Two princesses, Blackbeard and Richard the lion heart. Looks like Bill and Ted need help with another history assignment (not sure about the guy with horns). Fine series of shots, looking at Google bit alarmed to see the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area appears to be actually inside the dam.

a curious journey through time ... a cross and a can of beer! Shooting 'timeless' !!!

A very excellent journey through time indeed; yes, the princess appears distraught, but certainly one of those gallant knights will help her. Superb capture, Harry, these costumed folks are fascinating!

This is a very cool capture, Harry. I really enjoyed seeing their expressions.

Wonderful group captured !!!

Pretty Kewl! Aloha

Clothes from different eras can be seen here. Really interesting. However, I didn't know there was already canned beer in the Middle Ages. A superb shot!

Marvelous capture once again !!!

Ah, some babes! Though not very happy by the look of things.. Great outfit wore by the peeved looking one! More shots, bit happier? lol Rob

Again, I'm jumping in willy-nilly because I just don't know what to choose and what to leave out. I'd like to do them all, but with my lengthy comments that's very hard. So here's another session of samples, acknowledging that there are a slew of wonderful images I won't be able to do. Maybe I'll catch up eventually as I did before, but for now, another selection... I loved the music of this shot, and that you worked with such a shot to begin with: It's not an easy shot, with skewed glances, hidden tensions, the guy on the left looking pretty calm while the woman facing us looks quite perturbed. Lots of mixed emotions---the essence of good street shooting. (Street shooting is typified by wonderfully non-posed expressions, by its suddenness, its spontaneous appearances of emotion, its strange collisions of humanity suddenly occupying the same space, etc. Your Renaissance shots have lots of terrific street shots: I say "lots" rather than "all" because it also has pure portraiture, which is a different art altogether. But this---though a portrait---is pure street shooting: Ie, one second later, who knows how the shot would change. You got the moment, purely and quickly and vividly. A beaut.) The 'angry woman' actually may be looking beyond the person in front of her---she seems to be staring afar. And that's one of the reasons I liked this when it went up: The ambivalence of good street shooting. She's distressed, but we can't be 100% sure at what. The man on our right is looking in the same direction and he appears bemused (!), and the other man doesn't care, but seems to be pouring either a drink or maybe some polish for something he's carrying. And there's the lady in front with her back to us, all mystery, as she dominates the pic in a way, and yet we don't know what she's thinking. And then, that grotesque knight with horns---straight out of an Old English saga (or an Old Norse Saga, which is even cruder), like Beowulf, where lots of people are gored and killed, and the life is downright brutal. I bet he's having a big smile inside all that stuff. Either that, or he's dying of HEAT exhaustion! This is S. California---how did people SURVIVE this fair in all that garb??? I wish you could get pics of them the day it was over, collapsed in bed and not waking for 6 days...But In this series, it's great to see people in such fearsome costumes, having a normal moment with friends. Not that they didn't have such moments centuries ago; but your shots allow us to see those moments in a way that historical record never recorded. (Your series sets history straight---I like the sound of that!) And, can you imagine being in combat with those heavy outfits---the metal mesh on the right-guy, or that heavy mask on the left one? Wonderful colors here too. In fact, the staring-woman's red takes us right to the center of the shot, and it just right for her gaze (ie, passionate, inflamed). Which is why I started with this: It's all in a moment, it's very rich, and it's a real street capture of human emotion. And once again, fine work on clarifying the image, and making it so vivid. Oh---and we see mountains back there! I know they're in other of your shots, but often they're impeded by stands and signs and crowds, etc; whereas here they're unimpeded. A reminder of where this was shot---ie, not 16th C. London, but 21st C. Irwindale. A fine pic, Harry. Very rich and vividly clarified.