Theme Paintball

While waiting for the IR camera, I thought I'd toss up a few pics from a recent event I was invited to. A group in North Georgia hosts these massive scenario paintball games. They have a 75 acre area set up with bases, trails, "tanks", target sets like communication centers, the works. The paintball games last for up to 48 hours sometimes.

The fun part is that they occassionally have have theme scenarios, and this was was a fun topic, Aliens versus Predators versus Marines. Each team had different rules of conduct, different mechanisims to score points and diferent victory conditions. It was a pretty fun time for all.

I was there to get some fun pictures of the event and lucked out when some folks showed up fully dressed up for the event, such as:

I then took that shot and worked on it a while in PhotoShop and came up with some wallpaper for the paintballers to download:

The paintball game was a blast for all, and held a special moment when Boy met Predator.

The rest of the scenario pictures are here. You may or may not notice that exposures during the matches were less than optimal or well balanced. With 100 people shooting in/at/near/around you, and wearing a full head paintball helmet, and having subjects that refuse to stay still for more than half a second before they run off, you start taking any shot of opportunity you get and let the camera meter itself.

And on a side note, when 100 people show up for a massive paintball game in Georgia, everyone covered head to toe with padding, gear, fatigues, etc. I just have to wonder what this guy was thinking...