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While I was on Oceanside pier shooting surfers three groups came down for photos – 2 girls in white dresses, one in a purple dress and this one in a blue/turquoise dress.  Quinceanera is the celebration of the coming of age of a girl when she reaches her 15th birthday and is usually celebrated with as much style as the family can afford.  The dresses were all fabulous and the boys were dressed in either in navy uniforms or in traditional long pin-striped jackets with black and white shoes. This was shot over the shoulder of the professional so the pose is not quite as I would have liked, but it’s the best of the few I was able to shoot.  It was taken with my Sony a350 with the 70-300 mm lens I was using for the surfers; then processed in Aperture, Photoshop and Topaz as usual.  Other shots from California this Christmas appear on my flickr here.  DSC09774