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I was able to talk my way into not only a press pass for the Wolfpack's season opener against USC, but onto the roof of Vaughn Towers to set up my gear for a time lapse. Equipped with my camera, a superclamp and universal ball head, a light stand and some sandbags, an intervalometer, some safety cables and a lot of gaffer's tape, I set up near a corner hoping to be shielded from the breeze a little bit. I was ready to go by 5 or so, shortly before people started filing into the stadium. After setting the controller to take a shot every 15 seconds, I just let it go. I returned after the post-game press conference to grab it. Tyler took the 1300 or so shots and turned them into a 40 second time lapse video of the entire day. Unfortunately the quality of the version posted on News 14 is not very good, but I haven't gotten around to uploading the HUGE full-res version yet.

Not too bad for my first attempt at a time lapse.

Yesterday I was sent to Durham to cover Duke's media availability before the season opens this weekend. Football Coach David Cutcliffe is one of the biggest reasons for any local media to be excited about the start of football season. I always enjoy attending a presser with him. They are often enlightening, and always entertaining.

After finishing up at Duke, I headed to NC Central for the same thing. The coach and a few players were on hand to talk about the upcoming season, particularly the season opener against Hampton University in VA. The press turnout for this was... well... yeah...