Chinese New Year Celebration

Today I went to Chinatown in London with a friend and his family. Last year was quite a fun celebration, although tiring. This year? Well, it looks like I'm going to be missing next year's. There's just too many people!

My recommendation: Go to Chinatown anytime during Chinese New Year except for the last day of the celebration, unless you REALLY want to see the performances and the dragon dancing (while constantly being squashed by the amount of people there).

I didn't want to end the day on a sour note so decided to drop by the British Museum. Here are photos from today, most of them taken using the DA 35 2.4:

Got off at Picadilly Circus



Obligatory "Underground Exit" shot



Some nice people by the "Dragon Rowing Boat"



Okay, I am not sure why this guy was holding that piece of bread for so long. Must be warm!



Right in the thick of it



A very tight crop here. Gotta love the kid's expression.



Chinese girl showing her friend the festivities using her white Samsung Galaxy S II via Skype



My friend taking a photo of me taking a photo of him. He's using a Tamron 17-35 2.8-4.5.



She had that frown 50 meters away from me. I wonder what happened.



Moving on to the next destination: Obligatory Tourist type shot within Tottenham Court Road station.



British Museum



Photo of Lion



A different take on the Lion



On my way home



Thank you for looking! I was really hammered by the time I got home.

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Thanks for posting these. Nothing really stands out on it's own (love the smiling child shot though) but as a series it's interesting and I enjoyed looking through them and reading the narrative.

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I agree, it was really hectic at Chinatown, in effect it rid me of any enthusiasm. I did see another Pentax user (the only other one aside from us) and she was using the Stormtrooper (white K-r!).

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your focusing seems a bit off in all of the images here, I would of expected to see more sharper images. Take the little girl smiling for instance the sleeve of her coat seems about the only thing in the whole shot to be slightly better focused. in all of them they are just to soft and slightly blurred for my liking. You need to either use a different aperture or faster shutter speed, or a combination of both. If that fails your lens is not focusing correctly.

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Thanks for the feedback. I will take it all into consideration and do some tests.

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