Matsuri Festival Sydney is a Japanese festival held every year to celebrate Japanese culture and cross cultural friendship between the Japanese community and Local community. This event was founded back in 2006, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Japan and Australia’s friendship. Since then, Sydney’s Japanese community have been working hard to host a traditional style Matsuri, making this event a Summer staple for Sydney community.
When
Saturday, 7th December
Time
11:30 am ~ 7:30 pm
Where
Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour, Sydney
We attended this event and enjoyed taking a few photographs of some of the colourful attendees and drank some nice sake.
This is last of a series of articles featuring the Voigtländer Nokton 40mm 1:1.2 lens.
For more information on the Nokton 40mm lens, check out my initial impressions article and other articles in the series:
Chris Tham is a co-founder of Visual Voyager Pty Ltd, the Principal Voigtländer Ambassador for Mainline Photographics and a Workshop Instructor for Mainline Photo Academy.
She brings over 35 years of experience as a photographer to her role, starting with a Yashica rangefinder belonging to her dad, joining the Photography Club in school, and developing her own photos.
More recently, Chris has been taking photos during her travels, and as a result has experienced some of the most interesting places in the world.
Chris focuses on nature, street, and urban architecture subjects in her photography.