I love Star Wars. I grew up on Star Wars. I thought the Force was real: When I was six or seven, I tried to make the pantry door open as I sat and stared at it from the kitchen table five feet away. On multiple occasions.
That’s a true story.
(As a mature adult, I now know the Force isn’t real, but it’d be cool if it were. And I still love Star Wars.)
So I was thrilled to be assigned to photograph local Jedis. With little kids. And lightsabers. On May the Fourth, naturally.
Belated photos:
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Capital City Jedi Knights member Aaron Chernak waits as fellow Jedi Maranda Lender retrieves her lightsaber from a car trunk at the York Emporium on Friday, May 4, 2012. Capital City Jedi Knights, a non-profit performance group based in the Harrisburg area, does charity work by choreographing lightsaber fights and drawing in crowds for events at which they entertain.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Capital City Jedi Knights members Aaron Chernak and Maranda Lender demonstrate some lightsaber tactics to a small crowd in the York Emporium on Saturday, May 4, 2012.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Laura Owens, 10 of Latimore Township in Adams County, mouths pleadingly to her father Sam, off-camera, after she found out during a Saturday, May 4, 2012, presentation at the York Emporium that the Capital City Jedi Knights and possibly Darth Vader were scheduled to make an appearance the next day at a comic book store.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Capital City Jedi Knights member Maranda Lender teaches some lightsaber techniques to Katarina Holmes, 8 of West Manchester Township, in the York Emporium parking lot on Saturday, May 4, 2012.
© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Dressed as Princess Leia, Laura Owens, 10 of Latimore Township in Adams County, takes a break from lightsaber training to watch a nearby Sith lord duke it out with another youngster in the York Emporium parking lot on Saturday, May 4, 2012.
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Great photos!!