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Front Street Lahaina

 Posted on November 20, 2017      by Jay Ahrend
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Jay Ahrend “Front Street Lahaina” 11/20/17

Front Street in Lahaina Town on Halloween night is one big party.  In fact it is the biggest holiday gathering of the year on Maui, if not in all of Hawaii.  This event has been called the “Mardi Gras of the Pacific” with many thousands of attendees wearing creative costumes.  The parade is organized in the usual laid-back Hawaiian fashion and is easily accessed by friends, family and photographers who intermingle with the participants.  This couple and their daughter “Alice”, not seen, were a colorful delight.  They were constantly being stopped by well wishers, many with cameras in hand.  They had just left one such encounter as I approached and were eager to move on, almost running me over.  As I backed up to keep them in frame, my retreat matched the speed of their advance. By chance only their faces remained in focus while their bodies and the surrounding area were blurred.  Earlier I had set the camera to aperture priority of f5.6 and the meter at dusk had adjusted the shutter speed to 1/6 of a second.  The result was that everything in the image shows movement by either the moving camera and slow shutter speed, the Mad Hatter’s exaggerated strides or the Queen of Hearts rustling her dress.  For me it’s a colorful and almost unrepeatable moment captured to represent the energy and spirit of this costumed party.
4 Comments for Front Street Lahaina

Russ Widstrand

Great energy and color in this one Jay.

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    Jay Ahrend

    Thanks Russ

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Blue Fier

Front Street is like “The Wild Wild West!”
and Bourbon Street combined.
Nice color and you captured the feeling.

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    Jay Ahrend

    Thanks Blue, It was a fun lively evening with a very enthusiastic crowd.

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