My Photography Journal » People http://mytradersjournal.com/photography Pictures From My World Thu, 27 May 2010 12:24:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Stone Mountain Highland Games Pictures http://mytradersjournal.com/photography/2008/10/25/stone-mountain-highland-games-pictures/ http://mytradersjournal.com/photography/2008/10/25/stone-mountain-highland-games-pictures/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:45:13 +0000 Alex Fotopoulos http://mytradersjournal.com/photography/?p=59 I took all of these pictures with my Canon PowerShot SD870 IS Digital ELPH at the 2008 Stone Mountain Highland Games just outside of Atlanta, GA.  The Scotish festival is held every October and offers great bagpipe music and sporting activities such as the caber toss, sheeth toss and hammer toss.

Bagpipe competitionBagpipers

Canadian Mounties
Canadian Mounties

 More bagpipe competition – Canadian Mounties BandCanadian Bagpipers 

Hammer tossHammer Toss 

Fiddler, before Bagpipers took the fieldFiddler 

Vendor field for various Scotish trinkets, tartans, snacks and anything else Scotish you can think ofShopping for Scottish Gifts

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Olympia Greece

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