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Celebration

Sunset Performer
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Getting Ready

A body painter puts on a fresh face to show potential customers during Fantasy Fest in Key West.
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Trick or Treat

Halloween sure can bring out the creativity in us.
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Twas the night before

Key West knows how to decorate.
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Curry Mansion

Always decorated for all holiday, it was built as a private home in 1869 and now a beautiful bed and breakfast in Key West.
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Words were hard to come by

I started typing a caption a few times but deleted them because any attempt at explanation just doesn't come out right. Let me just say on a normal day, Key West is difficult to explain but Fantasy Fest week makes words impossible.
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Wisconsin State Fair

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Independence Day

Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America. Wikipedia
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Fantasy Fest

Face painted and costumed for the Key West Fantasy Fest parade
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Parade Painted

Face painted and costumed for the Key West Fantasy Fest parade
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Parade Happy

Face painted and ready for the Key West Fantasy Fest parade
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Parade Feathered

Painted and costumed in the Key West Fantasy Fest parade
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Dressed and ready

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Fantasy Fest

Walking around with a camera during Key West Fantasy Fest provides all kinds of interesting things to shoot especially the people wearing paint. Body painters from all over the country come to town for the 10 day festival where people pay thousands of dollars to be painted. Then they stroll up and down Duval Street showing off their mobile art. This lady chose paint colors that go perfect on her.
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Face Art

During Fantasy Fest in Key West it's easy to come across painted people who are eager to have their photo taken.
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Memorial Day 2024

An organization named Follow the Flag suspended this between 2 sandstone peaks in Snow Canyon State Park in Ivins Utah.The photo was taken with the setting sun directly behind it. The flag measures 150' by 78', is a total of 11,800 square feet and weighs over 400 pounds.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Key West cigar lady
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Dantes at Christmas

Decorated for Christmas, Dantes of Key West
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Christmas Harbor

Key West harbor.... as unlikely as it would be, snow would be a pretty addition to this photo.
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Real Fish

Fantasy Fest costume Key West
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Getting Ready

Each year at the end of October Key West welcomes Fantasy Fest. Trying to stay with the annual theme, painters decorate people as part of the festivities.
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Eye Catching

Fantasy Fest ready
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Body Painting

In preparation for Fantasy Fest in Key West
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Merry Christmas

Says the flamingo
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Fantasy Fest Model

This gentleman was a model for a body painting studio. He was painted differently every time I saw him during the week long festival.
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Merry Christmas

This tree was in the lobby of the Curry Mansion in Key West.
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Sunset Pier Key West

Sunset pier is a perfect spot on the water to watch sunsets while listening to live music.
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Fantasy Fest Week

A celebration full of creativity and fun.
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Wisconsin State Fair

Every year in August fairgoers buy over 400,000 creampuffs.
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Festive Face Painting

Fantasy Fest primed
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More Faces

Popped into a Fantasy Fest painting shop and found a couple getting ready for a Key West Duval stroll. They were more than happy to let me take their picture.
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Extreme face art

Went streetwalking yesterday looking for more creative Fantasy Fest face painting and came upon this guy. It is a combination of paint, hair, contacts and skin prosthetics all combined in a great mix of colors.
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Fantasy Fest

10 days of color and imagination which for a camera guy equates to a "target rich environment" in Key West.
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Parade Ready

In costume for a Fantasy Fest float
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Happy Halloween

Roadside WI Halloween
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We Get Ready

The group forms up for photos before the Friday "Locals Parade" during Fantasy Fest in Key West. Believe it or not, there really is a theme.
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Triplets

Fantasy Fest Key West
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Red Head

Interesting Fantasy Fest paint job
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Fantasy Fest – Key West

He is on a float from Tampa with a group called F-Troop. I asked what they are and was told it was a mens club that travel around the country having fun while raising huge amounts of money for charity.
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Be Afraid

If you are not into body painting, some just have their faces painted which is great. Fantasy Fest attracts painters from all over the USA for this event.
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Sea Battle

An annual event in Key West - Conch Republic Navy vs US Coast Guard
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Feathery Fantasy Fest Friends

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Halloween yard art

Wisconsin
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Fantasy Fest

The look I got when I asked her if he had his face painted.
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Face Painting

Fantasy Fest
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We Are Parade!

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Painted Parade Viewers

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At Parade End

The parade ended and maybe 1/2 hour later this lone man is, I think waiting for it to come by again.
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Key West Christmas Decorating

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Sunset Performer

Mallory Square Sunset Celebration
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Fantasy Fest Face Painting

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Fantasy Fest

Key West
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Conch Republic Days

Key West bed races