Ha, my ability to get action shots comes down to by the time of that album, about four years of serious practice and $2k of equipment investment. I think I shot that bout on a Nikon D7100 and a Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 lens. Some of the bouts I shot, I also used remote strobes, which are not only $$$$ but also hard to master, but I was able to borrow the remote triggers from work at least.
I loved a lot of things about derby, and hated a lot of things about derby, and it's not that I don't want to sum it up, so much as that I don't really know how. I wrote about it on here from 2007 thru 2013 or so, but nowhere concisely. It eats your life, is the thing, it's 20 hours a week of commitment, and it's got all kinds of shit that goes along with it. But I had a good time and got great reflexes, so.
It was part of my body-acceptance journey, too, though I'd started that with various online movements already-- most of which were via websites now-defunct. (i did join Tumblr to participate in the Fatshion February thing that fatshionista on Livejournal had been hosting but had given up.) That's also a long story, and an old one, but in short-- solidarity!
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Date: 2018-12-18 04:58 pm (UTC)I loved a lot of things about derby, and hated a lot of things about derby, and it's not that I don't want to sum it up, so much as that I don't really know how. I wrote about it on here from 2007 thru 2013 or so, but nowhere concisely. It eats your life, is the thing, it's 20 hours a week of commitment, and it's got all kinds of shit that goes along with it. But I had a good time and got great reflexes, so.
It was part of my body-acceptance journey, too, though I'd started that with various online movements already-- most of which were via websites now-defunct. (i did join Tumblr to participate in the Fatshion February thing that fatshionista on Livejournal had been hosting but had given up.) That's also a long story, and an old one, but in short-- solidarity!