News Item: : Some news and a challenge.
(Category: Faire Related News)
Posted by KaLea
Monday 28 September 2009 - 06:39:39
We are back from a wonderful weekend at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire. Saturday was absolutely gorgeous with wonderful weather and record breaking opening day attendance numbers! There was a feel of excitement in the air with the new site layout and it seemed to me there was much more interaction both between those working at faire and those attending, it was a long and fantastic day. Sunday brought rain and a few die hard faire goers but it too had it's own positive bits. There was a touching surprise wedding proposal which had more than one person a bit teary eyes... good thing for the misty weather, and as I was walking around I saw a good deal of other merchants milling about, talking with their neighbors and interacting with cast which we don't find ourselves able to do as easily when the days are jam packed with patrons. It was a marvelous opportunity for grand conversations with people we get to see far too infrequently and because of those conversations I am very thankful for the rain... though I do hope it will be the only foul weather day of the run
During one of the conversational opportunities over the weekend I was able to chat with the infamous Red Beard the pirate (aka Eric of CTRF). I mentioned that I had noticed he wasn't floating around Saturday taking some of the amazing pictures that we all love to look at and that I hoped he would be out on Sunday. It was then that he gave me the awful news.... his cannon is broken! It seems that over time taking pictures causes SLR cameras to sort of eat themselves, with every picture taken you slowly wear down the shutter assembly and once it's done... it's done. Without replacing the camera, there would be no CTRF 09 pictures for all of us to oogle and enjoy. No browsing through hundreds of amazing faire photos taken from the Red Beard perspective hoping just a little bit to find one of yourself. It seems to me that a CTRF season without flipping through the albums of Red Beard and Blue Beard both is just not complete. With the two perspectives they present, and any good pirate knows that to cannons are better than one, it makes it possible for those who are unable to visit the faire to get a true glimpse into the fun, interactions and amazingly good times.
Though I tried to paint a picture in your mind at the start of this post, I am not as good at it as I would like to be... it would be beneficial to be able to now point you to a couple of links where you too can go and see some of what I saw over the weekend. Blue Beard was milling about over the weekend and I did indeed seem him taking photos so I am sure at some point very soon we will have those for all to enjoy, but sadly, with Red Beard left cannon less there will be no CTRF 09 first weekend photos for all to enjoy.
But wait! Red Beard may have no photos from the first weekend... but WE can make sure that he is able to be out sneaking about "shooting" the unsuspecting the rest of the run with a brand new Cannon! $1000 is a lot of money I think for any of us, especially these days. I know *I* don't have that just laying around collecting dust, I'm sure you probably don't either, and after talking to Eric I know that he does not. What I do know is that we are community, we help our neighbors when we are able... even in small ways, and through community we make possible those things that we thought impossible. That said here is what I ask of you:
Go to http://nerennies.chipin.com/erics-ts-camera to make a donation. $1, $10, $100, what ever you are able to do is greatly appreciated. My challenge to everyone is to raise the money Eric needs over the course of this work week so that he can have his new camera ready for next weekend! Please remember that things at NERennies might not be quite the same if not for all of the time and energy that Eric donated to the cause before Keith et all were asked to take over. Not to mention all of the incredible photos he has taken of so many of us over the years, I know I have a bunch and maybe you do as well... or maybe you will be a target in the future, but that can't happen without the cannon! He has done, and continues to do, great things for our community and beyond and if you have ever had fortune to meet and chat with him you know that he is a wonderful and deserving friend.
If you would like to peruse current and past dueling cannon pictures you may find Blue Beard's site here and Red Beard's site here
This news item is from NERennies: A Renaissance Faire Enthusiast Community, a place for NE (Any) Rennie to call home
( http://www.nerennies.net/news.php?extend.35 )
(Category: Faire Related News)
Posted by KaLea
Monday 28 September 2009 - 06:39:39
We are back from a wonderful weekend at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire. Saturday was absolutely gorgeous with wonderful weather and record breaking opening day attendance numbers! There was a feel of excitement in the air with the new site layout and it seemed to me there was much more interaction both between those working at faire and those attending, it was a long and fantastic day. Sunday brought rain and a few die hard faire goers but it too had it's own positive bits. There was a touching surprise wedding proposal which had more than one person a bit teary eyes... good thing for the misty weather, and as I was walking around I saw a good deal of other merchants milling about, talking with their neighbors and interacting with cast which we don't find ourselves able to do as easily when the days are jam packed with patrons. It was a marvelous opportunity for grand conversations with people we get to see far too infrequently and because of those conversations I am very thankful for the rain... though I do hope it will be the only foul weather day of the run
During one of the conversational opportunities over the weekend I was able to chat with the infamous Red Beard the pirate (aka Eric of CTRF). I mentioned that I had noticed he wasn't floating around Saturday taking some of the amazing pictures that we all love to look at and that I hoped he would be out on Sunday. It was then that he gave me the awful news.... his cannon is broken! It seems that over time taking pictures causes SLR cameras to sort of eat themselves, with every picture taken you slowly wear down the shutter assembly and once it's done... it's done. Without replacing the camera, there would be no CTRF 09 pictures for all of us to oogle and enjoy. No browsing through hundreds of amazing faire photos taken from the Red Beard perspective hoping just a little bit to find one of yourself. It seems to me that a CTRF season without flipping through the albums of Red Beard and Blue Beard both is just not complete. With the two perspectives they present, and any good pirate knows that to cannons are better than one, it makes it possible for those who are unable to visit the faire to get a true glimpse into the fun, interactions and amazingly good times.
Though I tried to paint a picture in your mind at the start of this post, I am not as good at it as I would like to be... it would be beneficial to be able to now point you to a couple of links where you too can go and see some of what I saw over the weekend. Blue Beard was milling about over the weekend and I did indeed seem him taking photos so I am sure at some point very soon we will have those for all to enjoy, but sadly, with Red Beard left cannon less there will be no CTRF 09 first weekend photos for all to enjoy.
But wait! Red Beard may have no photos from the first weekend... but WE can make sure that he is able to be out sneaking about "shooting" the unsuspecting the rest of the run with a brand new Cannon! $1000 is a lot of money I think for any of us, especially these days. I know *I* don't have that just laying around collecting dust, I'm sure you probably don't either, and after talking to Eric I know that he does not. What I do know is that we are community, we help our neighbors when we are able... even in small ways, and through community we make possible those things that we thought impossible. That said here is what I ask of you:
Go to http://nerennies.chipin.com/erics-ts-camera to make a donation. $1, $10, $100, what ever you are able to do is greatly appreciated. My challenge to everyone is to raise the money Eric needs over the course of this work week so that he can have his new camera ready for next weekend! Please remember that things at NERennies might not be quite the same if not for all of the time and energy that Eric donated to the cause before Keith et all were asked to take over. Not to mention all of the incredible photos he has taken of so many of us over the years, I know I have a bunch and maybe you do as well... or maybe you will be a target in the future, but that can't happen without the cannon! He has done, and continues to do, great things for our community and beyond and if you have ever had fortune to meet and chat with him you know that he is a wonderful and deserving friend.
If you would like to peruse current and past dueling cannon pictures you may find Blue Beard's site here and Red Beard's site here
This news item is from NERennies: A Renaissance Faire Enthusiast Community, a place for NE (Any) Rennie to call home
( http://www.nerennies.net/news.php?extend.35 )