More Vikings for Gunnar.........., a photo from South Lanarkshire, Scotland

Photographer's Note

Another picture taken at the Lanark Mediaeval Festival held at Lanark racecourse last weekend.

After Gunnar's (saxo042) interesting observations on my last posting, I am uploading this one for him.

I presume that the group of people who re-enacted these battles do a lot of research and try to make the scenes as authentic as possible. Gunnar tells me it is nice to see "Vikings" without horns on their helmets - apparently the real Vikings never had such adornments.

Shot in RAW and converted and edited in PSE6.

All comments/critiques/advice welcome!

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lrw1966 (1632) 2008-08-18 12:45

John Hi:
Amazing colors and detail with excellent clarity. It takes a big man to support that armor and that gentleman is large. Very interesting educational series, John, Congratulations, very well done, my friend.
Larry
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snaphappy (260) 2008-08-18 13:10

i have a 100 or so viking photos as well. the local reenactment group from the west midlands did a weekend near to us, very authentic with battles markets even a Saxon barn decked out,so i have my coins and Thor amulets have you. i knew about the helmets, horns I've only seen in york in a bizarre street comedy act as a promotion weekend for the yorvik museum. ever been there its great. nice pose in your photo by the way.
cheers
sue

saxo042 (38078) 2008-08-19 14:09

Thank you John!
I really appreciate this picture and dedication! Furthermore, the colours are very good and also the sharpness. But the real vikings look quite different, as you probably remember!
I have also seen the viking museum at York, very interesting. But the most interesting museum is the one at Bygdöy in Oslo, with genuine viking ships!
Greetings from another viking:)
Gunnar

Photo Information

Copyright: John Cannon (tyro) (30513)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-08-16
Categories: Festivals, Ceremony, Decisive Moment
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF 55-200mm F/4.5-5.6 II USM, Jessops 52mm Skylight 1A
Exposure: f/6.3, 1/1000 seconds
More Photo Info: view
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-08-18 12:06