Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the dead) in Los Angeles

Jimbojack

It's been a while since I posted anything, but I'm working on updating my site so I'll post some new travel photos soon.

On the 1st of November I went to the Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the dead) festival at the Holywood Forever Cemetery.

It was a lot of fun, I dressed up as a skeleton which made it a bit difficult to take pictures (huge skeleton finger gloves), but I made up for it by scaring a lot of people :biggrin:

Here is some information about the festival

http://www.ladayofthedead.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead


Here are some photos











Grave of Johnny Ramone



Some altars


































You can't have a festival like this without at least one luchador




Traditional Aztec dancing






Various photos










Another dancing performance
















And finally here is an abstract photo of me wearing my costume in the crypt



I was originally planning on flying to Oaxaca for the festival, but I decided to go there next year. Instead, I went to this one and it was a lot better then I expected.

For those interested, I didn't have my tripod with me, so all photos are handheld using sigma 30 1.4, nikon 50 1.8, 17-55, 70-200 and a tokina 11-17 using a d300/d200

I hope you enjoy these photos, there are a few more on my site if anyone is interested

Tee Why

Yeah, it's definitely a good photo op, especially if you like night time shooting. I've been to the last prior two years IIRC.

nice shots.