What’s going on at the Calle 8 festival? I didn’t know…  and I needed to find out, many photography friends always mentioned it like a great place for some street photography.

My Little Havana experience was only “Viernes Culturales”  an event that runs the last friday of every month.

But the Calle 8 Carnival it’s a festival of a totally different caliper, this is Miami’s biggest party and spans over 24 blocks, the 8th street  (Calle 8) gets closed to allow over 30 stages with live performances, dancing, food, and of course drinking…. In sum, a grand celebration of hispanic culture…

It was also an opportunity for me to take the Fuji  X-T1 for a spin for the first time, I brought a couple of lenses but ended up using just the 23mm 1.4, and I really liked the performance. Fuji is now my go to camera for anything travel or street related, and it will stay like that.

Calle 8 was fun to shoot, tried to capture the spirit of the festival, here are some of the photos I like the most….

That's all for now, more coming soon...