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I was awoken this morning around 3:45 by my neighbor re-stacking his apparently prodigious ladder collection. By 4:15 I had a cup of coffee in my hand and a plan in my head. I was already committed to traveling … Continue reading
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Many photographers bristle at the quote from Ansel Adams, “A good photograph is knowing where to stand” but I find it to be true more often than not. Fortune presented me with a great opportunity for a photo and … Continue reading
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Under normal conditions there are not a whole lot of chances to go kayaking in Louisiana during the summer. Certainly, lakes abound and one can wet their line fishing from a kayak in Grand Isle but most of the … Continue reading
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Even my precious and newly minted Louisiana Association of Broadcaster’s press-badge could not get me access to the levee this evening. I am sure there is some public safety rationale for it but if the Kansas City-Southern trains can run … Continue reading
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I managed to get myself on the correct ferry this morning and went across the river from the bottom of Canal Street to Algiers Point. It was crisp for a morning in May as the ferry pulled against the … Continue reading
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New Orleans in the very early morning may be my favorite time to wander its streets. However, early morning is not when I am at my navigational best. That is why I found myself on the Gretna Ferry rather … Continue reading
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It’s hard to take pictures from a moving car. And actually, this is water coming out of the end of the spillway, the sluice gates are south north of these train tracks. Lots of water.
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“One who knows the Mississippi, will promptly aver — not aloud, but to himself — that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine … Continue reading