Tomioka Hachimangu Water Festival – 3
More photos from the great Mizukake Matsuri at Monzennakacho! The first few photos are of the many omikoshi teams representing different neighborhoods around the great shrine of Tomioka Hachimangu, the center of this festival. Along the route there are several two men teams of firefighters volunteering to give the omikoshi bearers a massive hose down, as you can see in the third photo. At this point most other photographers had wisely retreated to a safe distance but I am more like a shark sensing blood in the water, I throw all caution to the wind and charge in with camera blazing when I see something as interesting as this! Absolutely not my smartest move.
I moved closer to the great shrine and saw the first of the mobile swimming pool stations, where one of the omikoshi teams were met with a wall of water as a dozen people emptied buckets of it all over them, it was pretty impressive! And of course I had to move in closer, to check out the kids trying to fight back with their water guns, the cutest and bravest thing I ever saw! More photos to come in the final post on this fantastic festival. Enjoy!
This is what we should do here in Oklahoma! (It was over 100F/38C again today.) I see a determined photographer.
A wet and soaked photographer… (^-^;) Oklahoma Water Festival? Could be something big! (^-^)
So, when are we going to see you participate in a festival?
Beautiful pictures as always!
Thanks Marie! I prefer to be the fly on the wall – in this case the half drowned fly on the wall! (^-^;)
How do you protect your camera…?
In this case I did not, but a good start would be a plastic casing to cover everything except the front of the lens… Or at least a poncho to cover it from the front, sides, and top…. (+_+)
Favorite: the next-to-last picture. (And I loved the one before that, too.)
Thanks! Oh yes the little cuties! (^-^)
Hopefully the body you shot with is OK and the pics were worth it possibly not being OK! #3 is awesome, and 4/5 remind me of being told to have a shower cap handy for one’s camera. Not sure being dunked with a bucket of water will help in that case…
The pictures weren’t worth it but I hate being to precious about my camera gear, physical things break and I rather break them using them having them stolen or misplaced or dying of old age or something. So, taking the photos was worth it, even if it was only a small memory for myself. Next time I will get better protection! (^-^) Thanks for your kind comments!