With the sun setting on the horizon and thunder clouds rising into the distant evening sky, Lake Verret is about to slip under the wing of this Southwest Boeing 737.
Tag Archives: New Orleans Today is Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday. This image is still my favorite Mardi Gras photo to date, though the trombone player cuts a close second. 
[...] Fire Embers (Click image for larger view) Since yesterday was Mardi Gras, that makes today Ash Wednesday, so here’s a photo of some [...]  I can’t look a the this image without wondering what was the joke? What was it this guy saw or heard that so obviously cracked him up? So New Orleans is music and music is New Orleans. The music of New Orleans transcends all manner of cultural boundaries. Unlike the students in the high school…
[...] Today is Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday. This image is still my favorite Mardi Gras photo to date, though the trombone player cuts a close [...]  2010 was the first year I actually noticed these ‘only in Louisiana’ variations on Old Glory – the flag of the United States. This one was flying from the porch of a house on Napoleon Avenue in New Orleans. I’m fairly sure these flags have passed through my line of vision in prior years also…  I thought I lead off with this image of one of the Flambeau carriers from the 2010 Endymion parade. This was taken as the parade was about to set off. This guy was one of a group of about eight, all similarly dressed for their march to the Superdome. The torch is fueled from a propane tank secured to the frame on his back.
[...] Officer 2010 (Click image for larger view) Perhaps a contrast from my image yesterday of an Endymion Flambeau, here is an image taken around the same time of an Endymion [...]  It was a dark and stormy night No, really, it was. Three years ago, on the 7th anniversary of 9/11, my family was among millions of others preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Ike. Our lives had been changed three years before that with the devastation wrought on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. Then, with… 
Great piece of photojournalism. I really enjoyed hearing your personal story and seeing the colorful new homes on stilts. Cheers!  Five years ago this morning, hurricane Katrina made landfall near the Louisiana-Mississippi border as at Category 3 with sustained winds at 120 mph. With my wife’s family hailing from New Orleans, hurricane Katrina changed all of our lives in ways we never anticipated. These photos were take on May 28, 2006, some eight months after… 
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Wow, 8 months after the storm and everything is still upside down! |
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by Richard Davis
woow…. amazing.
This is a very beautiful sunset