15 years' birthday is very important for cuban young girls. They organize a great fiesta and obviously photo sessions are made in fanciest (if possible) places to remember the day when they were the princess of the day.
So, as the photographer of the family, I had to cover the event... (October 2004, Havana)
I would like to thanks Mabel-The-Princess-of-the-Day for her patience and keeping smiling between photographer', mother' and aunts' instructions out of the camera field...and the heat of Cuba (we were not disturbed by tropical rainstorm who can come to trouble the fiesta at this season

Pictures are scans from fujichrome velvia slides exept the serie with "El caballero de Paris" taken with my first digital camera (Minolta Dimage Z1)