[Regia-NA] Unfortunate photos (was: viking bows)

[Tracie Brown]

Magnus said:
>If you happen on the old Smithsonian with the little bobcat 
>You will also see the Newsprint photography norm for 
>photographing the ugliest SCA women on site and printing it 
>every time.
>Some images simply stick with you for ever.

   Would that be the ugly stick?

>Fat, bespectacled, spectacular, bin-diving divas in belly 
>dance outfits made for size 28 at least. Had their yaps been 
>open no doubt they would have been all three buck-toothed as 
>well.

   Well, the ladies may have been size 28, but the outfits 
were made for far smaller.  And don't forget the walkie-
talkies.  And are you sure they had enough teeth to be buck-
toothed?

   I know this sounds mean, but this particular set of 
unfortunate photos has always grated on me because the same 
photographer spent several hours photographing me and several 
friends in every costume we brought.  If the idea had been to 
run photos of chicks in mundane belly dancing outfits (more 
or less), they had pictures of cute chicks in the same.  If 
they had wanted fat broads, they had fat broads (like me) in 
all sorts of good outfits.  If they had wanted to show a 
juxteposition of medieval and modern, they had pictures of us 
alighting our RV. etc, etc.  I've never figured out why they 
ran those photos in an otherwise friendly article.  <sigh>  
It goes along with the other SCA newsprint convention, 
running photos of fighters in the absolute awfulest armor and 
fighting form.

  Does Regia ever run into similar problems, such as a nice 
article on Regia with photos of furry barbarians from 
somewhere else?

-- Tracie