Old photographs

[bunn]

I have uploaded some old banquet photos here for those who may remember them.

The username and password are both taruithorn.

Obviously this isn't particularly to make them private, it's just I'd rather they didn't get picked up by search engines and displayed in random image searches.

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

To be young was very heaven, and all that.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Yes! I managed to avoid being in any of these photos! Woo-hoo!

Everyone looks scarily young - especially the boys. Men, I mean. The girls don't seem to have changed so much. I wonder if that means that we can all still pass for 21, or if we looked as if we were in our thirties even when we were students.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I have since found a small trove of Embarrassing LoA photos, but they were in a different folder when I was scanning so I haven't webbed them (yet)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

But you're not going to. *waves hand in Jedi-like fashion, and speaks meaningfully.* You do not want to put those photos on the web.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

LoA

???

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Don't celebrate too much, I'm pretty sure you feature in one, even if it is as little as your shoulder.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I was being told I looked middle-aged when I was in my teens.

[chainmailmaiden]

Bacchus and I got taken for being 21/22 last year, I put this down to our clean-living, sober lifestyle ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

A fellow-guest at a dinner party last year was (I think) genuinely shocked to hear that I was 40 :-)

*preens*

And a few years ago now, but Creatrix once opened the door to someone who asked if her mum or dad were at home!

Anyway, shouldn't you be thinking about the accruals? ;-)

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I remember (some of) those! I even feature in a couple. (Maybe that is not so good...) I would place them around the 1992 & 1993 banquets; the ones I'm in are certainly 1993, 'cause I remember what some people were wearing.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I would also place some of them at the 92 and 93 banquets. There is a mix of people I recognise and people who are completely strange to me. Everyone I do recognise looks scarily young. Tie this in with my first banquet being 94, and not meeting anyone in Taruithorn before Oxonmoot 93, and everything ties together.

Some of them are definitely from the 94 banquet, though. A comparison with my pictures shows too many people in identical outfits, with identical backgrounds, for them to have been taken at any other time.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't actually rmember the '94 banquet; of course this might be because I didn't attend, though on the other hand I might have attended but have forgotten for some reason...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting those. I recognise some of the faces - and, to echo the comments of others, "Doesn't everyone look young?" - but can someone put names to the others?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Rather embarrassingly, no, not all of them!

I am fairly sure that they span at least 3 banquets* and a punt party.

*I'm pretty sure that the blacked up Nazgul are from 1991 but that most of the rest are from 1992-3. Somewhere or other, I have a suspicion there are more photos of earlier events, but who knows where they have got to.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That would explain why I don't recognise more of them - my first banquet was in '94 (although I had met a few Taruithornites at the '93 Oxonmoot - kargicq and skordh for two, and possibly their partners for two more.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I just had a very quick look through my albums (in the 20 minutes I'm home for lunch) and fortunately I labelled the back of my photos. The blacked-up Nazguls are March 1992, from the Barad-dur banquet at New College. The Shire banquet was in March 1993, in Magdalen, which also accounts for quite a lot of your pictures.

We have far more pictures of Arthurian banquets than Taruithorn ones - including our fair share of embarrassing Bunn photos, I should add. I won't bother putting the albums away, in case anyone wants a nostalgia trip next weekend.

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

Ah! good to see the 1992 pictures (I'd been told about this banquet about 50 times by various people* trying to explain Taruithorn banquets to me during my first year, and the pictures are even funnier than I'd imagined).

I do remember the names of almost everyone in the 1993 pictures, if that helps. And I also remember exactly where I bought all the components of my costume, except for the waistcoat which was kindly loaned to me by Na-Lon.

*although you wouldn't think some of them remembered that much of it themselves, looking at the state of them in those photos!

[chainmailmaiden]

I can put a name to most of the people - apart from some of the people in the ones from March '92. Which ones don't you recognise and I'll see if I know them.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

No 1: everyone
No 2: the lady in the orange
No 3: the wizard
No 4: the chap in the smoking-jacket
No 5: the lady on the left, in the floral blouse
No 7 top: the chap on the right
No 8 middle: the two in the centre
No 9: the Nazgul and the violinist
No 11: the beard
No 12 bottom: the reader
No 13 top: almost everyone
No 14: both
No 15: both (but is that you on the right???)
No 16: everyone apart from Creatrix
No 17 bottom: Robin Hood and the archer

Feel free to reply by email if you don't want to give away too many real names here; but OTOH, other people might want to be told, as well!

[chainmailmaiden]

Now I feel very depressed at how thin I used to be :-(

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

But you still look great ;-)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

You are not alone. :-((( Woe are we.

Still, at least we WERE young and gorgeous!

More have appeared!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I do recognise many of these people, but there's a few beyond my ken, or dave for that matter. Ta.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

The top third of picture 8 isn't actually a Taruithorn event - it's my 20th birthday party. As well as a smattering of T members, there's a few people from my Traveller campaign, an odd DocSoc member and my best friend from Wrexham.

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the photos! I wasn't around at the time, but there are definitely some familiar faces in there...