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#46 is Valentino Rossi, #1 in the world right now. #99 is Jorge Lorenzo, #2 in the world. I'm here to study innovators and these two are at the top of their game. The team behind them is doing interesting stuff with social media, too. - Robert Scoble

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Nice! - Luke Kilpatrick

600 mm F4.0 lens FTW! - Robert Scoble

More about Rossi here: http://news.google.com/news... - Robert Scoble

just awesome! - michael sean wright

It is a lot harder to shoot these than jet planes. The pictures don't do justice to just how fast these things are going. This is turn 1 at Indy, by the way. - Robert Scoble

Envious much! Being able to see The Doctor at work. Amazing! - Steve Farnworth

Thomas Hawk would be jealous. I snuck through another team's garage (with permission) then got kicked off the track after 20 minutes of shooting. - Robert Scoble

These are practice runs, tomorrow the racing starts. We're doing a meetup at the track, by the way, at 1 p.m. -- if you are here, call me. 425-205-1921 will be fun. Another meetup is at 10 p.m. tomorrow night in downtown Indianapolis. - Robert Scoble

These guys drive faster in the rain than I do in my car. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Are these shots are only a percentage of the resolution of the camera? I can only imagine the full detail of the shot. 1600x1067 resolution feels like it doesn't do them justice. Nice work. - Luke Kilpatrick

Luke: yeah. The full things are over 5,000 pixels across. I'll put up full res ones on Flickr. - Robert Scoble

nice pictures scoble - Joshua Smith from twhirl

Really nice work! What lens are you using? - Bill Sanders

Joshua: thanks. You didn't see all my failures, though. This was the hardest shooting I've ever done. It's amazingly difficult to get good photos of things going so freaking fast with such a long telephoto. I have no idea how the camera people on TV do it (except they have huge tripods). - Robert Scoble

hot. - Drea

Bill: a Canon 600 mm F4.0 with a Canon 5D MK II. - Robert Scoble

<insert envy here> missed you last night at the panel btw... - Bill Sanders

By the way, all these pictures are in the public domain. My gift to you. Bill: yeah, sorry I wasn't there. I heard I took some abuse from Guy Kawasaki, though. Tell him that Yamaha's are beating the Kawasakis here. :-) - Robert Scoble

SWEET!! - The Catz Meow

Very nice. I think you are almost ready to go shoot some NASCAR. - Jeff from iPod

Fiat, by the way, is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Fiatont... and FriendFeed at http://friendfeed.com/fiatont... - Robert Scoble

Jeff: NASCAR goes slow compared to these bikes. :-) But I would love to catch some NASCAR action someday. - Robert Scoble

Thanks for the "social media compliment" Robert. We all share a big passion and are simply trying to share the best content we have. - Marco Massarotto

@Robert ... ummm darlin' depends on what track they are on. Right now they can get up to 205 on a super speedway WITH a restrictor plate. (eg. Taladega & Daytona) Before the Restrictor plate was required... they would get speeds up to 220 mph. (Yes I am a HUGE NASCAR GEEK!!) - The Catz Meow

Great pictures! - Tamara

So I guess the shots of me catching a wave was like shooting fish in a barrel compared to the speed of these shots. Looking forward to seeing the full res shots, I wonder if you can tell the type of screws used on the bikes :) - Luke Kilpatrick

The Catz Meow: I was just yanking your chain. The MotoGP is running about 205mph too. These bikes are amazing. Especially when you consider the rain. Those tires are awesome. Yeah, Luke, shooting you was a bit easier. - Robert Scoble

Marco: thanks for the access and being great hosts. I'll upload a lot more to my Flickr account shortly. - Robert Scoble

But cars are huge compared to these bikes. Easier to get focus on a large target. Astonished that the 5D handles that well... - Holger Eilhard from iPod

Nice. I'll be out there tomorrow. May see you at a TweetUp - Mike Nelson

Holger: I love my 5D. It's an amazing camera. By the way, these have NOT been altered in any way and are straight off of my camera. If I did a little bit of processing on them they would look even more amazing. - Robert Scoble

@Robert Oh yes I am well aware of what these bikes can do... I did my Motorcycle mechanic apprenticeship for Vance and Hines Racing back in 86-87. I used to watch them at Laguna Seca when I was stationed at Fort Ord. - The Catz Meow

Can you tell I really LOVE Speed and things that GO FAST? - The Catz Meow

The Catz: yeah. And these things DO. I will shoot the turns tomorrow (on the back of the track the bikes go through a series of turns, which make a lot better pictures than just all-out speed). - Robert Scoble

Robert: next up: some nice HD video maybe? :) - Holger Eilhard from iPod

It's very difficult to shoot video at the paddock, organization won't allow videocameras, so it's gonna be a tough time for Robert to share some video, but, you know... you never know, he's Scobleizer :-) - Marco Massarotto

Holger: I will try to sneak in some video here and there, but Marco is right, video is hard to shoot on these tracks. Plus, I can't use the 600 mm and get video worth watching. - Robert Scoble

Robert: How come you can't do video on the 600mm? Too much shake? - Luke Kilpatrick

Luke: yeah. - Robert Scoble

Beautiful photos of a great team. I think race photographer would be my dream job. - Stephen Masiello

Stephen: I met the official photographer today and he wasn't willing to give up his media pass. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

Nice. I was there last year, soggy then too. Didn't have a 600. Use a slower shutter speed while panning for that blurred feeling of speed. - Jeremy Tanner

Jeremy: yeah, I'll try that. First I just had to get used to capturing these things. How slow? I bet 125th of a second would do the trick. - Robert Scoble

I just posted some more photos over on Flickr; http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert Scoble

Guy only had a little fun at your expense. Something about not being sure that all those egos could fit on one panel - even with you missing. We'll get you back for another one soon. Enjoy the trip - looks like you are having a blast. - Bill Sanders

Great lens choice for the conditions & targets. - Bryan Duke

You had me at "motorcycles." - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Robert, very good job you are doing there. Chase commented earlier that he IS jealous. - Johnny Sewell

The full resolution shots are awesome. Great detail, you can count the links on the drive train for the bike! amazing. - Luke Kilpatrick

Scott Kelby - eat your heart out !!! - Alan Morris

Good work, Robert - James Myatt