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bay area cosplayer picnic 2003:: page 1 of 9...
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August 23, 2003 - Robert W. Crown State Beach - Alameda, CA

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Bear with me, this is the first version, and may be subject to revisions. I've hammered this out quite rapidly in order to get out the picnic pictures within days of the event, so if it's sloppy, it'll be cleaned up soon! (And I've got a lot of other pictures to post up elsewhere!)

The pictures in this section conform to the Raider3.com Picture Standards (version 1.05), with the exception of the following:

  • Images have been scaled down to 400 x 300 resolution instead of 320 x 200 resolution, from the original 1600 x 1200 as captured digitally.
  • Images are not watermarked with “©raider3.com,”
  • and reproduction permission has been granted for use elsewhere by participants of the 2003 Cosplayer Picnic. Feel free to link back here.

Currently I'm Thinking About:
Whether or not to make the links to cosplayer personal sites, the Crown Beach info page, and any other links not page navigation-related open up in separate browser windows. It's not implemented yet.

Introduction:
This little gathering was organized by Steph, a.k.a. Mordsith, and was about three months in planning. (Based upon initial posts in the Cosplay.com forums.) Around 30 or so people were in attendance (My estimate), and there was a lot of food, fun, and a few surprises for everyone in attendance.

This was one of the first sights I saw when I came up to the site with Aoshi Shinomori (appearing as Kazuya from Hand Maid May), and PawTeeGal (appearing as Hikaru Shidou from Magic Knights Rayearth), and for some strange reason (Showing off the fact that I am a shameless child of the media culture), everytime I see a row of sailboats lines up at the docks, I always think of one thing: The opening to the television show Gilligan's Island, and the accompanying theme song.

Unfortunately, this picture also shows off the limitations of my digital camera, as it's limited to a 5 X digital zoom, so my apologies that you have to squint to make out the boats. ^_^;

Here's a shot of part of our group, standing on the beach, looking out over the waves. This was one of my initial shots to set up to show a group of us, and I apologize for showing so many um... backside shots... I don't know, I just keep thinking of the ending shot of Duran Duran's “Save A Prayer” music video, and it looked better than this. Oh, well.

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