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Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts

Friday, April 20, 2012

Old Photos: 2006 Campbell Mtn Estates Fire (Part 1)


Photo from the day in 2006 when I learned that I could not safely watch three widely separated burning brush piles at the same time...

I'll post a few more photos from this fire next week, then move on to other photos I took during that time period.

The camera I took this photo with was an itty bitty silver no name camera (it had a name, but I forget what it was) that had a resolution of 1.9 Megapixels. It had no display to let me know if the shots I was taking were good or not, just an LCD counter telling me how many photos I had taken and how many more I could take. I had 128 and 256 MB SD Cards that I used in the camera. I still have some of them that I use as memory cards for a couple of old MP3 Players.


What brought this on was the rediscovery of a bunch of old Kodak Photo CDs from the 2005-2007 time frame that I had thought were lost (accidentally thrown away) when I moved from Jackson County back to the homestead in Macon County. Over the next few months, I'll be posting some of them.

I found these CDs because I was looking for an old keyboard to use with a desktop that someone has donated to me to use for video editing.



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Monday, August 22, 2011

John Edwards and Heath Shuler on the Campaign Trail


My all-time favorite placement of a Democrat sign, right where it belongs. On a dumpster. 
Photo by Bobby Coggins


I was going through a junk draer the other day and found an old porable hard dive that I had "lost" and found a video on it that I had taken five years ago today on August 22, 2006 at a campaign rally for Heath Shuler in Hendersonville, NC. Former US senator John Edwards did most of the talking at the rally and, since I had no video editing software at the time...I did not post the video because it was over the ten minute limit and I had no way of splitting it. I have now corrected that and have edited and uploaded the video to Youtube and embedded it here...albeit five years late.







I covered the event on this blog, as did Gordon Smith of Scrutiny Hooligans (he was going by Screwie Hoolie at the time) and Tim Peck was there, too. Alas, Gordon and Tim's coverage of the event seems to have been deleted. Gordon moved his blog to a new URL and I suppose that was one of the articles that didn't survive the crossover. Tim's photos of the event have been removed from the Internet due to the failure of Bubbleshare. He apparently did not write about the event on his blog. It also seems that all previously posted video of the event has been removed from Youtube. 


Here is coverage of the event in other news outlets:


Hendersonville Times-News online article
Hendersonville Times-News print article
Lexington Dispatch print article
Wilmington Star News
Blue NC (a mirror of the article Gordon originally posted on Scrutiny Hooligans)
Dailykos






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