2012 Fremont Solstice Parade - Photos

We attended the annual Solstice Parade in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood yesterday. Famous for featuring naked bicycle riders at the beginning, the parade draws a huge crowd each year and also includes all sorts of whacky, political, musical and artistic acts...all merrily prancing, dancing, marching or jamming on by. 

I took my camera.

And yes, I took some pictures of naked bicycle riders, but you know what people? I am not posting them. OK one in my Photostream to show you what 99% of the people looked like. 

But moreover, I feel that if you have to cruise the Internet to find pictures of painted up naked people riding their bicycles in a street parade...you have too much time on your hands. Either go to the parade and see the spectacle yourself, or just find something better to do with your time. 

Below are a few shots I took, but more can be seen the top of my Photostream HERE.

Naked, Gay, Vietnam Taj...and Don't Tread On Me

As I like to do about once every quarter, the other day I checked in on my Flickr Photostream to see what were the 10 most viewed pictures of mine that people across the Internet were viewing.

 Most  were similar to quarters past. My closeup of detail on the Taj Mahal in India is by far and away the most looked at with more than 1,400 views.

After that it's a repeat from previous quarters with an aircraft carrier in South Carolina, the Don't Tread On Me flag, various pictures of Vietnam, the Beijing Olympic stadium and paraders from the 2009 Seattle Gay Pride festivities.

New to the top 10 and skyrocketing into place number eight in just about a month since I posted it is a picture of naked bicycle riders from the Fremont Solstice Parade in Seattle this year.

So, what does this tell us?

Well, there appears to be a massive appetite for close ups of the Taj Mahal. Who knew?

After that, for kicks I'll break it down this way this time...there seems to a pattern perhaps along political lines:

• On the left there are some free spirits seeking pictures of naked paraders and/or gay paraders and some travel shots of Asia.

• On the right there are some uptight and traditional people looking for aircraft carriers, the iconic "don't tread on me" flag that has become a symbol of the Tea Party and shots of "the 'Nam."

 But who knows?