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32nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival '23

Feb-March 2023 - Deerfield Beach, Florida U.S.A.

 

------------------------Portraits of RenFest----------------------------

*[left-double-click for a closer-look - gesturing at The Joust]

 

*[No, this is not Sting! LOL Looks like him, though]

 

The Joust: Point of Impact - Impacting the Shield

The Field of Dreams - Renfest 2023 - 3/26/23

The Joust Pass: Adrenaline - Gorgeous Horses

Skill - Speed - Action - Shield - Thrills - Excitement

 

This is my 16th year covering this fun festival filled with color and pageantry and beautiful people. Each year some of the regulars return and sometimes fresh new faces appear to join the eclectic Renaissance Family. Some are vendors or employees, and some customers dress up to fit in with the renaissance festival fun and its 16th century way of life. One big happy family of a few thousand escaping the dull drums of their daily life for a few hours. This year's crop of new faces was lovely. Hope you enjoy the images. I try to capture their joy. Always fun, festive, very colorful and exciting!

Thank you very much for looking. Have a great day! Hazaaa!!

 

Florida Renaissance Festival Facebook Page:

www.facebook.com/flarenfest?ref=ts

 

Florida Renaissance Festival Overview Videos:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRRTINyamw (walking tour)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBB8hSvt3sE (walking tour)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-rc1VzDLxw#t=113.349 (Parade)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVEY7ti5vdo (Day's End Pub Sing)

www.myspace.com/g00dknight

 

this is a buddy, alex knight. check out his myspace to hear some tracks. album dropping this month. check it out!

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

(BEST VIEWED FROM A GREAT DISTANCE AND OVER YOUR SHOULDER AS YOU FLEE!)

 

"SSSSSSOOOOOO. I HEAR YOU'RE THE ONE WHO CALLED THEMSELVESSSSS A DRAGONSSSSLAYER, YESSSS?

 

WELL? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR 'SSSSSLAYER' ??

 

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Allow me to introduce Gracie. She's a dragon I made out of Fimo (an oven fireable modelling clay) many years ago for my partner, Gail.

 

Gracie, named after Grace Jones (they share an Attitude, I reckon!), stands about 21 centimetres tall (8 inches) and has a wingspan of about 40 cm (16 inches).

 

Her wings are made from aluminium sheet embedded and fired in the clay, with additional fins (you can see some on the back of her head in this picture) made from decorative foil leaf-like pieces purchased from the craft store and normally used in charm bracelets. Her wicked eyes, which I like best about the entire sculpture, are red glass, and I've always been chuffed by the way they catch the light across a room.

 

She's built around a wire armature, some of which has started to show through in spots...she's seen better days and has been in more than one knock-down-dragon-out fight with those pesky slayers.

 

She's still around though. They ain't!

 

Her fangs, incidentally, are nothing more than pointed toothpicks which means, come to think of it, that she could eat vampires for breakfast and smile...

 

I did hardly any sculpted detail work on her hide, I seem to recall it was all about the play of light on her ebony body. But I did drybrush with a grey acrylic wash which has helped bring out scratches and toolmarks.

 

You'll see more pictures of Gracie...

  

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

Wait, is that Bowser? King Koopa? I mean, he's kind of pretty much on the nose...

 

...ANYWAY, this is the Komodo Clan Dragon from Mcfarlane's Dragons (series 3). And I swear it's Bowser.

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

The Joust Good Guys ~ Proud & Brave

Portraits of Renfest ~ festival entertainers

24rd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

March 2016 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida U.S.A.

 

(three more photos in the comments)

 

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This is my tenth year covering this fun festival filled with color and pageantry and beautiful people. Each year some of the regulars return and sometimes fresh new faces appear to join the renaissance family. Some are vendors or employees, and some customers dress up to fit in with the renaissance festival fun and its 16th century way of life. One big happy family of a few thousand escaping the dull-drums of their daily life for a few hours. This year's crop of new faces was lovely. Hope you enjoy the images. I try to capture their joy. Always fun, festive and very colorful. Thanks very much for looking. Hazaaa!!

