Balboa Island Parade

June 7, 2015 Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California has a yearly parade with an interesting variety of entrants.  The parade runs for 3 whole blocks.  There was a WWII entry that included vehicles, soldiers in original uniforms and a MacArthur impersonator down to the corn cob pipe.  There were ten couples dressed in 40s outfits doing the jitterbug.  These were two of the dancers.  Balboa Island has a separate identity from the balance of Newport and is such a small community that this parade is enthusiastically entered and racously received.  A friend is the Photo Editor of the Newport Independent and he took me with him as he took photos.  As a result we were inside the barriers and had free rein to photograph as long as we did not hold up the parade. 

Nikon D800  ISO640  1/1600  f/10  RAW White Balance Auto  Nikkor 24-120mm  55mm  Lest you think my settings don't make sense, the day was intermittantly cloudy and sunny.  I changed settings on the fly either with shutter speed or f/stop without taking my eye off the view finder.  Processed in LightroomCC2015, PhotoshopCC2014, and TK. 

Thank you for your feedback.