Trolley's B-Day '07

Thumbnail: Rock 'N Bowl alley 
Thumbnail: Aaron and Karen 
Thumbnail: My shoes in blacklight 
Thumbnail: The girls bowl 
Thumbnail: Making a wish 

Since he’s nev­er been bowl­ing before, we decid­ed to go for Trolley’s 30th.

Rock ‘N Bowl is an inter­est­ing phen­emo­nen. Aaron thinks it’s for the 14-year-olds to get all hooched up and feel like they’re going club­bing. Didn’t stop us — Trolley includ­ed — from get­ting card­ed at our table when pitch­ers.

Five-pin is hard­er than I remem­ber. Maybe because I was try­ing to spin every­thing, so it would either hit the left pins, or com­plete­ly gut­ter on the right when I tried to adjust. For our two teams, it was a pret­ty close match through the night.

For the pho­tographs, I tried to play around with light set­tings. 2nd-cur­tain-sync would­n’t work for me, and I did­n’t real­ize that there’s a set­ting for it on the 580EX flash which over­rides cam­era set­tings. As a result, the pic­tures are most­ly flash-less to cap­ture the mood of the wild­ly swing­ing light.

The next day, I dis­cov­ered that I some­how pulled my left glute and right groin mus­cles. A gen­tle reminder on Trolley’s birth­day that we’re all get­ting old­er.

3 comments

  1. glute ow.

    pic­tures, wow

    love it when motion reg­is­ters in an image and peo­ple as trans­par­ent. It allows pho­tos to see more than eyes, dif­fer­ent than a painter would cap­ture as well.

  2. Heehee, we went bowl­ing on Alex’s 30th and I had nev­er done 10 pin with real bowl­ing balls, like with the lit­tle holes in them. Took me for­ev­er to find a ball that was light enough for me too. Yeah, shoul­der was­n’t feel­ing so great the next morn­ing :p very sad…

  3. @Pearl — Until you men­tioned it, I nev­er real­ized that such pho­tos have the abil­i­ty to cap­ture motion. I’ve always been one to use quick shut­ter speeds to cap­ture still­ness, even for mov­ing objects, so this is some­thing I’ll have to explore fur­ther now.

    @Sophia — Yeah, I don’t quite like the 10 pin either for the same rea­son. The arm would just be anoth­er sore limb. I’m pret­ty sure Jen was hap­py about doing five-pin too. Pat was the point leader on our team, but said that five-pin is a lot hard­er than he remem­bers.

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