Down the Cosplay rabbit hole

Picture this: It's a normal Saturday, 8am, raining. You take a look outside, and a mass of umbrellas is queued all the way around both sides of NTU's sports centre. There can be only one explanation: Cosplay is in town.

By mid-afternoon, the crowds were thinning out but there was still plenty to see, so I popped on down to snap a few shots myself.





This time, contact lenses were out in force, and many were using more subtle shading rather than block colour as I'd seen in the past. Although my point and shoot camera can't really capture that sort of detail, this young lady's bashful blues were really quite stunning in person:



This couple used subtle red shaded contacts:





As usual, there were many great costumes that included a stylized weapon of one sort or another:















There was also the usual assortment of elegant traditional costumes, cute frilly numbers, and mysteriously masked gentlemen:







Ever a child of the 80s, I love the fluffy skirts sported by this pair:





Although some groups work together really well in putting together their costumes and poses, it can be a bit of a pot shot trying to get photos with them all looking in the same direction:















This Harry Potter threesome managed to pull off looking in the same direction - in this case, directly towards me:





Some of the characters use quite intense expressions in their poses. I love to capture their faces while they are changing positions. Sometimes I get lucky and snap them sharing a joke with their friends or the photographers; their faces light up with a smile and look quite different:









Always strange, always strangely normal; Cosplay.