Chinese New Year Parade

Most of the pictures came out very badly because the "night" setting on the camera deals with darkness solely by taking a very long exposure. Which meant that of two hundred pictures I threw away all but sixty or so, and most of those sixty are not so much documentary photos as artsy impressionistic abstracts that I think I might like well enough.
I have noticed that there is a way to do truly manual settings, but they're not labelled in ways that mean anything to me (the old-fashioned regular f-stop numbers etc. are there, but navigation and setting are completely mysterious), so I haven't mastered that yet.

However, one of the Immortals stayed still long enough that I could catch a decent picture of her. She was bowing to the crowd.
( Immortal Woman He bestows her goodwill )