I recently created a new gallery of stock photos of the Swabian-Alemannic-Fastnacht (Carneval) in Lucerne. The image gallery includes portraits and close up's of traditional masks and costumes during the Fastnacht celebrations.
Fastnacht or also called Fasnacht, is a old tradition in Southern Germany and Switzerland when the reign of bad spirits of the cold and grim winter period is over and these spirits are symbolically being hunted down and expelled. By the end of winter, each year around January and February, people dress up as demons, witches, earthly spirits and dreadful animals to enact this scene of symbolic expulsion. What happens in fact is an expulsion of the winter season that symbolises death, silence and destruction.
Arctic Landscape in Svalbard, Norway
Panoramic Arctic Landscape in Svalbard, Norway
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