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Picture #1: Battle Snail vs. Battle Bunny Thumb: 450x300, 49,989 bytes (49K) Small: 900x623, 120,424 bytes (118K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2016, All rights reserved Olympus E-M1-I camera with Olympus-m43 12-40mm f/2.8 lens f/5.0, ISO 200, 1/200 sec, 27.0mm, auto mode, vivid color, SHQ, center weight metering, bias 0.3, image stabilization (mode 4), noise reduction auto, noise filter low, anti-shock 35mm equivalent focal length 54.0mm Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on August 21, 2016 10:19:09 Last modified on August 23, 2016 at 22:22 Kate Holly-Clark has come out with a series of battle snails and battle bunnies taken from medieval manuscripts. I decided to make a battle snail and a battle bunny. One of the battle bunny pictures was of a bunny with a bagpipe, so that formed the basis of battle bunny. Obviously, the bunny had to be Scottish. Liz made him a kilt. We decided to call him Alistair, which is a Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic Alasdair. The latter is a Scottish Gaelic form of the English Alexander. The battle snail was a little harder, since snails are primarily ridden in the illustrations, and they didn't have weapons of their own. We decided the snail had to be French, since the French consider escargot a delicacy. At some point, I hope to fashion a beret for the snail, and put on a pencil mustache, and give the snail a proper French name. Of course if the snails are French, it immediately led me to the French taunter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I figure, if the French knights and their snails win the battle, they will dine on rabbit (lapin) afterwards, and if they lose, I would imagine they will eat escargot, and have to train a new herd of battle snails. Here are the battle snail and battle bunny books, if you want your own copy: |
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Picture #1: Sunset clouds over Littleton, MA Thumb: 450x300, 21,485 bytes (21K) Small: 900x623, 53,740 bytes (53K), (html file) Copyright, Michael Meissner 2016, All rights reserved Samsung S5 phone f/2.2, ISO 125, 1/30 sec, 4.8mm, auto mode, center weight metering 35mm equivalent focal length 31.0mm Programs used: gimp Taken by Michael Meissner on August 17, 2016 19:55:15 Last modified on September 18, 2016 at 00:06 |
