Rehearsal for New Year Festival

Young students wear Burmese dress and perform traditional dance during rehearsal for the opening ceremony of Mandalay City Hall Thingyan Water Festival 2012 in Mandalay, Myanmar on 10 April 2012. Water Festival (Thingyan) is a festival to celebrate Burmese New Year, falls around mid-April (the Burmese month of Tagu). | Location ~ Mandalay, Myanmar | April 10 2012 | Notes ~ Even though tripod is a lit bit heavy to carry, it is useful when there's nothing to climb up to get high elevated shot. I hold up tripod in mid-air to extend high to get this shot. Canon EOS 7D, AT-X Tokina Fish-Eye 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 DX @ 10mm f/8 ISO 250 1/320