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|| The Winners
Feature [ January, 2021 ]
The clip contest is judged by SportsShooter.com members. The following images are the winners for the month of January, 2021.
First Place: "House Float"
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| Matthew Hinton | Mardi Gras float artists Chelsea Kamm, center, and Joey Mercer, left, help construct a house float designed by Caroline Thomas for “Hire a Mardi Gras Artist” a project of the Krewe of Red Beans. The Krewe of House Floats is an initiative to decorate homes during the Carnival season because of the cancellation and postponement of parades and gatherings for Mardi Gras 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This house float celebrates local wildlife and is called “The Birds of Bulbancha.” Residents who live in Orleans Parish and donate to the Hire an Artist project are entered into the raffle to get one of the house floats and this float went to a raffle winner in the Fairgrounds neighborhood of New Orleans. The grassroots effort hopes to build 40 house floats for every $15,000 donated. The donations go towards supplies and hiring float artists, many who are out-of-work because of the cancellation of Mardi Gras. In addition to the three artists putting the float together many other artists helped sculpt and construct the birds and flowers for the float. Bulbancha is Choctaw word meaning “place of many tongues,” and was the name the indigenous people called the trading port in what is now New Orleans before the arrival of European colonists. The birds include a Great Egret, the centerpiece sculpture, and panels of a Great Blue Heron, Brown Pelican, Whooping Crane, and Roseate Spoonbill. Copyright: Matthew Hinton |
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