My Katrina Country gallery is up

[Blue_In_AK]

here http://northernvisions.smugmug.com/gallery/2030436. Please let me know what you think.

[wakeme2008]

1. Great pictures BUT

I always like a short comment of what I am looking at :)

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Oh, yeah, I'm going to get around to captions

at some point, but it was about 12:30 last night when I finally got through sorting through all the photos and editing the ones I wanted to post, so I just wasn't up for it yet. And now I'm loaded back up with work -- I've typed 265 pages since Tuesday, and will be continuing on into the foreseeable future at that pace. Ugh.

I think I managed to get a caption on the very last one -- "Sleeping With the Dead." It was so odd to see a worn mattress, blanket and a few personal items sitting at the base of the crypt. I can't imaginge sleeping there, but apparently someone has -- or does. Just generally, they go from New Orleans over to Biloxi, back through Waveland, and back into NOLA on Highway 90. I'll get more specific as soon as I get some breathing room.

[wakeme2008]

4. I know you from your pictures

but yipes "I've typed 265 pages since Tuesday, " what are you typing :)

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I'm a legal transcriptionist...

We're working on a construction trial -- design and/or construction defects in the Alaska Native Heritage Center building. Vapor barriers and insulation, etc. A lot more boring than the criminal trials I usually do, but since it's rush work (what we call dailies - turning over a whole day of trial testimony overnight) I'm getting paid $3.25/page instead of the usual $2.05, so I'm not complaining.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. I've captioned most of the pictures now

if you want to see where they were. The ones in the beginning that don't have captions are all in New Orleans, downtown/French Quarter. The ones in the middle with no captions are somewhere between Biloxi and Waveland. The most desolation we saw, I think, was on Waveland Beach. It literally looked bombed out there, many homes completely gone except for foundations or pilings, and the trees all broken and dead. It's really hard to imagine the devastation down there until you actually see it, and even though I took over 400 pictures, they don't begin to encompass the enormity of it. This trip deeply affected me.

[JeffR]

3. 18, 21, 22 of course, 51, 55... wow!

Looking forward to the captions, but so many of them speak for themselves, and eloquently.

Nice work.

[intheflow]

6. Blue in my 'hood!

:woohoo:

I can pinpoint exactly where most of those shots were taken--maybe all the Mississippi ones. I love the gator shot! Here's one of mine from the same boat ride:

[F.Gordon]

8. So... it was a boat

That was my guess. I know Blue' is fearless but her one photo (and yours)....
:scared:

Don't those critters like.... bite and eat people?

[Blue_In_AK]

10. This one was too busy eating marshmallows

that the guide was tossing out for him.

[F.Gordon]

7. Thanks for takin' me on your journey

And you used ISO 1600 on that great photo of the geetar dude.
:woohoo:

I have several faves but the whole bunch is great.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. That was ITF's suggestion to go that high,

and it worked out very nicely, I thought. I think I might have used a fairly high ISO on the Bourbon Street night shot, too. (checking) Yes, I did, but 800 instead of 1600. See how adventurous I'm becoming? Haha.

[priller]

12. These are super!

Enjoyed the slideshow very much. Especially liked the broken graveyard shots. And the pic with the house with the commercial sign for house demolition really struck me as very appropriate for the Bush era -- they build nothing, they only destroy, all the while making a profit on the havoc they wreak.

On a technical note, I liked the colors in many of the photos. It looks like you had some nice, overcast weather while you were there (nice for photographs, that is).

I'm heading down there myself next month. For a school trip for my son. I don't know how much time I'll have for photos, but I'll certainly try.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Thanks, Priller....

I was especially happy for the overcast in the St. Louis Cemetery because it really brought out the texture and color of the crypts and lent a really dreary atmosphere that I liked for the subject. I took dozens of photographs in there, and I like almost all of them. The overcast also worked well with the devastation in Waveland.

You will be amazed by what you see down there if you haven't been since Katrina. It's truly an eye-opener to the inertia of our system.