Photo of the moment: Focus and blur

The Semoya Dance Group — some local Sto:lo traditional dancers — perform on the red carpet at the gala opening of the new Chilliwack Cultural Centre last Saturday.

I had a moment where I decided there was something about this photo and the circumstances that surrounded its taking that told a story of some type: our white, Western culture all dressed up gazing at the blurred, unclear First Nations culture; or maybe something worse, the traditional, ceremonial dance ignored by some of "us" in the photo and observed by others as a zoo-like spectacle worthy of picture-taking (yours truly included).

But it's really just a picture of native dancers expressing their culture in front of a non-native cultural centre.