In Guyana, one of the festivities marking the occasion of Republic Day is Mashramani, the word being derived from one of the many native Amerindian languages, meaning roughly “celebration after a job well done”, the actual celebrations are more African in origin celebrating the end of the harvest time. As part of the Mashramani Celebrations the various schools have entries into the Children’s Float and Costume Competition, the parade is usually held the Saturday before the main National festivities.
I took some photos that day and have uploaded them to the site, below is a checkerboard of photos from that collection, please click on it to go to the collection for the full set.
With any luck today will be sunny and I will be ably to get a nice set of photos from today’s National Mashramani Float Parade.
Happy Mashramani to all Guyanese, a Happy Republic Day, and to the rest of the world, Happy Wednesday 🙂
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Very nicely put together. Happy Republic Day/Mashramani.
Thanks Nik! Hope its a good day (photographically)
What spectacular color in each one. I like the collage composition. Did you choose the composition or did your software select them for you?
Thanks Martina, I did the selection myself, I picked what I thought were the 25 most eye-catching of the 82 that I uploaded to the gallery 🙂 I hope you looked at the gallery, I couldn’t put all the nice ones in the checkerboard collage 🙂
I did look at the entire gallery, they are all wonderful, it must have been hard to choose. I love this collage, but not as much as those skies.
Thanks Martina, I have a strange way of choosing, I just browse the thumbnails and whatever gets my fancy I tag it for export, then I checked to see if I had 25, if not I went back tagging a few more 🙂
I like the idea of checkerboard collage for showing the faces..I might borrow this idea from you sometime 😉
Looks like the kids had fun.
Thanks Sasi, go right ahead, I’m sure it wasn’t an original idea of mine 🙂
The kids really had fun, the weather was a little cooler than normal, so they weren’t as heated as the adults parade yesterday 🙂
beautiful! excellent people shots – how lovely. all that colour and brightness – everyone sure is enjoying themselves….great collage Mike.
Thanks Sheila, I had a good time with the children’s parade, the adult’s own on Wednesday was a different story, but hopefully I got some that you’ll enjoy 🙂 Look out for them soon.
these are wonderful shots – all very colorful and bright! i’m off to look at the rest in the gallery!
Thanks Joseph, I hope you like them!
I love the vibrant colors, but also the expressions and the beauty in the individual faces. What a fun event to photograph!
Thanks Jolene, it was fun, although the sun was cruel 🙂
What a brilliant vibrant colourful festival! Photographic gold Michael!
Thanks David (Sobik), I like that phrase!!
this year mash was so fun
Thanks for dropping by and checking the page out Aneesa!