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Crowds stream into Dupont Circle before the parade.

D.C. Pride, 2018

Dan Murano
June 17, 2018

Hint: If you click on the first image below, you can cycle through a pop-up gallery of the photos on the page.

Be sure to click through the gallery at the bottom of the page for additional photos. I wandered around quite a bit, so you might just see yourself here if you were there.

 

People stream off the subway before the parade.
The parade passes Dupont Circle, so it's a great place to wait.
Wardrobe choices are always part of the fun on Gay Pride Day.
A big bird on one of the floats.
A man on a float tosses out beads.
Spectators try to catch trinkets thrown from the floats.
A fun costume to wear on a swealtering day.
Catching trinkets thrown up to a balcony.
Soaker gunners aim for a balcony.
A man on a balcony fires back at soaker gunners.
Band members march in unison.
A player in one of the bands.
One of the many bands.
Pride always showcase multiple musician's groups.
D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Being shirtless and in briefs probably made the heat even more tolerable.
Conga time?
Girlfriend!
I can't imagine being under all this and in the sun for four hours or more.
Where there are musicians and music, there are also dancers.
It was a sweltering day and the parade went on for hours.
Being shirtless probably made the heat more tolerable.
When do we get to march?
Encountering friends.
Being entertained while getting a "do".
That's it, folks!
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Gay Pride

Comments

Technical notes: I had the camera's image stabilization turned off. I'm new to that feature and thought it might not work so well when most of the subjects were moving.  Would like to hear anyone's thoughts or expertise on this.

Camera was set on single point, back button autofocus. With the moving subjects, maybe I should have used continuous autofocus, but again, I'm only used to single point and did not want to experiment in this situation.

A few of the shots have a tiny bit of motion blur when magnified to 100%. The camera is set up for auto ISO, but I opted to adjust the ISO manually.

The camera's color settings were set on "natural. " These images were toned and resized from the in-camera jpeg files.

Mon, 06/18/2018 - 22:44

Great color saturation and photos look great.

Tue, 06/19/2018 - 13:02

Thank you, Tom!

Tue, 06/19/2018 - 16:20

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