Spring Fling Reflection

Spring Fling Reflection

When it comes down to it, most street fairs seem to be similar. There's an area/street for vendors, a few fully equipped stages for bands/musicians, an area/street where you find all of the food vendors, smaller performance areas for local organizations, maybe some amusement rides and games for the kids, and a lot of people milling around. Yet, each one is different in some way. Those difference can inform you about the community that is presenting the event. Some street fairs are subdued. Others are rowdy. Some cater to more urban communities, while others serve more rural communities. Some are artsy, others mundane. One thing they all have in common is that is a time for those communities to come together and reacquaint themselves with each other.

Spartanburg's Spring Fling has been a nice, friendly event the past several years that I've visited it. The attendance has been quite good each year, even when the weather hasn't been the best. There has been a lot of things to see and do, plus there is almost always something new each year.

The photograph above is of a vendor's tent reflection in the black/green marble facade of a classic old building downtown. While it is a Spring Fling vendor's tent, it could be a vendor's tent almost anywhere else. Yet, I really could only get this particular shot in Spartanburg because that is where this beautiful old facade is located.

I like reflections. They can be so many different things.

Keep your fingers crossed for good weather tomorrow. If it stays nice, I should have something kind of different to show off next week. I'm excited about it. Here's a hint ... "I feel the need. The need for speed!"

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Lunch

Lunch at Groucho's

During Spring Fling we at lunch at Groucho's Deli. Groucho's is a local sandwich shop right on one of the corners of a main intersection downtown. The sandwiches were good, the service was great. It's a very casual kind of place. Kid's can draw on the walls with crayons if they want. All in all Groucho's is a nice place for a quick sandwich and to escape the mid-day heat.

I saw these bills and the menu and immediately thought they made an interesting picture together. Something different, but it's good to be different sometimes. Pixils are free after all.

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Spartan Photo Center

Spartan Photo Center had a couple of tents at Spring Fling. They were selling framed prints, some small photography items, and they were also making digital photography caricatures of people. Additionally, they were handing out our fliers for the Spartanburg Photography Guild meeting tomorrow night. Which reminds me .. the meeting is tomorrow night, Thursday, May 6, from 6-8 pm, at Spartan Photo Center across from Spartanburg's Chapman Cultural Center.

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Smile!

Clydesdale Smile

Spartanburg's Spring Fling was once again a fun event. The day was overcast and we did have some showers in the afternoon. However, there was still a lot to do. I did get to see the Budweiser Clydesdales pull their wagon. That was actually when it started to rain, and because of it the horses were packed up and left the festival early after their lap around the block. One of the lead horses seemed to have the whole posing for cameras thing down. He was smiling all of the time when someone pointed a camera at him.


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Weekly Fling

Yeah, it has been slow around here lately. We did go out to Converse College a few days ago. However, I didn't get any photographs that I particularly liked. That does happen occasionally. Sometimes the photography clicks, and sometimes it doesn't. Kind of like Life, I suppose. So long as you keep working at it, you are ahead of the game. It wasn't anything to do with Converse's campus, which is quite lovely. I simply didn't get the best images that I wanted. Of course, that just means that I'll have to go back and try again.

This weekend is Spartanburg's annual Spring Fling event. It is the city's spring street fair. Rides, street performances, stage performances, artists, musicians, vendors, etc. There is usually a lot going on and some fun for everyone. This year I'll be helping the Spartanburg Photography Guild hand out fliers for our "Meeting and Greet" kick-off next week. We'll be at the Spartan Photo Center tents on and off throughout the day tomorrow. Other times we will be wondering around to enjoy the festivities.

Spring Fling runs from Friday evening through to Sunday afternoon.

Come on out if you are in the area.

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Spring Fling 2009

DiscConnected Frisbee Dogs

We went out to Spring Fling on Sunday. One of the shows we watched was the DiscConnected Frisbee Dogs demonstration. It was a lot of fun. My son especially enjoyed it. The dog in the photograph above was rescued when it was a puppy. It had been so badly abused that it still has two metal rods in one of it's back legs. I don't know about you, but I couldn't jump like that right now and I don't have any metal rods in my legs. After the show, my son wanted to get his picture taken with this particular dog. I don't have the photograph at the moment as my wife was with him at the time and used his camera. I had wandered off to see some other parts of the festival.

I will be posting more photographs from the festival throughout the week.

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