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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Piney Wood Park in Durham, NC
Piney Wood Park is a small city park in Durham. There are a couple of these unusual buildings with locked blue doors, which I assume are some sort of storage facility.
As part of my forensic pathology fellowship, I get to spend a week rotating through the various parts of the SBI Crime Lab in Raleigh, NC. Here are some of the things I’ve learned:
- The only thing dumber than committing a felony is bragging to your “buddies” about committing said felony (audio analysis).
- “State of the art” video security systems are often equipped with low end cameras (video analysis).
- The ever expanding capacity of hard drives is essentially there to accommodate large porn collections (computer analysis).
- Proprietors of clandestine labs who emboss their product with an original logo get an A for effort (drug chemistry).
Work on my HDR tutorial is progressing nicely. I hope to have it published by the end of the weekend.
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
West Point on the Eno in Durham, NC
I’m not much of a history buff. It’s not that I don’t care about historical things, it’s just hard to find the time to learn about them. This old tobacco barn at West Point on the Eno made for a really nice subject and the redbuds framed the barn nicely.
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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The William B. Umstead State Park in Raleigh, NC
The runner-up title for this photo is “Home of a Million Tiny Biting Insects”.
I took this photo during a spring hike through Umstead State Park. The location where I was standing was under water the last time I had walked the trails. After several days of rain, the creek had been well over its banks. I actually didn’t think this side of the creek was accessible. The walking trail leads to a pile of large rocks that are stacked on the edge of the creek. The area seen in the photo is on the other side of those rocks. The risk of climbing down the rocks and getting to this spot seemed acceptable so I went for it.
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