Archive for June, 2008
Wood Wedding
By Charles E. Roop
I had the opportunity to shoot a wedding this weekend in Summerfield. A step-uncle, Denny, was getting married to Rhonda. Shooting a wedding is a little harder than it looks. You have to act fast during the ceremony and make sure you are getting the shot. I hope I did well for [...]
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Someone spilled the chemicals
By Charles E. Roop
I was in the GIS lab on Thursday, June 12 when I got some messages on my pager regarding a spill in Leigh Hall, a chemistry building on campus. I decided to leave lab a little early and check it out. There were nearly a dozen emergency vehicles on Buckman Drive near [...]
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DONE…with Summer A!
By Charles E. Roop
There is an excuse for the lack of posts in recent days: school. I have just completed one of the hardest classes I have taken so far in my UF career. Well, I still have one more day to show up, but there are no more labs and final projects that requires [...]
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TIM RUSSERT – 1950-2008
Photo Source: The Associated Press/ Yahoo! News
By Charles E. Roop
The news of the passing of NBC’s Chief Washington Correspondent and moderator of “Meet the Press” Tim Russert did not come to me via TV or Yahoo! News, but Facebook. Soon after NBC broke through regular programing to tell the sad news and word went on [...]
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Extreme Weather Tuesday
By Charles E. Roop
Tuesday was an interesting day in Gainesville. For starters, we actually got some rain! It was a miracle. Gainesville Regional Airport picked up 1.64 inches of rain. However, when there is good, there is sometimes bad.
Reports flooded my pager of accidents, fallen trees and a lightning victim. From The Gainesville Sun…
The severe [...]
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Volusia Beaches!
By Charles E. Roop
Erin and I took a day trip out to Ponce Inlet and Ormond-By-The-Sea on Saturday. The trip was mainly a three-year aniversary trip. Unfourtunately, since money is a little low at this time, it was only a day trip. We plan on making up for it in August. It was a nice [...]
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Mammatus and Boredom
IMG_9289_edit, originally uploaded by thewxmanjeckel_83.
It’s been a quiet week or two when it comes to photos, but a little busy elsewhere. The best photo this week so far is a photo of Mammatus clouds in Ocala on June 1 while taking a trip with Erin.
Everything else has been Foundations of GIS, GIS, sleep, GIS, [...]
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