Sunday, March 29, 2009

Hare Krishna Festival of Colors

Every year the Hare Krishna temple in Spanish Fork has a Festival of Colors, to welcome in the spring. It is the most widely attended event at the temple.
(Yeah, it was way bigger than Llama Fest, and a million times bigger than India Fest.)
I've been dying to go for ages, since I saw pictures from Brooke, Kaylie, Katie, Kendra, and Claire last year. This year was a blast!
You pay a few dollars for a bag or two of colored powder, and at the end of the count down, you go crazy.

Before


During


Travis took all the rad pictures that are off the whole event.
I took the pictures of people. Sweet no?


Emily
Paige

Lauren
Becky

Travis

Addie
David

A lot of these pictures are of my friends, but more are not.
We took over 400 photos, and most were of random people for a project that Travis is working on.
He would stop them and be like, "Excuse me, I'm trying to take portraits of people at Color Fest" and they'd walk away before he'd finished.
Apparently, I have found my calling in life. "Can I take your picture?" I'd ask, holding up a camera.
People don't want an explanation.
"Yeah, tag me on facebook!" they'd yell.
Okay. Because I know who you are.




Romy


Good thing that stuff was edible. I had so much in my mouth and nose, all our tongues were pink.


Sarah
Henry
Sean

Sophie
Maude


Kathryn
Ryan
Towards the end the powder had gotten so sparse that people were rolling on the ground, trying to pick up color.
These are Lauren's brothers.

After

4 comments:

Lisa said...

I LOVE ALL THESE PICS.
WOOOHOOO~~~!!!

Polly said...

I think it is funny at the beginning of your post several people are on their phones, including your friends. Let it ring (unless it is your mom). Also, looks disgusting, I could never go to that event, it is more then I could handle. Who had the lucky car you climbed into at the end?

travis pitcher said...

the car was mine, and fortunately we dusted off before we got in so it didn't make really any mess. Becky, you did a great job at taking other people's pictures. thank you.
the best part was that i knew all of the words to all their songs.

Paige said...

I do not appreciate unflattering pictures being posted all over the internet. For example, photo #1. Come on!