They call it the 5th season: street carnival in Cologne. My first try at Street Photography(?). Anyway the weather was so fantastic today that I got out with the camera and mixed with the crowd trying to find joyful people. Lots of them. This was my first carnival after 6 years of abstinence (and probably 20 years+ since I saw the last parade. It seems to have changed considerably. It is much more colorful than I remembered and different in style, it`s more of a blend now between the old traditional carneval and costumes and the Venetian one. I think it is to the better.