The Officially Unoffical Photo Thread for 2011

[Francisco Paula]

For those that want to see the pics i took all year go here https://picasaweb.google.com/hikadaf and you will see the different folders for the days i went.

Enjoy, take what you want.

[Norfolk]

Next year, hell.  why wait?  I say we all sneak up there while they are all in pittsburg and open the show ourselves.   

Count me in!!

[Francisco Paula]

lets do it....i can play the elephant

[Bahlien]

Edit : Hey look pictures.... some photographer kept trying to join in the parade shots. Some people just don't think phones count as camera's.

http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m250/MysticCleric/Larkspur%20Renfair%202011%20July%2031/


Much to my annoyance everyone else at the fair didn't consider my phone a camera either... out of 80 pictures those 17 are the only ones people didn't blatantly stumble through.

[Celtic Rune Stones]

Edit : Hey look pictures.... some photographer kept trying to join in the parade shots. Some people just don't think phones count as camera's.

http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m250/MysticCleric/Larkspur%20Renfair%202011%20July%2031/


Much to my annoyance everyone else at the fair didn't consider my phone a camera either... out of 80 pictures those 17 are the only ones people didn't blatantly stumble through.

It's not that they don't consider a phone cam a camera. It's just that people in a large public venue are oblivious to others in the crowd and literally don't see it when someone is trying to take a picture with a camera phone or small hand held digital camera.

I cant even begin to count the number of times I have had someone walk into a shot while I was in the process of setting up, and as most here will attest - when I am in 'photographer mode' I present a target neigh on impossible to overlook.

It happens to the best of us... 

[LadyAriella]

Much to my annoyance everyone else at the fair didn't consider my phone a camera either... out of 80 pictures those 17 are the only ones people didn't blatantly stumble through.

One of those photos is when Lady Rose made me dance with her, which I didn't realize ANYONE was watching, so -- NEAT! Good catch despite the stumbling patrons.

[Bahlien]

It's not that they don't consider a phone cam a camera. It's just that people in a large public venue are oblivious to others in the crowd and literally don't see it when someone is trying to take a picture with a camera phone or small hand held digital camera.

I cant even begin to count the number of times I have had someone walk into a shot while I was in the process of setting up, and as most here will attest - when I am in 'photographer mode' I present a target neigh on impossible to overlook.

It happens to the best of us...  

Quite true that. Its all right though I had fun being able to take pictures for a change, with a camera that doesn't utterly fail at being a camera...even for being on a phone. Hopefully next season I will be able to have a proper camera on hand.

One of those photos is when Lady Rose made me dance with her, which I didn't realize ANYONE was watching, so -- NEAT! Good catch despite the stumbling patrons.

Yes I was the fellow in the red doublet she asked to join right as Celtic Legacy was finishing up. I also had a mask on so It probably made it hard to recognize me... though in part my fault for not introducing myself to start with.  

[Earl of Surrey]

Oops, put this in the Lovely Video thread also, by mistake.

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All acknowledgements go to the Baron for this link.

I don't know the photographer, but I like his taste in pictures - particularly the first two (which have the Countess and I on the parapet properly abusing people).

  http://keithlm.smugmug.com/RenaissanceFestivals-3/Colorado-Ren-Fest-2011-Closing/18299719_Pd3LrB#1408614985_DRpPCKd

[LadyAriella]

which have the Countess and I on the parapet properly abusing people

I just about DIED when you two came up while I was reapplying my costume bits in the parapet tower and started greeting the "Riff-raff."

[Earl of Surrey]

I have a huge grin on my face, just thinking about you hearing us do that.

We hadn't been on the parapet before and didnt really know what to say, so we just launched into it.  It seemed like the sort of thing an Earl would say to people. 

I couldn't tell if we offended anyone by calling them the "riff raff" or "the rabble."  Occasionally, if someone looked offended, we suggested to me that they might be incognito nobility.  I think at one point we said something like, "you are welcome here as long as you don't bring pitchforks and torches."  And, at another, I just yelled, "what are all you people doing at my castle?" 

Clearly we can't be held responsible for the stuff we say up there.

[Ian Maxwell]

I've done some editing of pictures and wanted to show everyone how scary Capt Spleen was on opening day,



and here is LadyAriella and Fireflicker

[Merlin the Elder]

Lady Ariella, Fireflicker...and Spleen... All beautiful in their own way!

[Adriana Rose]

I donno what's scarier Spleen or Shamus puckering up 0_o

[LadyAriella]

and here is LadyAriella and Fireflicker

Holy crap that's BEAUTIFUL! I think that's one of the only photos of me all season where I don't look like a dork. I must put this on Facebook immediately.