Vegetable Justice is one of the perennial draws at the festival. Appealing to the dark side of human nature for its entertainment value, it consists of the target hurling abusive comments at the participants who, in return, hurl tomatoes. This lass flinched a bit too much in my opinion.
Chad could not resist the temptation to work out his anger issues. Maybe that girl was right to flinch…
The location of the festival is right next to train tracks and for the first time I saw one go by. It added to the surreal blending of eras already present.
After Chad failed to score a hit on the Vegetable Justice girl, the weather decided to get a tad hostile. Wind blew, light rain spat, and dust kicked up into the air.
Getting out of the rain for a bit of rest, I switched to the 55-200mm lens in one of the shops. A test shot of the animal rides confirmed that I managed not to get any dust in the camera. While you can see the elephants, the camel there is not present in the picture. No unicorns to ride, thankfully.
At 1:00 PM there was a blacksmithing demonstration which was irresistible to our would be smiths, Brannick and Christian. Chad and I took off to check out the martial arts demonstration instead. That I’ll cover in a separate post.
I took this picture of gypsies pulling a cart just for Amber. I know she’ll appreciate it.
While half our group spoke to the dojo members about swords, I noticed blades of another sort being used a good distance away. Not used to the bigger lens, I decided to test it out. To my surprise it had enough reach to take decent pictures.
Once the Canon 55-200mm EF-S locked on, I became obsessed with capturing a knife in mid air.
After multiple shots, the last one produced a knife flying through the air at the spinning target. I love this lens!
Juggling followed the knife throwing and involved catching a lighted torch from another performer, then lighting the other torches with it while juggling them. I see a future tossing multiple pizzas at once in this guy’s future.
To be continued…
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