This is my entry for the daily #monomad challenge hosted and curated by @monochromes.

Hello and greetings everyone in the black and white community. Today I want to share an event photo of the local pageant here at Kota Kinabalu Sabah that we call Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan. Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan is a local beauty pageant that being held during the Kaamatan festival. This is the largest celebration of the indigenous people here in Sabah, Malaysia.

Kadazan Dusun Cultural Association.
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This festival is being celebrate on May 30th and 31st every year. The final events is on the 31st of May every year. During this time every contestant of the Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan which representing their district will prepare for the final day of the beauty pageant.

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This photo of Maya, this photo of the last year celebration shows that she enters the Kadazan Dusun Cultural Association. She was the previous winner of the Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan 2021. She will step down from her reigning years and crown the new Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan Queen.

Below was the entrance of all the participant of the Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan beauty pageant from every district here in Sabah and some from peninsular Malaysia.

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Its nearly the month of the festival. Some of the district already begun their preparation for the district level. Soon on the month of April it will start to get more exciting, because of the result of all the district will be announced and shows their district representative for the Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan beauty pageant. During this season, most of the photographer will be very active on photoshoot activities and their social media will be flooded with all of the event photos especially the finalist of the Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan. I hope this year's event will be more fun and more exciting. I am ready to go and get as much photo as possible. :D

And that is all from me today. I hope that you guys like my post today. Thank you for visiting and have a great day everyone. Cheers.

Photographer : @tawadak24
Camera : Sony A7III| Sony G Lens 85mm f1.8
Editing Software : Adobe Lightroom CC
Stylus Tablet : XP Pen Deco 01 V2