Week 8: festive and happy

I took this picture during Long Beach Gay Pride festival . These palm trees really caught my eye , so I just had to take it . It made me feel festive, happy, and bright . I was getting really tired by the time I saw the palm trees , I was exhausted . But when I walked this direction I felt light and in a better mood . I absolutely loved how the sky was so dark in the background , you can't even see stars so it was a bery solid black in the background , then the lights of the palm trees to me , overpowered the lighting of the buildings in the background. If I were to light this on stage , I would use shin lights in color r360 just cause it's very natural to the eye , for some reason I can really picture the shins doing a good part to this lighting just cause the focus isn't specifically on center & I wouldn't want a even wash on the floor with any of the fresnels. Then in the perfect world, I would light multiple down light lekos in colors such as r56, r39,r23, and r89. I'm not sure how to represent the gradient affect , I was thinking if these lights were lit , I'd have different lights fade in and out at full in a time of 15, just to emphasize the color and intensity getting stronger or faint as they go on and off .