The Munchkin's Notebook

It was a chilly day for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. This year they placed caution tape down each side of the street, to keep people from running into the street and this year the floats were not allowed to toss candy into the crowd.  The parade started at noon and wasn’t even half way done by 1:30 when I left.  The parade wasn’t very lively, they needed more music, excitement or something, though I bet the overcast chilly day didn’t help.   The day was very overcast and gray.  However I did get some OK shots.  I shot at an ISO of 200 on aperture priority set at 9.0f.   All the shot were taken from a sitting position on the cold hard curb.  You can see all the pictures here " St. Patrick's Day Parade "

Every year there is a Chinese New Year Parade in DC’s China town; sadly, the parade is slowly deteriorating and becoming smaller and smaller.  Also people are just not being courteous, they move out into the street in front of the parade marchers and the security isn’t keeping the parade watchers on the sidewalk.  It is also becoming more and more difficult, to take pictures politely without having people with their phone and iPads jumping in front of me.  So I think this was my last year photographing the Chinese New Year Parade.  I did get a few nice shots of the dragon dancers.  I shot at ISO 200 at F10 with a 1/160s shutter. You can see all the parade pictures here.