NWC30

Finally. After nearly one month and almost six hundred photos uploaded, I’m done with this year’s Norwescon! As fun as it is, as much as I enjoy being there and playing photographer, and as great as it is to get comments from people as they find themselves in the photos…man, this took a while! Ah, well — good-natured grousing aside, it’s well worth it, and I’m looking forward to next year’s.

I’d already mentioned finishing up Friday’s photos a couple weeks ago. Last night, I finally uploaded the last of my photos from Saturday, the only other day I was there.

Saturday’s shots are pretty obviously divided into three sections:

• Random costumes as I wandered around the lobby and hallways of the hotel,
• the Hoedown in Space Saturday night dance at the end,
• and, of course, the post-Masquerade costume gallery takes up the majority of the set. There were lots of great costumes this year. A few personal favorites, in no particular order other than where they appeared in the lineup:
  • The Rocketeer,
  • the women of Starfleet (complete with Command Panties),
  • the Faun family (cutest family ever!),
  • the Satyr Handlers (especially the snow leopard and wiccabeast, evidently something of a central character for the group concept),
  • the Vorlon,
  • artvixn‘s geisha kitsune,
  • Final Fantasy IX’s Freya in ‘trance’ mode (shiny!),
  • and, of course, the jaw-dropping Dar’Rushk the manticore (who battled a mercenary and Xena and Gabrielle, but befriended a unicorn).

Of course, that’s just a small (well, okay, not that small) selection of what was at Con. I did my best to get the best shots I could of everyone I could, and had a lot of fun doing it.

Also (and especially important for those people I got photos of): because I release my shots under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa license (attribution/non-commercial/sharealike), you may share (copy, re-post, distribute, or transmit) the photos, provided that you give me credit as photographer (preferably by linking back to the photo’s page on Flickr, or at least to my Flickr, LiveJournal, or personal pages, but simply by name — Michael Hanscom or djwudi — will work in a pinch). Thanks very much for respecting this — since I’m not trying to make money off this photography thing*, what little recognition I can get is very appreciated!

Thanks much, everyone — enjoy the photos, and I’ll run into you again next year (if not sooner)!

• Though, if anyone would like to purchase high-quality prints of their shots, I wouldn’t be averse to discussing it… ;)

Finally — all my shots from Friday of this year’s Norwescon are processed and uploaded (some shots are mildly NSFW — no outright nudity, some panties-and-pasties). There’s a few random hall costumes to start off with, and shots from the Stardance towards the end. However, the majority of Friday’s shots are from the Fannish Fetish Fashion Show: fashion sets from Notorious Curves and Fetishwear.net; burlesque performances by The Von Foxies‘ Heidi Von Haught and Pidgeon Von Tramp, Miz Ginger Snapz, and Estella E’Strange; plus Project Fetishway and Fannish Idol; all hosted by the lovely Betty Rage.

I’ll be the first to admit that, try as I might, my shots likely aren’t going to be winning any photography awards. ;) Still, I do the best I can, I don’t think they came out too horribly, and every time I do something like this I figure out a few more things to make things better the next time. Many thanks to spitkitten for giving me the opportunity to shoot the show!

Meanwhile, work continues on Saturday’s shots — and since Saturday has the post-Masquerade costume photoshoot, there’s many more photos yet to come!