Continuing the trend of getting out for short getaways, we got a dog sitter and scooted out to Durham for a couple of nights. It was overcast Saturday as we wandered around American Tobacco Campus.
RDU
A Quick Forest Walk
Some days you just need to get out. As a managed forest, Schenck seems to change more than big chunks of Umstead which is so close to it. I’d never spent much time around the ropes course. The light was interesting.
The Fuji X-T3 continues to impress.
Dragged out the X-Pro1 for a walk.
A quick sunset walk with a camera that needed a good dusting off.
Read MoreOakwood 5K
I’m lucky to have route by my house that takes me through Oakwood Cemetery. If go the right way it’s exactly 3.11 miles. Plus, I get some of it on a gravel access road—pretty sure my knees thank me for that every now and then.
I took my time and just walked it recently. Cemeteries have long been a photographic crutch of mine. It’s usually quiet and there’s enough statues to play with portrait ideas without bothering a living breathing human being.
Art Deco Car Show
NCMA: Porsche by Design
Last year Laura treated me to spending far too much time in the Porsche by Design exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Since they were allowed, of course I dragged my camera with me.
I'm not sure what the final exposure count was to yield these 10, but it was up there. Turns out, I married a very patient woman.
In hindsight, I think I fell into the trap of shooting against what I was working with. Instead of working so hard to isolate the objects on display, maybe I should have worked to include the audience. It'd have yielded a very different set.
I'm goint to chalk that up to not shooting as often as I'd like and the rust that comes along with that.
Save Dix Park
The Dix Park situation is less about a park and more about what it means to do business with North Carolina.
Read MoreKirby Derby
Part parade, part drag race, part derby. Really, that's all I got for this annual (damn near) Raleigh institution. With a new theme every year Kirby Derby's costumes, floats and derby entries are always entertaining. This will be a bit of a rolling gallery. As events happen and I can go, I'll update. Enjoy!
09 March 2013 Edit: With the site move, the Kirby Derby gallery has been relocated.