Mountain Visions: Corning Tower

Friday, May 23, 2008

A Day In Photos At The 2008 Albany Tulip Festival

This is always the flagship of Albany events throughout the year. Of course the last two years have had exceptional weather making the event even more sucessful.

Some photos of the day...

The Tulip Queen

The Queens Court

Aim as the organ grinders assstant (a position typically held by a monkey)

Spin Doctors in concert:

Some overhead shots of the crowd during the concert:

Happy Mother's Day Mom...Studying hard...Send more money for booze (I mean books)!!

Still Studying!!! I think I've got this college thing down now!!!

Concert crowd with Corning Tower in background

And a little unnecessary politics (although I agree with the cause to a degree)

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Sunday, May 13, 2007

The Albany Tulip Festival -A Celebration Of Albany's Dutch Heritage

What great weather for this often rained out festival. Perhaps Albany's biggest out door festival and it seems to rain every year.

For most of the weekend the sky was cloudless with warm temps. Aim and I are ridiculously sunburned for so early in May. A little wind always makes flower photography hard, so the weather wasn't perfect. At times it was downright windy. Believe me though, Mayor Jennings and the festival organizers weren't concerned with a little breeze blowing the tulips around. Some said it was the best weather in the festivals 50+ years.

Some photos below are from my two days of shooting at Washington Park, where the annual Tulip Festival is held, as well as around downtown Albany.

I won't bore you with details, other then to say, for a city that reached it's peak in the mid 1900's, Albany has tons of history. There are also tons great historical and modern architecture to keep a photographer busy.

Photos (click images to be taken to the larger files and captions):