Misha - It really is cool to see the varied costumes and colors of the different cultures. It's also interesting when you also note that for as many bright, colorful costumes and fabrics, how many also go for very basic white or white and black. What's it all mean? I dunno ... I'm just the guy shooting photos. :) hehe I just wish the Seattle Center would use daylight balanced hot lots or at least have lights with the same color temp. Pain trying to figure out sometimes what the heck they were using for an event (yet another reason for me to get that Colormeter .. wooo hooo .... hehehehe). 'chelle - Thank you. Yea, there were fewer there because I wasn't paying close enough attention. That was the first time I'd ever shot with the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens. I kept looking at my histogram and marveling at how well it was capturing the light and missed that for the first 30-45 minutes my shutter speeds weren't up high enough. Most were in the 1/30 - 1/60th of a second range. That caused a high number of blurry shots of the dancers. And because I wasn't trying to capture the motion (like I did at the Fiestas Patrias), my technique was bad and they just don't look bad. :/ Really ticked at myself for that one since most of the start were the Aztecs and there were some potentially great shots there. Learned my lesson on that one. -=>Donald