Renaissance Festival last weekend (sharing some photos)

[-megalithanod]

Some may remember, but it really doesn't matter if you don't, that last weekend I got the chance to go to the annual Renaissance Festival that goes on here in middle TN. I thought I'd share some of the photos with you all.

Mind you, these are raw scans and no retouching, so don't nitpick on any dust [img]wink.gif[/img]

First off we have a few from the first match of jousting in the day. I think I'll title the first pic "Nice ass"



This was the guy we were supposed to be cheering for (for sheer fact that we chose the left side of the field)



They all had to go through these "feats of skill" before they were allowed to pummel each other with very long sticks of wood.


<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ June 06, 2004 11:15 PM: Message edited by: -megalithanod ]</font>

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My chosen angle wasn't good the first time around as there were just too mant damn people in the stands and you would "lose" them in the clutter when looking at the photo. There were a couple that came out without anyone other than them (like the first photo shows the problem with the people). This part of the tourney was funny as the goal was to ride around next to each other on your horse and smack the shit out of the other guy with a short wooden stick. It was supposed to simulate close battle conditions or something. I looked at it as a good stress reliever.




Like I said, my angle for jousting sucked the first time around, but here are a couple of "our hero" after the jousting.

[-megalithanod]

We stuck around for the Falconry show, but again, the shear number of people caused problems with decent pics



The next event we caught was the Human Chess match. Really good entertainment! It was scripted, but good to watch and a good laugh as well. It started with the "Pirates" telling a joke.

An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman walk into a pub and each order a pint. Simultaneously, they all have a fly land into their beer.

The Englishman called for the bartender and said "Barkeep! I need another pint as a fly has landed in mine"

The Scotsman picked the fly out of the beer and tossed it aside before drinking away.

The Irishman picked the fly out of his beer and started shaking it and yelling "Spit it Out! SPIT IT OUT!"

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In the Chess match - you also got to see some of the costumes that were constantly walking around:





<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ June 06, 2004 11:17 PM: Message edited by: -megalithanod ]</font>

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After the chess match, which we took a semi-bad angle for since we were waiting for the following jousting match, we watched jousting again.

Here are some of the tourney thingies again - especially the "beat the shit out of each other on horses" contest




and a MUCH better angle for the jousting!!!

[-megalithanod]

I like to call this 4 photo segment <font size="3"><font color="blue">"Moment of Impact"</font></font>

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I think the next four also fall into another "Moment of Impact" showing, but more like "Almost felled" series:

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The last thing we caught for the day was a glass blowing demonstration. I didn't have a good angle as my wife was far more interested in getting specific photos of it where I was doing it by the seat of my pants school of photography; so I made sure she had the good seat, and I took one that was blocked a little, but a couple did come out:







Hopefully you all enjoy the pics!

[Joranthalus]

cool pics!

I used to work the renfest up here in Bristol WI. Played timpani during the joust and was part of a wandering minstrel act. the pay sucked, but it was "all you can drink"...

But i got entirely sick of those fuckers with "speak middle english"" or "that does not exist" and all that shit. I never go there any more

Here's my impression of Jor at a renfest

*Jor leaves renfest*

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[-megalithanod]

I can see where it would get tiring. I got tired of it and I was a visitor!

Although, I did like the women that truely followed the dress attire from that era! [img]wink.gif[/img]