Olde Main Plaza

Three Line Decontamination Shelter

On Monday we trained on setting up a 3 line decon shelter properly and quickly. The decon shelter is used when large numbers of people are contaminated with a hazardous material and we need to get it off of them as fast and as safely possible.

Locks of Love

My daughter got her hair cut today and is donating it to the Locks of Love organization. She had talked about it for a long time, but was kind of nervous. She'd had her hair long for such a long time she didn't know if she'd like it short. She really likes her new hair cut and was glad she was able to help out such a worthy cause.

Eastman Collection

Truck 311

The Wilds

We went to The Wilds in south eastern Ohio on Tuesday. The Wilds is located on 10,000 acres of reclaimed surface coal mine land in a very remote part of Ohio. We had a great time and got to see a lot of rare and endangered animals.

The Wilds

Get Off My Sunflower!

Which One?

Just foolin' around in Photoshop.

High Dynamic Range

I finally broke down and bought some HDR software. I have had the trial version of Photomatix Pro for a while and liked the results I got with it, so I bit the bullet. We went to Ohio for a few days this week visiting family and I went out a couple of days to take some pictures. Here are a few I ran through the software.

Lincoln County Barn

Saturday Evening

Friday Evening

Parkway Supermarket, Saint Albans, WV...

...used to be one of the best grocery stores in the Kanawha Valley.

1st Day Back

Tuesday was my first day back from a 23 day vacation and I'd had 'bout all I could take from that guy, so we tied him up ;-)

Sci

Random Shots

Well, I made it through a part of my vacation without hauling all of my digital SLR gear around with me. The last day of our DC trip and all of our SC / GA trip I just used my Fuji f100fd point and shoot. I had my dslr stuff with me in DC but I didn't even take it with me down south. It was hard leaving it behind, but I wanted to travel light and take the minimum amount of stuff since there were 5 of us traveling. It always looks like we're moving to Beaufort whenever we go, but with all 5 it seemed like a lot more. All the pics from this post down to the first cemetery shots were with my F100. I know Rick Lee says "it's not about the camera", but I think the camera did a pretty good job. I missed my dslr stuff a little, but we were so busy it would've been a hassle to carry it around all the time.

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This is How I Like Beaches...

...not crowded!! The top picture is Hunting Island near Beaufort, SC and the other is Jekyll Island near Brunswick, GA. My wife's Dad lives just a few minutes from Hunting Island and about 2 hrs. from more family in Brunswick.

Jekyll Island

We had a rough day at the beach on Jekyll Island Thursday, fightin' the crowds and everything. The ice cream on the way home made it all better though.

Storm at the Sands

My daughter and I were waiting out a storm at the "Sands". The "Sands" is a public beach area right across the sound from Parris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot. We go there to look for shark teeth and watch the dolphins. We found 3 shark teeth in about 5 minutes, right before the storm rolled in. We also saw the most dolphins we've ever seen at one time, there were at least 15 jumping and playing in the water. I don't have any pictures of them, so you'll just have to take my word for it.

Knees

Our knees took a beating while we were down south this time. My daughter skinned hers while she was boogie boardin' at Jekyll Island. I ended up with 4 stitches in mine from cutting it on an oyster shell while we were swimming at Brickyard Point on Lady's Island.