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Carnaval San Francisco
2008 Awards & Special Recognition

Sometime around the beginning of 2009, Yahoo's #1 foto site, flickr.com  took a page from google's youtube.com playbook and allowed embedding of images and often slideshows on other websites by default. Prior to this we had only used our own, RSS feeds from flickr or well-labeled Creative Commons content.
This is a wiki mashup platform chosen by us for the ease with which we can share the incredible Carnaval content from these two leading content generators. Yes, we admit Carnaval.com did get too big and sprawling for many and hard to maintain for us but it will still remain the star.

Flickr AWARDS for 2008 Parade

 


Congratulations to pikabon
with the most "most interesting" pics on page One for the search terms "Carnaval + San + Francisco + 2008"
Pikabon placed 7 in the top 25 from a pool of 5,983 results. Also placing more than a single foto were davidyuweb and Super G. Special acknowledgment to agi500 with the #1 B&W Mission statement as well as to the 2007 winner shapeshift [11 of 25] who managed to place even though he did not upload till March 2009.
The Carnaval.com family of annual festival websites [sfmission.com, carnavalcity.com, carnivalcities.com & flickr/aforum] is pleased to buy pikabon a flickr pro account and send a small token of our esteem for this work promoting the Spirit of Carnaval...... Joy in the present!

--- C M Collins publisher. May 24, 2009


On March 22, 2008 We found 5,650 results matching carnaval and San and Francisco and 2008. This is more than double the 2,733 posted in 2007 and does not include the many who did not use these key "terms" in their posting.  Photographers enjoyed beautiful natural lighting during the first couple of hours of the 2008 Carnaval. As we enter the final rounds of flickr rankings we must salute Pikabon.

We were very impressed to find that 5 of the top 25 "Most interesting"  of the  5,650 results matching the 4 terms

"Carnaval", "San", "Francisco", & "2008"

were by Pikabon

Granted there is a lot of yet to come action that translates into effective voting during the building to the Grand Parade in the SF Mission District on Sunday morning May 24, 2009.

Picabon

Surprisingly Picabon, does not have a flickr pro account but she does specialize in devoting her flickr presence to Carnaval San Francisco
latinamericanworkout.com
hotpinkfeathers.com/
carnaval.com/sf08/queen
Carrnaval.com/sf08/king


Grupo Samba Rio by pikabon Grupo Samba Rio by pikabon
Samba Rio dancers did a sizzling debut. The Samba Rio group led by one of Brazil's greatest percussionists, Mestre Jorge Alabe continues to expand its reputation as one of the premier samba school in the SF Bay Area
Carnaval 2008 by pikabon Hot Pink Feathers by pikabon
Former King Jaime Martinez of Latin American Workout and one of his many attendants during a record 4 revolutions on the parade circuit Supporting their King Everett and Queen Kellita, Hot Pink Feathers wowed the crowd with standout song, music, dance and scintillating costumes

Enchantment

"When devils, wizards or jugglers deceive the sight they are said to cast glamour over the eyes of the spectator."

---Alan Ramsay [1721]

"Enchantment is an ascendancy of the soul, a condition that allows us to connect, for the most part lovingly and intimately, with the world we inhabit and the people who make up our families and communities....Enchantment is often colored by at least soft hues of absurdity, which is only a sign of its saving distance from excessive rationality....Deep in enchantment is the experience of being lured into reverie, dreamland, by the musical charms of the enchanter."

---Thomas Moore; The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life

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