The Fellowship of the Jedi

Let's take a break from the extreme sports of the Olympics and head back to the extreme nerdiness of Comic Con.  We started the day by meeting up at Kaldi's where I got an extra shot of espresso added to my mocha in anticipation of the excitement.  After that we headed back home to start getting ready.  It all started coming together when the capes, weapons, and details like Leia's hair and Luke's gloved hand came out.

After that first picture in our backyard, I knew we looked like a pretty good team (or fellowship, if you will).  Taylor took on the role of official photographer, and decided we needed to be in a more forest-looking environment for the rest of the shoot.  So we headed down to the park for our Forest Moon of Endor/Fangorn Forest backdrop.

And with those first long shots, we were on our journey.

We took full advantage of the location, and even recreated some iconic poses and scenes from the movies.

We continued on to the bridge and started doing more action shots.  We even did a few videos running down the hill and past the camera, and one from Gimli's point of view trailing behind us as we ran up the path.  "Dwarves are wasted on cross country!  Very dangerous over short distances."

Here we are fighting orcs.

And chasing after a band of Uruk-hai.

Lukolas slicing down a tree.

And Leiagorn ready to spring to action.

I have to say, we looked pretty good in our costumes, and this definitely got us pumped up for the actual event.  We had a lot of fun coming up with ideas for poses and yelling out movie quotes and getting into character.  A big thanks to Mom for helping us with last minute costume details, and to Taylor for his creative vision and photography skills.  Now we could be on our way downtown to the convention center!

(photos by t.hunt)