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Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« on: 2013-06-09, 13:26:33 »
I was able to shoot a few of the demos yesterday (8 June 2013) at VARF.  I selected 38 photos that came out reasonably well and posted them on the album, the entire set is up to view on Flickr and can be seen here

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Here is a sampling of some of the shots.  On the last show of the day we did some cutting demos on some villainous French cabbages!  There are also some good shots of the Blossfechten and Harnessfechten demos.















« Last Edit: 2013-06-09, 13:27:44 by Ian »
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Re: Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« Reply #1 on: 2013-06-09, 14:47:52 »
Those pics look awesome, I seriously need to move down there so I can join you guys. Your camera captures it quite well too, looks almost like some scenes out of medieval movies in a way.

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Re: Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« Reply #2 on: 2013-06-09, 16:44:44 »
wwwwwwwwooooooowwwwwww awesomeeeeeeeeeee

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Re: Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« Reply #3 on: 2013-06-10, 04:29:33 »
Great pictures! I'm glad you made it to VARF, and thanks for taking pics!
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Re: Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« Reply #4 on: 2013-06-10, 07:05:28 »
Those are amazing pics Sir Ian!
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« Reply #5 on: 2013-06-10, 09:13:59 »
Awesome pictures Sir Ian! It was great finally getting to meet you and your wonderful family as well. :)
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Re: Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« Reply #6 on: 2013-06-10, 14:28:41 »
Great shots, Sir Ian! Really loved the villainous cabbages getting their just desserts! :)

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« Reply #7 on: 2013-06-10, 14:28:53 »
Those photos are fantastic!!
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Re: Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« Reply #8 on: 2013-06-10, 15:13:23 »
Thank you all!  It was a blast getting to take them!  I realized after I left though how stupid I was for never getting a shot with all of us!  Doh!
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Re: Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« Reply #9 on: 2013-06-10, 15:16:53 »
I saw the group photo on the Order facebook page of Sir Wolf's knighting. I like it!! :) Always need more photos especially group ones as they are hard to come by. Nice demo shots Sir Ian. Those french cabbages got their just deserve. :P Now let me get some potatoes, carrots, onions, broth, herbs & soup is on.  ;D
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Re: Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« Reply #10 on: 2013-06-10, 16:24:34 »
Those french cabbages got their just deserve. :P Now let me get some potatoes, carrots, onions, broth, herbs & soup is on.  ;D

lol, that reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from the 1992 movie version of 'Last of the Mohicans',  ;)

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« Reply #11 on: 2013-06-10, 17:08:21 »
Good stuff!  :D
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Re: Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« Reply #12 on: 2013-06-11, 04:54:25 »
Awesome photos Sir Ian, thank you for coming down and taking them!  :)
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Re: Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« Reply #13 on: 2013-06-11, 13:47:30 »
really proud of you guys. looked awesome when i saw it. would have loved to see the full armoured combat. it sucks living so far away.

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Re: Order of the Marshal VARF Demo
« Reply #14 on: 2013-06-11, 14:44:41 »
SO I’ve been thinking, dreaming and scheming. What if we expanded next year’s demo to include some additional weaponry? – If we can convince the VARF Entertainer director to again make us the last act of the day for the joust field we can have an expanded show to demonstrate other weapons and even additional duels with perhaps…
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Wait for it…
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Poleaxes!  ;D

What do you all think?
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