CSO Lumenocity

My photo buddy texts me yesterday and says "do you want to go to Lumenocity at Washington Park?" so of course I text back and ask "what is Lumenocity?" photo buddy's response was "OMG" I knew then that my ignorance was showing and just waited for the answer, "Lumenocity is the 2nd annual Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra event being held in Washington Park," you dumb ass....okay I added that last part in my head after I read his reply. The event doesn't actually start until this evening (Friday night) but the dress rehearsal was last night, thinking the event had to be free we headed on down to watch.

When we arrived we found out the event was free however, we still needed tickets to enter, so we walked around in search for a free place to sit, during this exhausting search we came across some local news channels.

Then we stumbled across the construction of the new tracks for the street car.

finally we found a spot and planted ourselves as close to the symphony as possible, which was right behind them and across the street. Yep not so pretty but all I wanted was to listen to the music anyway.

While getting comfy, well as comfy as you can on cement a woman came up to us and asked if we would like tickets to get into the event, seriously not going to turn something like that down, even if it is only a dress rehearsal.

Now this became our view, YAY!!!

This was only a fraction of the crowd that showed up.

 A lot of media coverage for a dress rehearsal.

Lets add a beautiful sunset...

...and the local dance company.

While we are on a roll lets bring on a little opera.

She had such a beautiful voice, I planned on taping her performance, which I did however.....reason number 19 as to why I will never call myself a professional photographer, when shooting video of an opera singer make sure you have the volume turned on....CRAP!!!

My rating for this event? Seriously? 5 STARS!!!