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by LevT

Comment by Pretzel:
One of my top 3, nice to see it up here in the top 10! Congrats

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Comment by grahamgator:
Great street photography, although very sad. (voted earlier)

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Comment by lei_73:
different needs? :-)
Nice catch, great composition!

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Comment by MaryO:
So many things to think about here. Just ... a fascinating capture of a moment.

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Comment by tnun:
hard to know where to begin. these were not, at the moment, a happy people. even the pinatas had a grimly festive, grimly commercial, grimly barbiedollkardashian aspect. originally, I had thought, the pinata was a playful even whimsical creation ...

did you come out completely unscathed?

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Comment by mitalapo:
great play of figures. great play of backgrounds.

hope you accept a balloon

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Comment by Pretzel:
Came back to bump my vote up on this one. One of the best in this challenge, IMO, just because of the stories that can be told just by looking at the pic from slightly different perspectives.

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Comment by LevT:
Maria, thank you for your comment. That dichotomy was exactly the point of the essay, I am glad that you felt it, too. The tradition of having kids beat the crap out of these big colorful figurines at birthday parties is in itself a bit creepy to me, but at least I expected some light-hearted atmosphere... but there was not much of that. Business as usual

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Comment by 2mccs:
I didn't know such places existed. I am caught between two different stories. The thousands of colored paper items are amazing. Then, the people. Some how there is an odd dichotomy between the people and the brightly colored things. It's as if the two should be in different essays. Makes the entirety very fascinating.

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Comment by jagar:
Very nice street shot, we live in a contrasted world.