Yesterday Riley and I went to the Monster Truck show. This time we went with his Cub Scout Pack. The seats were at one end and I was worried they wouldn't be as good as ours last year (down close on the 50-yard line). Fortunately, the Rose Garden is small enough that there really isn't a bad seat. Not great for the trucks because they can't do a lot, but good for us. I'm glad about that because these tickets were part of a group rate which means they weren't as expensive! WOOHOO!
We had a great time! Some trucks just seemed to be going through the motions, others really put on a good show. This year instead of the dirt bikes, they had two robot transformer cars, one good, one evil. They did battle by shooting each other. We were glad we had our Bose noise canceling headphones on, those canon shots were LOUD! I took some photos, though it was VERY dark. I set my camera to ISO mode and let it figure out what to do. The good news is I got some photos. The bad news is many are at 3200 which is horribly grainy. BUT, as I've come to realize over the years, I'd rather have a photo like that than no memory of the event at all. AND I got lucky - I got a photo of the evil robot getting a hole blown in it, lots of sparks flying all over. I'll upload it later (need to sharpen it up a bit).
We also got the Pit Pass which means we got to see the cars up close. That was fun, Riley likes that part. It was just the right amount of time because as it got long and Riley was getting bored, it ended. And what an ending. Grave Digger was last, did a few things, then was going to do a big jump and ended up crashing his car on its' side. It was great!
I downloaded my photos and saw I took 706!! That's because I changed the setting to sports mode and continuous, so as a truck took off over the cars and went high in the air, I took anywhere from 5-15 photos. That worked great! I was able to get some very cool photos. But of course with that many photos, it means it's going to take me some time to edit them and decide which ones I want to upload. I don't think I'll send all of them to Flickr. ;) When I do get them uploaded, I'll be sure to blog about it.
We had a great time! Some trucks just seemed to be going through the motions, others really put on a good show. This year instead of the dirt bikes, they had two robot transformer cars, one good, one evil. They did battle by shooting each other. We were glad we had our Bose noise canceling headphones on, those canon shots were LOUD! I took some photos, though it was VERY dark. I set my camera to ISO mode and let it figure out what to do. The good news is I got some photos. The bad news is many are at 3200 which is horribly grainy. BUT, as I've come to realize over the years, I'd rather have a photo like that than no memory of the event at all. AND I got lucky - I got a photo of the evil robot getting a hole blown in it, lots of sparks flying all over. I'll upload it later (need to sharpen it up a bit).
We also got the Pit Pass which means we got to see the cars up close. That was fun, Riley likes that part. It was just the right amount of time because as it got long and Riley was getting bored, it ended. And what an ending. Grave Digger was last, did a few things, then was going to do a big jump and ended up crashing his car on its' side. It was great!
I downloaded my photos and saw I took 706!! That's because I changed the setting to sports mode and continuous, so as a truck took off over the cars and went high in the air, I took anywhere from 5-15 photos. That worked great! I was able to get some very cool photos. But of course with that many photos, it means it's going to take me some time to edit them and decide which ones I want to upload. I don't think I'll send all of them to Flickr. ;) When I do get them uploaded, I'll be sure to blog about it.
