What a perfect idea: a birthday party at a roller rink with your favorite heavy-hitting rock band, Caltrop.
Great job Francisco...
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The full gallery is up on flickr: WHEELS & CALTROP PHOTOS
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Here are some animated gifs of Caltrop. I put them as separate links to help the page load faster and you avoid getting the eye scramble vapors.
CALTROP GIF 1
CALTROP GIF 2
CALTROP GIF 3
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SELF-EFFACING DISCLAIMER
[you can skip this because you don't really care]
In the flickr gallery, I combed out the pure garbage and kept most of the ones where at least you could tell there are humans in them. That way, people could still go, "hey I think that's me! or me being eaten and then thrown back up by a giant squid?" I don't have much experience with flash because I hate the shadowless blam! of an on-camera flash picture, however, I found an old speedlite flash of my mother's, and eventhough it won't work with my camera, I ordered a cheap(ly made) chinese remote trigger that allows me to get the flash off the camera. If you can get the flash even just 2 or 3 feet (arm's length) away from the lens, that will help create some shadow lines and produce a better picture than !blam!
If I had been thinking clearly, I could have set up at a better spot in the rink to get more lateral motion. At the time, I was kind of like a cross between a kid in a candy store and a kid playing a prank. I just kept looking around, grinning and pushing my flash on a cardboard box further out into traffic.
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No disco balls were harmed in the making of these photos.
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Here are some of the photos that I singled out to torture with my photoshop death ray, disrupting their once-calm pixel matrix of ignorance and blasting them into the FUTURE:
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