[Sca-cooks] SCAdian High school yearbook photo banned

Laura C. Minnick lcm at jeffnet.org
Tue Dec 12 20:04:10 PST 2006


At 07:53 PM 12/12/2006, you wrote:
>I took a look at the photo and was puzzled.  It would seem to me that if he
>wanted to do such he should do it more in a period style.  The only fully
>armed chainmailed and active depiction I recall offhand had the person
>kneeling clasping the sword with the blade down and the hilt upright such
>that it formed a cross.  The others armed and with sword that I recall are
>funeral bronzes with the person depicted as dead/asleep.  Be that as it may
>in my opinion a portrait shot in a period style appropriate to his persona
>would have been a far better choice.

The pose is a pretty standard pose for that kind of yearbook photo though. 
I've seen them with baseball bats, hockey sticks, etc. It's likely that the 
photographer would not have gone with the poses you suggest.

'Lainie, who thinks that if bats are allowed, so should swords be.
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