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valerian and I spent the day at the Scottish Games yesterday.

The clan tents and highland military tents. An amusing highlight of the day was walking up to the Seaforth Highlander tent and having a woman wearing all black that was working in the tent insist on introducing us to her goth children, who, as it turned out I have photographed at Sin City before. Goths amongst the Picts - lol.

( Large [800 KB] panorama of the games )

Scottish Games 2/3

People around the games.



( six more )

Scottish Games 3/3

The Heavies.

The Sheaf Toss. That's a bag a sawdust. I didn't catch the exact weight they were using for the event, but the sheaf is usually between 16 and 20 lbs. For the sake of reference, the very heaviest ten-pin bowling balls are 16 lbs. The idea is to pitch it over a cross-bar for height.

( Three more of the sheaf toss )

56 lb. Weight for Height That chunk of metal he's lifting is solid and weighs 56 lbs. For reference sake, this is about the same weight as dozen full two-litre pop-bottles. It's being thrown over a cross-bar for height.

( Two more of the 56lb. weight for height )

16 lb. Hammer Again, that might as well be a heavy 10-pin bowling ball on the end of the stick.

( One more of the hammer )

Caber Toss Here's the one everyone loves. The competition caber the heavies were tossing was 19' long and 105 lbs. The two pictures under the cut are actually of the qualifying caber, which in this case was only 16' and 105 lbs. What you see in this picture is the women's and novice caber, which was 16' and 95 lbs. The idea with the caber toss to flip the log end-over-end for accuracy. Distance has nothing to do with it. A perfect throw will "turn" exactly straight ahead of the person making the toss. The accuracy of the throw is rated in a range from 9 to 3 as they appear on the face of a clock, assuming the thrower is in the 6 o'clock position, with a perfect toss being 12. A judge stands directly behind the person tossing the caber to make the call. The person who made the last throw stands the caber up for the next person, which is what you are seeing  in this picture. This is a tough event to photograph because just in picking up the caber and trying to keep it in balance to get started the competitors wander significantly around the field so spectators have to keep their distance, but there are a couple good ones under the cut.

( Two more of the caber toss )

New Dark Canada Illustration

BDSM Based loosely on this photo of kitsune_13 and langsuir from the Fallen II fashion show three years ago. Only two more illustrations left in this project: "Dark Metal" which I already have drawn and just need to do the Photoshop trickery to, and "Noise Punk" which I don't as yet have a clue how I will illustrate.