Unlike the previous image of the La Katrina Parade in San Miguel on the eve of The Day of The Dead, this one was made with a shutter speed nearly a half second faster. Using the same panning technique, it allowed me to show more detail, yet still retain the feeling of movement. The image is full of electronic “noise” which greatly adds to the expression here. It creates an impressionistic context for the subject, making it seem less real and more painterly. The Katrina’s wore mesh veils over their painted, skull-like, faces and I was able to retain part of that pattern in this image here as well. There are still many photographers who will go to great lengths to eliminate electronic noise from their images. In this case, they would be shortchanging themselves by doing so. The vibration, noise, blur, and mesh, along with a close-up vantage point of an incongruous subject – a woman of great beauty painted as Death itself – work together to help tell the story of The Day of The Dead. She provides an eloquent example of death within life, and life within death.