 

Check out my 2016 Renaissance Festival

album if you have time: flic.kr/s/aHskxrAngM

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

 

www.facebook.com/flarenfest?ref=ts

Hypocrites & losers & Liars. False Profits-IN equities, short-selling. Convenient "patriots," posing as Xperts. In-Q-tel let youALLs. Pedantic pedagogues.seers-&-futurists. $elling u$ down the tube$ of oblivion & ruin, as the Ultimate, Festering, wound-scourged, middle-class populace sinks onto the trolley tracks of civilization, humans seem 2 have NO future...while the greed train runs along the tracks. TABOOS & Education have evaporated into the heat, of the SHORT-SELLERS IMP-ass-yawnED, climatic, GLOBAL G8AOS. Warming-up old-time hatreds, & misUnderstand- ings. BRANDS scourge genetic codes into their computer files for further reference...THE Masters of Deceit are putting US all away slowly, day-by-day. They build THE neoTOWER of ECONOMIC nano-second bets, buys, across the Board, & BABBLE. Goodknight LADIES & GENtle MEN dayshits! Losers All. Sell your souls, Love Mom...your inequity broke her. heART Crane.

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

have already shot this earlier but at that time .. i did not knew anything about 'focus stacking' .. ever since then i was wanting to repeat this shot .. but with 'focus stacking' ...

 

it took me a while to actually catch a mosquito .. cage him in a plastic box .. it took the mosquito 3 days to die .. YES ..

 

Focus stacking of 52 images (only of the mosquito) resulting in one final image

 

Shot with Nikon D3X @ soft box tent @ Tokina 100 mm F 2.8 Macro @ SB 600 @ 24mm @ hitting the ceiling

 

Disclaimer: This shot is part of my test/experiments with product photography/table top photography. This is not any endorsement of any product(s). I wasn't commissioned by the company which owns this product or by any agency to shoot. This should not be used for any commercial / non-commercial use. This is purely for my portfolio.

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

Strobist info:

 

SB-900 @subject left @ zoomed at 14mm.

SB-600 @subject right @ zoomed at 14mm.

 

Shot taken at 1:1 magnification.

 

Disclaimer: This shot is part of my test/experiments with product photography/table top photography. This is not any endorsement of any product(s). I wasn't commissioned by the company which owns this product or by any agency to shoot. This should not be used for any commercial / non-commercial use. This is purely for my portfolio.

 

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

Friday, June 10, 2016, Copper Meadows, Ramona, California

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

Cody and Kara Goodknight pose with the John Deere Gator they received for being named Oklahoma Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers Acheivement Award winners during the awards session at the 78th annual OKFB meeting Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City.

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

This is how I think the room must look to me when I wake up in the morning with a hangover.

 

Entire IIT Bombay set.

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

2021 Oklahoma Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers Chairs Cody and Kara Goodknight introduce outgoing and incoming YF&R committee members during the Saturday afternoon business session at the 2021 Oklahoma Farm Bureau annual meeting in Norman, Oklahoma, on Saturday, Nov. 6.

21st Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

March 2013 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

17 of us went to Medieval Times for our daughters' joint birthdays. Lots of fun and eating with your fingers and stuff. Here the knights line up in preparation for their impending duel...or doom, as was the case for our Black Knight. We knew "our" knight was screwed when he was the first to do battle against the evil protagonist.

22nd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

February 2014 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

 

www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

21st Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

March 2013 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

21st Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

March 2013 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

A composite of a knight statue with a local castle looking building.

The jousting portion of the knights battle at the 2012 Renaissance Festival in Deerfield beach

yet another battle scene! Of course, you really have to wonder just what that knight's chances are. I mean, he'd have to get pretty close to actually use that thing, and he's fighting a super-dinosaur...

Photographers mate Third Class (PH3) Paul Goodknight swims across the ocean floor while shooting video coverage during training for the underwater photographic team off the Key West coast .

Dragons of the Sorcerer Clan take their craft very seriously, as it is a trust of their sacred bloodline.

Photographers mate Third Class (PH3) Paul Goodknight swims across the ocean floor while shooting video coverage during training for the underwater photographic team off the Key West coast .

Photographers Mate Third Class (PH3) Paul Goodknight shoots video tape footage using an underwater camera during training from the Underwater Photographic Team off the Key West coast.

21st Annual Florida Renaissance Festival

March 2013 ~ Deerfield Beach, Florida

www.myspace.com/g00dknight

 

this is a buddy, alex knight. check out his myspace to hear some tracks. album dropping this month. check it out!

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