The fringie wank

[gurdymonkey]

"Waaah, nobody ever comes out to our camps and takes pictures."

Does none of you own a camera and have a Flickr/Smugmug/Photobucket album?  You too can upload dozens and dozens of photos  documenting your weekend and share them with the kingdom simply by posting the link publicly. Oh, I see, you want moriven or shutt3rg33k  or Esmeralda - people who take good pictures - to do it. Why not  try crawling out of the Nylon Fortress of Solitude* on the Back 40, seek them out personally and ask? Nicely? 


"Waaah, I'm sick of hiking out to East Fringehold and being abused at for doing my job!" 

Whining is unseemly when you're the voice of the Crown. Finish your shout if you can, explain politely that you are just doing your job and trying to provide a service to the neighborhood and move along. If you encounter anything more than mild hecking, report it to the herald in charge and discuss whether to bring back-up to the next duty shout in that area, in the form of constabulary, Chivalry or even Royalty.

"You know, I thought about doing Japanese once, but it's so fringie!" (Someone actually said this to me once.)

Gee, thanks. Fringie is as fringie does. Do it reasonably decently and do it "downtown" and it's not fringie any more. (Same goes for pirates, Rom and the cultures of the near East.) Didn't think about that part, did you?

*I am not snarking modern tentage. It's what some folks have, it gets the job done. That's fine. Picking one's "ideal" event campsite is a highly personal choice, as is what once chooses to do at an event. That's fine too. However, if your choice is physically and socially remote to central event activities, it was your choice.

Comments

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

Uh, hmm.

I just started and rewrote about a bazillion things. None of them are quite right.

Anyhoo, I quite agree with your photography assessment. I also have to say that moriven and I put a lot of work into culling as much of the mundane world as possible from our pictures. Put a little effort into sprucing up the camp or not wearing the dregs of semi-fantastical clothing (yes, my friends, you know my chorus "underwear goes on the inside!"), and you're a helluva lot more likely to show up in our posted pics. We don't have super-high standards for this, be we do have *some*.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

I know you do: your albums are routinely outstanding and I wish more SCA photographers would look at them and take copious notes on what to do right instead of feeling the need to post every badly composed, unflattering frame they shoot.