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I'm getting in the Pennsic mood. Gimme your pennsic pics. Please try to attach a pic to any posting.

More pennsic coolness.

One of my fave's...

Denewulf that is a cool picture . I've never been to Pennsic before but everyone tells me its huge. That helps put into perspective how huge we're talking.

Leopold der Wolf wrote:Denewulf that is a cool picture . I've never been to Pennsic before but everyone tells me its huge. That helps put into perspective how huge we're talking.

It is pretty big. I wasn't too impressed because previous to the SCA, I was into French and Indian War/mountain man reenacting and the National Rendezvous at Friendship, IN is huuuuuge.

What made it impressive is when you realize that at Pennsic, there is not one single visitor. If you're there, you paid the camping fee.

Can't wait to go abck this year.

-Ramius

Your are looking at maybe a third of it in that picture.

I am ready for pennsic.

Nissan Maxima wrote:I am ready for pennsic.

I am coming to your camp!!!

Line for the start of the squire's tourney a few years ago:



Atlantian brothers of mine demonstrating the alcohol-fueled Hammer Dance:



And, speaking of nostalgia, the field battle, circa 1988:

Thaddeus wrote:Your are looking at maybe a third of it in that picture.

http://www.flame.org/~explorer/album/pe ... 27-116.jpg
Too big to post here.

And more
http://www.flame.org/~explorer/album/penn27.html

Winterfell wrote:

Thaddeus wrote:Your are looking at maybe a third of it in that picture.

http://www.flame.org/~explorer/album/pe ... 27-116.jpg
Too big to post here.

And more
http://www.flame.org/~explorer/album/penn27.html

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Leopold der Wolf wrote:

Winterfell wrote:

Thaddeus wrote:Your are looking at maybe a third of it in that picture.

http://www.flame.org/~explorer/album/pe ... 27-116.jpg
Too big to post here.

And more
http://www.flame.org/~explorer/album/penn27.html

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

and even that is missing some of the camps above the lot and below the lake....

Domnall wrote:More pennsic coolness.

That one has been my wallpaper for a while...

Field Battle, 2003. This really captures the majesty and scope of just how big the large melees are.

I didn't scale it because it makes decent wallpaper.

http://home.roadrunner.com/~akroyurt/misc/102_0297.JPG

This will be my First Pennsic. Can't wait.

They called it the crusader battle, but I thought of it as the battle of folks in great armor. (and no tape)

Come on guys! I need pictures! Dudes are visually stimulated! (oh dear god! what did I just say)

My lady took this. She said the sky looked cool over us. I agree. Murdoc is on the left.

Probably a bridge battle, given the angle/closeness of the photo and the fact that we are getting creamed from two directions.

This is from 2 years ago... last remnants of the Western Foreign Legion.
Sir Geoffrey Scott is in the center, Niall Mor is the background with the leather-lined lammelar and blue/white/green tunic. I am in the red tunic with the red-laced lammellar to the left of GS.

There are at least two Westies and 1 unidentified ally. The red spear with the yellow "favor" (green demi-sun) must be ours, and I am pretty sure the guy in white to the left of me with the little plywood shield (not sure if it's a heater or a bunny round) is one of ours... his belt looks famailiar too... might be Count Veniamin.

Also, the guy in the blue helmet must be on our side, but I don't recognize him. I am thinking that if you fight for the midrealm, you might not want a blue helmet.

Okay, I'm bored at work, so here's a few from last year.



Field battle. Looks like East Kingdom guys coming in from the left. Beyond that, no clue.



Dunno who these guys are either, but a nice colorful bunch.



Another random shot of the field battle.

I have a few... thousand more pics of Pennsic from each year dating back to 1998, so if you want (much) more, feel free to visit:

http://www.bogpages.com/SCA%20photographs/24279

I like the thread. Starting to catch "Pennsic fever" myself.

See y'all there, if not before!

Ursus

On Ursus' post- I've seen that gold eagle heraldry in Aethelmarc. Didn't Brother Baldo bear that?
In the second shot there's a Calontiri on the left, some Rhoad guys from Ansteorra, I think there's a Moritu person mixed in (looks like Otter to me), then some heraldry I don't recognize, then an Eldormirian on the right.
The third shot, bottom middle (a bit to the left) is that Geoffrey Scott again? He's a Westie. The black and gold guys are Darkmoon- Midrealm.

Yeah, the first pic is Sir Ankara from the Northern Army (VDK, specifically) about to light up Boldo.

Yeah! I didn't spot the VDK trim. Doesn't look like that shot's going to be light.

