Pictures of Me

• Me (34k+) at Pennsic 27 (1998) in a sunhat. The unofficial Pennsic sunhat shades my face from the sun which is a good thing, but it also shades my face from the camera, which is a bad thing.
• Me and Aonghus (29k) at Pennsic 27 sporting the wet look. The toothy wet grin is me picking through my knucklebone winnings as I put them away in a plastic bag. That was the first time I played, and the only time I won anything worth mentioning! Aonghus is sitting next to me in this picture - he's my sponsor and persona foster-father, and generally mentorish-sort of person.
• Me and the women of Norseland (39k+) waterbearing at Pennsic 27. In the waterbearing picture, I'm helping cool off a warrior who was fighting for the Midrealm side at one of the last battles. I'm the one with the sunhat (of course) and the long red hair, and I'm using a spray bottle.
• My son Benjamin (14k) at Imbolc '99 (2/20/99). Benjamin is sitting behind a bodhran, an Irish drum.
• All "Irish"ed up (28k) at a SCA demo (4/15/99). I have a problem with pictures, in that I usually smile TOO much. You might notice something different in this picture, I cut over a foot of hair off since Pennsic, and I've darkened it to just a few shades lighter than my natural color (no more brilliant copper!)
• Same view (34k), a little closer (4/15/99). If you can see around my big teeth, you'll see I'm dressed in my personal interpretation of early period Irish garb - sleeveless leine which is double-pinned (near the collar bones and at the edges) to form short dropped sleeves, a purple plaid brat tossed over one shoulder and belted at the waist (notice the bottom fringes I picked out by hand), an antler-handle style hunting knife ('till I can afford the real thing), and a drinking horn. While you can't make out the details in the picture, I am wearing a cord necklace with beads and a carved fish (early Christian symbol), a pair of fine silver earrings stamped with Celtic patterns, a pair of tiny bronze bow fibulae and larger white bronze fibulae to pin my leine, and a brass penannular shoulder brooch (with generic stamped designs in the terminals) to gather my cloak.