Today DH and I ventured off to the Loch Norman Highland Games and Scottish Festival. There was lots to see there and plenty of good camera fodder.
There were kilts of every tartan imagineable from every clan I've ever heard of, and many that I'd not, highland games conducted on the field, pipe bands playing, shepherds "sheeping" and various re-enactment cameos abounded ranging from somewhat medieval to civil war displays.
It was truly quite impressive.
As always, I was drawn to the people and faces. For someone who professes not to be that keen on portrait photography, I seem to do a heck of a lot of it..... though I think that it's more that I am drawn to the character style of that genre and not the dress up party look, if that makes sense.
Is there such a thing as photojournalistic portraiture? If so, then that's probably my bag....
After gadding about we decided to test out yet another of the local haunts for a bite to eat. The Rusty Rudder is a "rock throw" away from our house, which sits on the lake shore, right between the two masts of the yachts to the right.
The food is kind of average American Pub stuff, but the view is stellar and the live band music was pretty good and so was the beer .... I can rather see making this the "local" over the summer months!!....
I am liking the photos of your new home.
There is a guy living on Lake Norman with his wife, and they have a podcast. He's a radio DJ from years back, and they started the podcast after he retired in October. They're on the water and take the dogs out on their boat all the time. And I told him you were new there and to go visit you and say hi. Then of course, I heard that there are something like 45,236 miles of shoreline on Lake Norman.
So, I suspect asking which of these boats belongs to whom is a pointless enterprise...
Posted by: Chris | April 25, 2013 at 05:06 PM
You chose great faces. And, the view from the restaurant looks delightful.
Posted by: Joanne Thieme Huffman | April 22, 2013 at 07:12 AM