{"id":2663,"date":"2016-07-04T20:02:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apogeephoto.com\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2019-02-08T23:48:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T23:48:47","slug":"photographing-americans-on-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apogeephoto.com\/photographing-americans-on-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing Americans on Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrate an inside look at Americans on Parade<\/a> with photographer Jim Austin. After photographing parades for 7 years, he has a few tips for capturing Independence Day and takes us inside the oldest parade in the U.S.A., as well as to other unique American parades.<\/p>\n

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Everybody loves a parade! Raise your camera to catch the passing militia and you may inhale the scent of horses, or smell the acrid tang of smoke from black powder musket fire on a cobble-stoned main street. Gazing down the street, you may see a juggler pedaling on a unicycle. As drum and bugle corps pass before your eyes, you might feel the booming of bass drum in your chest. Perhaps tears well up in your eyes as you watch veterans march down the middle of the road, marching in step to the rhythmic strains of a John Philip Sousa<\/em> tune.<\/em> Believe it or not, you are in America, watching an all-American parade.<\/p>\n

Words do not capture the emotions of a parade. American parades, old or new, long or short, celebrating freedom or remembering past glory\u2015each of these events offer beautiful scenes for your photography. Capturing Americans on parade will challenge your composition skills, timing, and portraiture style.<\/p>\n

The oldest parade in America does indeed have horses, musket fire and fife and drum music. It’s in Bristol, Rhode Island. Since 1785, the Town of Bristol has hosted the oldest continuous Independence Day party in America, so this July 4th<\/sup> marks the 227th<\/sup> parade.<\/p>\n