Queen Mary games

[cessna152towser]

Excellent action shots.

[OC Richard]

Grizbass you really have a talent for capturing the action, beauty, form, and strength of these events! I can't even get a decent pic of a pipe band on the march... a band always looks best at full stride but I seem to always click at the wrong time.

Actually the first pic I took the weekend was in the Will Call line, disturbing at first, until I realized it was Rusty the stiltwalker and his partner's equipment



Now here's the pipe band person's view of the Queen Mary Scots Fest 2014.

We tend to hang out all day in our band tents. There were a whole row of these, which is cool because we get to catch up on all the news from the people in all the other bands, not so cool because many of us never leave our area and don't experience the rest of the event.

Early Saturday morning, the bands arriving and setting up their tents (easy-ups, however you spell that). Here is Wasatch and District, from "within the shadow of The Everlasting Hills"



Kevin Blandford Memorial



Our tent, the Long Beach Fire Department Pipe Band, with our lead tip, Dale Ritchie, a Glaswegian, having a laugh



Time to tune up! Cameron Tillery of Kevin Blandford Memorial giving some instructions to their Grade 5 band



Get air in those pipes! A few rounds of Green Hills of Tyrol to hear how the chanters are going today



Something's not right, and it's being fixed by tonemeister Steve Megarity, reedmaker, member of the LA Scots Grade 1, formerly of Field Marshal Montgomery, and a native of Norn Iron



The Los Angeles Scottish Grade 1, the host band, warming up their enormous pipe corps (25 pipers), in advance of performing at the opening ceremonies. Hmmm I think I see some non-LA Scots bagcovers



Yes indeed, Pasadena Scots on the left, City of Chicago on the right. The personnel of bands tends to change season to season, and it appears these two haven't received their LA Scots bagcovers yet