Then come the men with flags and the parade proper starts. The originals of all of these photographs were extremely noisy because there was very little available light (mainly street lights and the light from the flaming torches) and as this had to be taken from some distance away with a telephoto lens, I could not use flash and had to use the highest sensitivity settings on my camera (ISO3200 and 6400) and still increase the exposure the equivalent of another couple of stops in Photoshop. Then I put them through Neat Image and these were the best results I could manage. I have uploaded them at only 650 pixels wide because they are too noisy to post any larger.