Mayfaire Renaissance Festival 2009

[Bill Mattocks]

Marshall, Michigan - bit of a drive for me today, but they gave me free entry for being a veteran - how cool is that? Hope you like the photos...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wigwam/sets/72157619025861576/show/

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[Live True]

Thanks Bill, that looks like fun, and some of the participants are very well dressed indeed! Takes me back to my recreation days...lots of fun and good learning too!

 

[stickarts]

Looks like fun! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Fiendlover]

i worked at the Renaissance Festival in may here in SoCal.

this was my booth.

http://www.fellowshipfoundry.com/

it was really fun. ill put up pictures later. :ultracool

 

[celtic_crippler]

Ren-Fairs are fun. Thanks for posting.

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

I have always enjoyed the occasional renaissance fair trip! Bill the one in Holly Michigan is pretty sweet!

 

[terryl965]

Very nice pics, I enjoyed some of the belly dancers. I am sure you did too!!

 

[Bill Mattocks]

I have always enjoyed the occasional renaissance fair trip! Bill the one in Holly Michigan is pretty sweet!

I always go to the Holly Ren Fair, but as a photographer, the crowds make it hard for me to get shots of the people who dress up without also getting shots of some guy in a "I love beer" t-shirt stuffing a turkey leg in his mouth in the background.

But it is a very cool fair to attend, I agree.

I have to say I thought the Bristol fair outside Chicago was bigger, but that was many years ago. I know the performers and workers live on premises like gypsies during the fair. Left a girlfriend there once - she got a job, that was the last of her.