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Out of Business

Out of Business

New Orleans. While this doesn't show overt Katrina damage, it seems to sum up what happened in 2005.

Underneath a Light

Underneath a Light

Taken in the French Quarter during a lovely if too-brief lunchtime walk.

Parallel Lines

Parallel Lines

I'm completely addicted to tweaking photos on an iPhone. I really want a larger-than-iPhone surface tablet device to tweak images. The interface possibilities have me all aflutter.

Vintage Detroit Iron 2

Vintage Detroit Iron 2

1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass. Original owner. I still miss the 1972 Buick LeSabre my dad bought in 1983. It had 20k miles on it and was in amazing shape. That car died in 1990 and I didn't have the $$$ to save her. I still feel bad about that.

Power Tree: Another Angle

Power Tree: Another Angle

I didn't need to do more than a few minutes work on this one because the light was so damn perfect. I love when a storm has good timing.

Golden Leaf Day

Golden Leaf Day

When I was growing up my mom would always call the best day of autumn "golden leaf day". For the few days that the leaves were perfectly gold on our trees, she'd ask, "do you think today is golden leaf day?" I can't see golden leaves without asking that same...

Power Tree

Power Tree

Too blurry to salvage as a straight shot, but really moody like this. Chalk it up to too much David Sylvian.

The Slow Death of Autumn

The Slow Death of Autumn

When the light is right, you have to shoot. Because then you don't have to spend more than a few minutes working on a image. This is from last night. Amazing light just after a day of gray and storms.

Early Autumn Palette

Early Autumn Palette

Digging the scene in our yard. The super wide angle lens captures the stuff that's still green and the stuff that's going brown. Because it's MAGIC.

Up the Inside Out

Up the Inside Out

With all the recent activity, I'd almost forgotten to take any autumnal color shots. This is a demon pod tree. Pretty, but evil.

This Tree is Dead

This Tree is Dead

This was taken last week. It was not taken in the dead of winter. This is a marginal photograph, but given my propensity for sleeping/dead trees I figured it was worth sharing.

Making the Bees Work For It

Making the Bees Work For It

I wasn't sure these would grow where we planted them as we were rushing against a storm, but I think planting them right before they got drenched helped them thrive. I think I want an all purple garden next year. The pollinators have to get on down inside to do their...