The Adequate Blog

Wandering through Tribe.net recently, which is where the majority of “acquaintances” I have at faires are (as opposed to ‘friends’ - and you know who you are), I see a number of photo sets various people have taken at various faires and I noticed that, much to my ego’s dismay, I ain’t in many.

• Not a lot of standing around with burning stuff in their hands
• Rarely do we eat fire
• I move around stage far too much for the average photographer to capture an “action shot” (much kudos to the brave Trol who caught me in mid-flail back at Dickens those years ago)
• I am neither handsome enough nor grotesque / eccentric looking enough to serve as an interesting photo subject to the casual photographer. The second part of this surprises me
• The majority of ’set moments’ in my show involve people reacting to me. Granted, I twist and contort myself about in amusing ways, but most of the ‘magic’ moments either happen far too fast, or are far too non-showy to make for a good photo op.
• The majority of my “acquaintances” (ie: casual ‘hey I know you!’) at faire already have an enormous ‘to-do’ list of friends to take pictures of.

… and finally:

* Dang jugglers get all the photos, cash and wimmen

However… I did discover that thanks to some of my “Repeat Offender” fans I do have some pictures floating around on Flickr  (it’s amazing what doing a Flickr search can do for one’s ego), as well as nifty pictures from a few other sources…

And when I get the new costume pieces done, there will be pictures.. oh yes …

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