Three – No Four – Vikings I Met Last Month

For this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge, Ritva has chosen to focus on portraits. Difficult. Because it IS difficult, and many of the few I do take are of family, whom I don’t usually feature on my blog. There are the images I secretly take whilst out and about, but few of those quite measure up as portraits so much as someone-doing-something-or-just-walking.

Then I remembered York Viking Festival, which I recently featured on one of my posts. So back we go, to a day when photography was not only permitted, but encouraged.

Tips on how to bump off your enemy, Viking style.

Tips on throwing a clay pot, Viking style.

Tips on working in wood, Viking style.

This last set is for Leanne’s Monochrome Madness, because she invites us to take one photo, and crop it three different ways. So – two solo portraits, one two-handed portrait, all for the price of one shot of a Viking and his slave industriously working together.

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41 thoughts on “Three – No Four – Vikings I Met Last Month”

  7. You found a great set of portraits for the Lens Artists team AND a clever exercise in cropping for Monochrome Madness – a win / win 😀 I especially liked how you created completely different portraits through that judicious cropping!

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    1. They were all extremely amiable. Especially the slave-master, who went to school with one of my daughters, it turned out. I bet he never said he wanted to be a Viking when he grew up!

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  14. Great set of images, Margaret! Isn’t it great when we participate in these challenges and end up managing to do something but we don’t think we can particularly well! love that first, more contrasty, image of Viking man and the one of your granddaughter

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