Vancon 2009 :: J2 Panel: growyourwings

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Vancon 2009 :: J2 Panel

Sep 01, 2009 18:40

Vancon 2009
J2 Panel
(link to VanCon 2009 Master Post)

At this moment I'm not remembering much detail about the Q&A from the J2 Panel. Perhaps stuff will occur to me as I go through these photos.

(Note: Feel free to use photos for fan artwork. Please credit me. I'd love to see anything done with the photos if you feel like letting me know. I will be posting links to zip files to the VanCon 2009 Master Post as well.)

I do have some random comments:

- I loved seeing the SPN crew and their families there. Some showed up on Saturday, but most of them showed up on Sunday. It felt like a mutual love fest between the crew and audience. We applauded each other. Both Jensen and Misha acknowledged the crew when they came out for their respective panels.

- I was sitting WAAYYYY (WAY) over on the left side of the stage. I was only in the 4th row, but my seat was so far over that I had to turn almost 90 degrees to minimize the strain on my neck. I was fortunate enough to get a very good camera lens (Canon 20-700mm F2.8 IS) with a monopod (thank god.) But any very slight movement by the boys on stage meant blurry photos. That's why I don't have as many photos this year of the boys laughing like I did for the LA Con. If they were laughing, the photos were blurry. :-( But, as I said, thank God for the lens, because I was able to get some decent photos anyway. I just really like the more active photos. The boys are beautiful of course and I love those photos as well. But I really enjoy seeing their personalities in action.

- As I said in my post about the photo ops, Creation had to skip Jared's panel because of the length of time being taken for the photo ops. So Jensen came out first. I'll post more about that in a separate post. When Jared joined him, there was some confusion about whether Jensen was staying (for a J2 Panel) or going. Jensen started to drag over a chair while he was trying to figure it out, once he realized he was staying, he stopped dragging the chair and sat down. So the spacing between the chairs was totally happenstance. Partway through the panel, someone called out for them to move their chairs closer together so folks could get photos with both of them in it. As you'll see in my photos, if one of the boys was in focus, the other was not. The boys did a schtick about moving the chairs together--which I commented on the appropriate photos below.

- You'll notice the boys looking like they are frowning sometimes. I was wondering about that and then I realized....Creation originally was going to have Adam read out submitted questions. Well Misha helped to through a monkey wrench in that (the rebel :-) Jensen did answer questions read by Adam. But when Jared came out there was discussion about talking directly to the audience (with comments by one or both of the boys about how sure they were that the audience would behave themselves--said with tongue in cheek smiles.) Because it wasn't pre-arranged like that, the audience questioners did not go up to mics. Rather mics were brought to them whereever they were in the audience. That meant when the boys were listening to the questions they had to focus on the person asking--who may be standing far off in the distance. Since the only times the boys stayed still was when they were listening to questions, that meant those were the only times my photos weren't blurry. Therefore there's a good number of my photos with very SERIOUS expressions on their faces while they were concentrating on hearing the questions and seeing the person asking.

I'm sure there will be plenty of other reports (and *cough* vids *cough*) to cover what was asked and answered. Here are the photos I took. I'm amazed they turned out as well as they did considering the distance.

Above: I have more individual photos of Jensen to show in my Jensen post (which I haven't done yet.) For any individual Jared photos see the post I made here earlier today.)

Above: This photo starts the bit where the boys were asked to move their chairs closer together. The next several photos (some very blurry) have Jared making an elaborate show of reluctantly turning his chair to move it closer and Jensen putting on distasteful faces while he's doing it.

Above: I sure wish I had some of these in better focus. I'm sure someone closer will have gotten it though.

See? Everyone's happy!

Above: Jensen is concentrating on someone off in the distance who is asking a question. I love the Dean-esque look while he's concentrating.

Above: See? *SLIGHTEST* movement and all I got was blur. :( So no laughing for me--just the serious, but pretty!, when they are still.

Above: Smiles! with very little blur! \O/

Above: When the Ghostfacers were on the previous day, they left a card for Sam & Dean. Jensen brought it out and held it up and read it. I don't remember the words, I'm sure someone else will post it. You can see AJ & Travis in the photo and they are making a hand gesture.