Roller Derby Players

I asked Magnum (the fellow in the first shot) what the guys who play roller derby call themselves (since the gals are roller girls, I assumed there was similar nomenclature for the guys). Turns out there isn't, and after a few minutes of discussion, this is what was settled on. I thought about using a pun, but decided not to.

So yeah. We've got ourselves male roller derby here in St. Louis now--the GateKeepers. I went to their practice last night, and got these shots after practice. I did a lot more tinkering with these than usual, but I think it worked out pretty well. The green overlay is pretty close to the team color, which is why I picked it.

And more shots are up over on my flickr page, so go check them out! And if you want to see the GateKeepers play, their first bout is on March 20.

Dave

It is Balloon!

If anyone has a scorecard at home, this marks the third time young Christopher has made it to the blog. Weird. Anyways, I was shooting a party last night, and he was there, making good use of all those balloons laying around. I didn't crop too much out of the frame. What you see is more or less what I had, and it's a little quirky, which is probably why I like it.

Dave

(by the by, double post tonight, so be sure to scroll down)

Tattoo You, pt. 3

I think this officially marks the end of all the pictures I wanted to use from that day in the Loop back in August. These two gentlemen were selling CDs of their band (the name of which escapes me), and were nice enough to let me do whatever it is I do.

It turns out that shots of tattoos on arms are trickier than I thought. I've yet to come up with a good position that looks interesting, and not too forced. Surely such a thing exists!

Dave

Ice to Meet You, Pt. 2 (pt. 2)

As promised, here are a few more shots from last weekend's ice-related on goings in the Loop. There was a mime! Gals in goofy outfits showing off their hula hoop skills! And a dude with tattoos on his face busking. I don't remember him singing all that well, but he sang with a lot of passion, so I can't fault him too much. And he had tattoos on his face!

So now that you've seen these, you can head in the flickr direction and see more (if you haven't already).

Dave

Ice to Meet You, Pt. 2

There was an ice carnival down in the Loop over the weekend, and when I saw the words "ice sculptures" and "chainsaws," I knew I had to be there. It was, overall, a pretty cool (ha!) event. Thankfully, there was a lot of other stuff going on, so I got some other (n)ice shots as well, which I'll probably put up later this week.

Dave

Ice to Meet You

I didn't take any other pictures of people on this little endeavor today, so I broke my no self-portrait rule to tease the pictures I put up over at my flickr page. Scroll down a bit to find the link, then go check 'em out!


Dave

Care Bear Stare!

Alright, everybody, on three: awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww(www[wwwwww]ww).

So Katrina (see previous post!) and I had a deal of sorts--she let me be all goofy with the lights, and I came over and took pictures of her daughter, Winter, with what is the most Care Bears I've ever seen. I don't think there was any real reason for it, but it sure was fun. Winter was a good sport about it all, which made things a lot easier.

I don't have time right now to check all the pictures I've shot in the past few years, but these easily rank up amongst the most adorable. And it was fun to see how many of the old Care Bears I could name*.


Dave


*not many, though I did recognize a lot of them, for whatever that's worth.