Luke I am your Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit

Some amazing photos one finds on the internet never get explained or get attribution. Sometimes, however, a back story emerges. Apparently Iceland has a state religion and Darth Vader joined/crashed one of their processions. Your editor enjoys a funny image as much as the next fool  but cherishes first hand accounts, attributions and information that make things REAL.

Thanks to Mr Karl Gunnarsson for posting info about the event with his flickr set of photos. I’m kicking myself for not publishing these Good Friday.

Photo by Karl Gunnarsson.

Photo by Karl Gunnarsson.

Photo by Karl Gunnarsson.

Text below from Karl Gunnarsson’s Flickr setDarth Vader seems to want to join the priests of the State Church of Iceland as they marched in procession to the cathedral for their annual congress.

Unfortunately, the priests didn’t want to play with Darth. Fortunately, I was there to capture it in photographs with a friend’s Nikkor 18-200VR lens. Unfortunately, the more a lens does the less I seem to remember to keep tabs on it (I’m supposed to zoom this thing as well?) and the photos suffer.

I didn’t notice that the light was a lot worse by the cathedral (it sucks in light, I swear) and the photos from there, on top of everything else, are shot at a much too low shutter speed. Fortunately (sorry!) the VR saved me from my own shakes.

Darth Vader in Iceland. Unattributed.

Darth Vader in Iceland. Unattributed.