[Ansteorra] Flash Photography at events

[Susan Froebel]

I agree with Laszlo that the spoken word can sometimes evoke pictures more powerful than a photograph.  My favorite case in point involved a newcomer asking Sir Francois how he held up his tights.  It's a beautiful tale that I got in A.S. XV or XVI.  I do pull it out now and again at a bardic campfire, but I tell it poorly compared to some such as Don Tivar or Don Robin, one of whom, I think, first told it to me.

I was fortunate enough to actually meet Sir Francois (and dance with him) when I was a newcomer.  This means I have a face for the story, but it would lighten my heart even without the his visage in front of me.

One of my favorite things to do is swap stories about things seen along the way.  Get me a chair and find me a drink and I'd be happy to tell you this and many others.

Rhiannon o Goed Niwlog

Message: 5
 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:48:28 -0700 (PDT)
 From: robert segrest <aumbob at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Flash Photography at events

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I have heard stories:  Michael of Monmouthshire riding into court on a shield a la Surfboard, Sir Emrys'
 knighting, The Impervious shield of Sir Erasmus, and others.  Now I do not know, or barely know, any of the people involved in these stories, but they are indelibly burnt into my memory.  I'm sure pictures were taken at the time (maybe not of Sir Erasmus), but they could not possibly live up to the larger than life images I have of these moments.  In many ways the "ephemeral" arts of song and story can outlast the "permanent" arts of visual reproduction.

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 Fatthiopap Laszlo


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