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[Liam]

Great photo's.... I know Lethbridge well, as our Daughter and family live there. Usually it is too windy and dry for mosquitoes to be a problem! We visited Writing on Stone a couple of years ago, and I was kilted as well - had to hold my hands at my sides to prevent revealing more than I wanted to.

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[Barb T]

Hi Shedlock,

Just be very careful when you lay your kilts out on a big flat surface like the floor and then press them. In your picture, the pleats in each of the kilts are splayed in a fan - if you press them that way, they will make the dreaded "wave" when you put the kilt on. When you press a kilt, you should be absolutely sure that the pleats are truly all parallel to one another when you press and that each pleat reveal is exactly the same width from the bottom of the fell to the bottom of the kilt. if you lay the kilt flat with the pleats splayed, you'll press in a reveal that is tapered (wider at the bottom of the kilt and narrower at the bottom of the fell). You don't want that. If you want to press your kilts on a big flat surface, you have to really work at laying them out so that the pleats are parallel and not splayed - you'll get kind of a hump at the hips. It's actually easier to hang the fell end of the kilt off the end of an ironing board and then work all the pleats in a particular section into parallelism on the deck of the ironing board and press that section. Then you won't get a splay, and you won't have to deal with the hump at the hips when you pull all the pleats parallel.

[Sir Didymous]

I forgot two showing off my hand made Broad bonnet!


When this was taken, it was 9pm MST, but also 38degrees centigrade still. Super hot!


The kilt I am wearing is my 21 year old 'tank' in the Roxburgh Red (ancient). It actually has blue in it - but its the devil itself to try and photograph! I have perhaps two photos in total which show the colours fairly accurately.

Do any of you have any advice for photographing tricky tartans? We tried to use the flash - but that made matters worse!

For those who are curious - these photos are taken at Writing on Stone - which is sacred area to our First Nations brethren.

There are stone-drawings, but mostly all we saw was beautiful scenery and A LOT of mosquitoes!

My wife is currently in a photography Color Management class. She uses me as her default subject for the million plus (it seems) photo shoots each week. Some of the shots involve kilts or other plaid items. The professor's advice was to shoot using the Adobe RGB color space when plaid is involved as it has the most colors in it's spectrum.