Mario Vargas' photos with the keyword: incense

Lima downtown is amazing, always full of surprises. Processions and parades happens frequently. The picture shows a young lady with Dominican order costume, burning incense, blowing air to maintain the fire and producing a lot of smoke.Taked in front of Santo Domingo´s church celebrating anniversary of San MArtin de Porres birth They walk back never giving their backs to the saint in procession, love to shot this ladies , in this case with panasonic, lumix , lf1

Sahumadoras is a group of ladies usually black with head cover , they come ahead and accompany a religious procession. They burn incense and sing religious songs. This shot was taked at San Francisco´s square at LIma donwntown. It´s a candid shot, love the visual contact but i confes that i´m very shy¡¡¡ specially when this contact happens