SteemitPhotoChallenge 12 Entry - Art Mob Downtown

This is from our Main Street Art Festival that happens every spring in Fort Worth, they shut down traffic for several streets and all kinds of artists from everywhere in the country come to set up their tents and displays. This event takes so many volunteers to make it work, we do it even battling through wind storms and floods and it's amazing. For four days the city is stampeded with mobs trying to see everything they can. If you're a local, you want to go. If you're from a state or two over, you also want to go. I grew up with several serious artist in my family, so this was like another Home.

There's free concerts on several stages the whole time with a full schedule lined up as well as roaming performers going through the streets.
Whenever I still lived in the metroplex I always wanted to spend as many days there as I could. I'd pack my lunch(because all the festival food is expensive as fudge) walk back and forth from one stage to another trying to see as many shows as I possibly could (without making a clone of myself to be at all 3 stages) then go roam to gawk at the artwork whenever my legs needed stretching and I got restless.

For some reason though I usually can't stand crowds, I also really love this: moving through the pack, together in a dance of excitement as we all explore as much of the beauty that we can take in, absorbing it like a sponge as fast as we can.
The spirit is amazing, energy that's not just angry and rushed but enjoyment we all share together.

Of course the big name headliners are always the last two slots of Saturday and Sunday
night, which means you have to leave in the middle of them in order to catch the last bus home.

Second picture was after dark and the big concerts started, so turning it into black and white wouldn't work for still showing it as the city very well. But I still like it, people were drinking and dancing and the kids were running around playing. Yes, we had all climbed up where you usually don't go on normal days, for a better view and since it was so packed down below.

Pictures taken with an Apple iPhone 4S
1/196s ƒ/2.4 ISO50 4.28mm is the info as my steemimg.com link tells me :)

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