STEAM PUNK
Our last full day in Lincoln we had a relaxed morning with Tina and Martin and then were driven to town to see the third day of the SteamPunk Festival, a yearly festival in Lincoln on the three day August bank holiday the biggest holiday of the summer.
Steam Punk is a mixture of Victorian fashion, the imagination of the new steam powered era and wild creativity. It is celebrated in a number of places in the world, but the biggest celebration of all is in Lincoln, England, with participants coming from all over the UK and Europe for a four day festival. I would have imagined it to be an young person’s blowout, but it wasn’t. Most of the participants in their elaborate costumes were older, even elderly people, and almost everyone was eager to be photographed. So I had a great time photographing people in their costumes which were elaborate and quite expensive, not Halloween costumes at all.
Everyone was having a marvelous time as they strutted their stuff and suddenly I had a flashback to the the huge line of MAGA Trump devotees that I photographed in October waiting to her Trump speak in the Asheville Civic Center. Most of those people in their red white and blue costumes had driven a long way to a number of Trump rallies and enjoyed communing with their fellow Trump worshipers as much as listening to the barely coherent rambling of Trump. Both groups were part of a tribe and were having great fun. These SteamPunk people came every year for the high point of their summer, and were even said to have a different elaborate costume for each day.
Here are photographs of some of their costumes.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 