Tag Archives: fiesta

Funeral For A Sardine

Yet another strange Spanish custom built around their obsession with death and re-birth is the Burial Of The Sardine. This weird funeral event takes place on Ash Wednesday and like most Spanish festivals it’s roots are deeply religious. Even though I’m an atheist I still find all  religions and all their customs a great source of imagery. [...]

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Correfocs: Fireworks at Ground Level

The process of updating the website goes on with the addition of a gallery of images from the “Correfocs”. To those of you viewing from the UK you’ll realise that this sort of party activity would never be allowed to happen on a British street. Things are very different here and this is one event that I [...]

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Fallas at 20th of a Second

Fallas in Valencia is well and truly underway and yesterday thousands of falleras paraded through the city dressed in their traditional costumes. In photographic terms, once you’ve seen one ornate dress you’ve seen them all and it was a struggle to produce an image that showed off the colour and excitement of the event without appearing too static. [...]

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Running Away From The Bulls: Benidorm, Nov 2010

 

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