Posted March 31st, 2019
Aurora Colour War 2019
Pentax K-1, SMC Pentax DA* 60-250mm f/4 ED [IF] SDM @ 60mm, 1/640 s @ f/10, ISO 400
Eyes of a Young Warrior
The Aurora Colour War has become a perennial favourite event to photograph at the annual Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous in Whitehorse. Fashioned after India’s Holi Festival of Colours, it involves participants throwing coloured corn starch from packets into the air and at one another. The action is chaotic and it is difficult to have the camera pointed at the right spot at the right time to catch the best of it in tightly framed shots, so I generally shoot relatively wide and attempt to capture great crowd scenes. I wish I had been zoomed in on the child staring into the camera, but I had to crop heavily to achieve the composition you see here.