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Here we go with yet another from the Memphis in May, Beale Street Music Festival. This was captured near the Budweiser Stage at the very beginning of the festival, the band playing was Medeski, Martin & Wood, sort of an advant-jazz-rock group that seems to attract an element of modern day hippie such as you might have seen at Grateful Dead concerts over the past half-century, as well as many other sorts of music fans.
This photograph, however, is concentrated on one of the aforementioned hippies, the man whose arms and legs and body are "akimbo".
I used to be quite a Grateful Dead fan, not so much that I followed the band from city to city and waited for a miracle outside concert venues in unwashed clothes smelling thickly of patchouli, but enough so I knew the scene and could identify with those folks and didn't mind partaking in some of the more illicit parts of the sub-culture, if you will.
So, what this young man is doing (and actually the young lady in front of him, as well) is known as "floating" a manner of dance done by folks such as this. It is more a sort of dancing to undanceable music, really. Not that you couldn't dance to the Dead's music - some is definitely danceable. A lot of it, though, not so much. So, the hippies invented this brand of "floating". Probably shortly after they first dropped LSD during one of the Dead's many concerts.
I kind of caught this guy mid-float. This position makes me think of the word "akimbo".
Note that most of the other folks around him are giving him plenty of room to move. Or maybe they don't like the odor of patchouli...
This was shot on the first day of the music festival, before I braved embarrassment and smuggled my Nikon in. It was shot with an Olympus 8080WZ, in it's type of RAW file (.orf). It is excruciatingly slow to shoot in RAW on this little camera as it takes forever to save the file - and you cannot do anything else while it is saving. However, it did afford me the ability to work with the white balance and all that, and converting to b&w seems a little better with that RAW file. At least, this one turned out technically a little better than many I have done with the Nikon, I think. That is probably my extreme talent with PS showing through.
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