San Francisco Carnaval 2009

I added some Carnaval Pictures to my much neglected travel/hobby/whatever site. They're just for fun but I thought folks might like to take a look. Note the pregnant gal (pictured here) and the photographer with a Rollei TLR. I'd like to get one - I have a Mamiya TLR (a C330) which is a giant tank of a camera and while it produces wonderful shots the Rollei's just so tiny and cute... and expensive, unfortunately.

If anybody's wondering why we have Carnaval in May, when everybody else has it earlier in the year (just before Ash Wednesday - same thing as Mardi Gras, it's just a regional naming thing) - it's too damn cold in San Francisco to do it any earlier.