I attended New York’s Village Halloween Parade last night for the first time. Like any other large New York event, the crowd was huge. The literature says that two million people attend the event. I was not in a really good position to take pictures and there was nothing mind blowing as far as costumes. Typical stuff: a person dressed as an Ipod, lots of light sabers, and Bat Man came in all shapes and sizes.
The one picture I will share that is pretty scary is this –
It’s pretty scary that someone held onto that sign for this long.
I will say that the digital camera has forever changed large public events. The most common thing to see now is hundreds of arms extended in the air with digital cameras in hand. Any public event is now a sea of Sony, Canon, and Pentax. When film cameras ruled the world, people put much more thought into picture taking. Now it’s stretch and shoot, and shoot, and shoot, and shoot. So now it’s hard not to get a picture of someone else taking a picture.
It truly is a point and shoot world.