GETTING IN THE PENNSIC MOOD

Donald St. Colin · Post by **Donald St. Colin** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:47 am

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

Donald St. Colin · Post by **Donald St. Colin** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:48 am

More pennsic coolness.

Denewulf · Post by **Denewulf** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:40 am

One of my fave's...

Leopold der Wolf · Post by **Leopold der Wolf** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:18 am

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.

Benjamin de Hatfield · Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:23 am

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

Thaddeus · Post by **Thaddeus** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:23 am

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

Nissan Maxima · Post by **Nissan Maxima** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:04 pm

I am ready for pennsic.

AEiric Orvender · Post by **AEiric Orvender** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:24 pm

Nissan Maxima wrote:I am ready for pennsic.

I am coming to your camp!!! :shock:

Corby de la Flamme · Post by **Corby de la Flamme** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:56 pm

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:

Winterfell · Post by **Winterfell** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:08 pm

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

Leopold der Wolf · Post by **Leopold der Wolf** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:44 pm

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

hrolf · Post by **hrolf** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:00 pm

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....

Tristan vom Schwarzwald · Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:35 pm

Domnall wrote:More pennsic coolness.

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

Louis de Leon · Post by **Louis de Leon** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:56 pm

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

Ceadda · Post by **Ceadda** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:05 am

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

Donald St. Colin · Post by **Donald St. Colin** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:06 am

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)

Donald St. Colin · Post by **Donald St. Colin** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:14 am

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

Sigifrith Hauknefr · Post by **Sigifrith Hauknefr** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:58 am

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.

UrsusofAnglesey · Post by **UrsusofAnglesey** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:15 pm

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

Gaston de Clermont · Post by **Gaston de Clermont** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:45 pm

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.

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:16 pm

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

Gaston de Clermont · Post by **Gaston de Clermont** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:46 pm

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

Maeryk · Post by **Maeryk** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:51 pm

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.

Maeryk · Post by **Maeryk** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:55 pm

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.

Denewulf · Post by **Denewulf** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:34 pm

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.

olaf haraldson · Post by **olaf haraldson** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:56 pm

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]

Hjlmr inn Danski · Post by **Hjlmr inn Danski** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:45 am

Greetings,

Rock An Tir!

Hjlmr inn Danski

Ceadda · Post by **Ceadda** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:00 pm

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.

Lucian Ro · Post by **Lucian Ro** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:23 pm

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.

NeeSayer · Post by **NeeSayer** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:11 pm

Go to photoshack.us

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

freiman the minstrel · Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:01 pm

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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Lucian Ro · Post by **Lucian Ro** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:44 pm

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?

Murdock · Post by **Murdock** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:36 pm

I really want to want to go

right now

not even kinda

soooo much work this year

Donald St. Colin · Post by **Donald St. Colin** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:19 am

Murdock wrote:I really want to want to go

right now

not even kinda

soooo much work this year

+1

Adeliz · Post by **Adeliz** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:22 am

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

GETTING IN THE PENNSIC MOOD

GETTING IN THE PENNSIC MOOD

One of the better pics I've ever taken.