Daruma Festival Photos

These pictures were taken at the 20th Annual West Valley Japanese-American Citizens League Daruma Festival in San Jose, CA on 16 August 1997. (What's a Daruma?)

These pages serve two purposes: to show you what the festival was like, and

to talk about the picture-taking experience. All the photos have been cropped and reduced in Adobe Photoshop, and enhanced with the Intellihance plug-in. See also some thoughts about the software that comes with the camera.

The first things that caught my eye were a banner that was attached to one of the booths, and a daruma that appeared to have been made of some fuzzy material.

Here's a view of the hospitality booth.

I took a picture of the people in the hospitality booth. They were in deep shadow, but Intellihance was able to bring out detail even though the colors are washed out:

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