David Griffin Photography

Nothing says small town ‘merica like a parade and right on the heels of Saturday’s Sip and Stroll event on Saturday night was Sunday afternoon’s 46th Annual Christmas Parade down Main Street in Maynard.   For a few minute it looked like I’d have the perfect light for the second half of the parade, but the clouds stayed — which was almost as good  (the best light is when the 4pm winter sun floods down Main Street on the parade’s return route… just magic).

For a pretty complete photographic journal of the event head over to: community.dmg-photography.com

Technical:  Canon 5D Mark II, mostly 70-200mm f/2.8L (a few 24-70 shots in there), handheld.   Minimally processed with Lightroom 4 (exposure tweaks, clarity +18, vibrance +25)

I was asked by my friends in the Maynard Business Alliance to take some pictures at their first Sip and Stroll event on Saturday evening, December 1st.   A light snow had fallen all day lending just the right amount of a wintery backdrop — but without the shoveling and snow piles!  By all accounts the event was a great success and my biggest issue was getting good photographs of some of the businesses because the crowds were too heavy at times and I just didn’t get to all of them (sorry!)

A larger gallery of the images can be found on my community site:  community.dmg-photography.com  (fyi, these are the same images posted on the MBA Facebook page, so if you saw them there, nothing new here…)

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Technical:  All photos taken with a Canon 5D Mark II, various lenses mounted on my Gitzo tripod.   Exposures, ISOs all varied widely and there are a few HDR images in here as well (they have the _enfuse suffix in the file name in case you are curious).  All images processed in Lightroom 4.