August 23, 2003 - Robert W. Crown State Beach - Alameda, CA

A Special Presentation Of:

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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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