Leopold der Wolf wrote:Denewulf that is a cool picture . I've never been to Pennsic before but everyone tells me its huge. That helps put into perspective how huge we're talking.

here, lets put it in perspective for you:




What you are seeing in the photo above is the view from the hill in the BIG green field (upper part of that field) off to the right (as you look at the picture). So you are not seeing all the stuff behind the viewer (the spit that runs up to the right of the field) nor the B blocks (left of the field) nor anything below that treeline that is about the upper third horizontal line in the photo. Plus, most of what you see as trees below has people camping in it too.

pennsic is BIG. REALLY REALLY REALLY BIG!

That little road on the right is an interstate sized highway.

Crimthann of Fid-Nemed wrote:This will be my First Pennsic. Can't wait.

if you are of drinking age find me at Big Yellow House, N 18, one gate down from the North Gate, and claim your beer. If not, claim your soda. Either way, stop up and say "Hi!"

i'll have the big white pavilion with roof-mounted sunshade, black and red dragon scale dags, and nice wood furniture.

I can name quite a few of the folks in Ursus' third photo...

The blue and gold tabards are the Sternfeld Baronial unit, Her Excelleny Moira on the left, Azrael on the right. Between them in the Darkmoon colors is Sir Maurice.

The polearmsman in the pale on the ground is Cecil, squired to Duke Palymar; just behind him in the blue helm is Master Eirik.

The fellow with the yellow bird on the red field is Aidan, to his right is William Rane, and to his right is Tristan.

The lady in the lower right corner wearing the Valsgarde is Aine.

Just above the marshal in the Darkmoon colors is Sir Gerwulf; to his right is Cadogan Blaydes, recently placed on vigil for elevation to the Order of the Chivalry.

Here's a couple that I like (and that have me in them...)
First is a crop of an Ursus pic... I'm in the center, in maille. The scutum on the ground is one of two guys who figured that pushing the little spearman over the bales would be easy.
They were wrong.
[img]http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg228/olafharaldson/untitled-1.jpg[/img]

This one is from Pennsic 36... a bunch of us Northern Army boys turning the corner in the field battle. I'm front and center, once again...


And one of our camp in the morning mist...
[img]http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg228/olafharaldson/Pennsic%202008/IM000671.jpg[/img]

Greetings,

Rock An Tir!




Hjlmr inn Danski

Maeryk wrote:

Crimthann of Fid-Nemed wrote:This will be my First Pennsic. Can't wait.

if you are of drinking age find me at Big Yellow House, N 18, one gate down from the North Gate, and claim your beer. If not, claim your soda. Either way, stop up and say "Hi!"

i'll have the big white pavilion with roof-mounted sunshade, black and red dragon scale dags, and nice wood furniture.

Maeryk, I thank you for your offered hosptality. While I am of drinking age, closing now on my 30th year, I abstain from both alcohol and soda, and remain happy with chai, water, juices and milks. I shall seek you none the less.

I have some doozies, but .... is there a quick and easy wat to render a pic down to the 100kb maximum or do I have to keep playing with crop and picture percentage size tools?

I be picshur ee-litter-it.

Go to photoshack.us

They offer free image hosting and will resize the image for ya.

Lucian Ro wrote:I have some doozies, but .... is there a quick and easy wat to render a pic down to the 100kb maximum or do I have to keep playing with crop and picture percentage size tools?

I be picshur ee-litter-it.

For photo editing, I use Gimp. Gimp is a downloadable open source (free) image editing software package that can do it quite well.

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

For photo hosting, I use image shack. Image shack will resize images, but you have to upload the whole big image before it will resize it for you.

http://imageshack.us/

There are lots of ways to do it, and some are better than what I am used to using, but that is what I am used to.

You are going to post your images, right? Several people have answered your questions.

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freiman the minstrel wrote:You are going to post your images, right?

I have a program I downloaded, it just still takes a bit of playing around with the images. Here's one, from Ursus.

Edit - Ugggh, why didn't it show up?

I really want to want to go


right now

not even kinda

soooo much work this year

Murdock wrote:I really want to want to go


right now

not even kinda

soooo much work this year

+1

I use this free program called (I think) "Windows Image Resizer". You right click on the picture you want to resize, and in your normal little menu that you get, you also get a "Resize Picture", and when you click on it, it will ask if you want to resize to Small, Medium, Large, or Custom (it gives the dimentions of each so you know which one you'd like to use for different applications...well...except for custom in which you define your own). And you can choose to either resize the original or save the new photo as a different file. Very handy, I couldn't live without it (and you never have to open up a specific program, its all done from the right click).

Course since its a "Windows" tool, it probably only works on PCs, not Macs, but I don't know.

Here's the link. WARNING! This is a link directly to download the file, NOT a webpage hat the file is on. If you don't want it, don't click the link! http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... ySetup.exe