I love to go to the Maryland Renaissance Festival. The opportunities (and challenges) for photography are many and varied. This year it was a little harder to go. The friend with whom I indulged in a friendly competition to find different subjects for photos passed away this summer. So John, some of these photos I took just for you. John had a quirky sense of humor, so the first of these shots were for him.
John would have noticed the boat on the hat long before I did.
John and Joy, his wife, were always on the lookout for interesting places to buy different types of chocolate. This stand is new this year. John would have just had to have one of the chocolate skulls or centipedes, whether he actually ate them or not.
Now I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even SEE the hands on this one until I got home and got the pictures downloaded into the camera. John wouldn't have been so blind. I was intrigued with the headdress.
The fellow on the "horse" has a variety of strange costumes; the horse is one of the smaller ones. John was always on the lookout for him and his flights of fancy.
I'm not sure which caught John's fancy more, the metalwork creations or the people creating them (and occasionally modelling them). The supply of wares is strong this year.
Children are more in line with what I look for--interesting expressions and costumes. I call this one my pensive princess.
This young lady is amazingly agile, especially since she is so high in the air.
I loved the face paint job on these two children, and apparently they did, too, although one was busily adding adornment to enhance her look.
I'm hoping to make one more trip to the festival before it ends later this month. It tends to be much more comfortable this time of year than when it opens in late August!
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