Brad Templeton's Photography
Shows

Shows

Package tours often go to various shows and dinner shows. They are actually fairly entertaining, if not always entirely authentic. As a plus, they don't care if you bring in a tripod and photograph, so I did, and got some great shots of the acrobats.

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All the staff on the cruise ship were also entertainers who did a show.
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Tang dinner show. Not entirely authentic but interesting costumes
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I ready to shoot the arrival of the Emperor. Light is low so he's blurred
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These women kept these plates spinning for their whole act, doing all sorts of strange things.
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Invertebrate humans
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Could not capture the whole tableau in my lens, but it was work to put together and take apart
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Members of our tour group are invited on stage to Hula
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For some odd reason, the Tang Emperor and his Empress get up and dance for their subjects.

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