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Tag: Magazine Street

  • Learning

    New Orleans This is a test. I’m trying to learn how to do combined multiple picture designs. Combined, because I’ve crashed two templates. I’ve also used some older pictures that those of you who are new to Storyteller may never have seen. They highlight a couple of tourist areas. Places that some of you might…

  • Postponed

    This Mardi Gras parade season seems doomed. Last night we had tropical storm level winds, the gusts were around 40 mph. So the parades were postponed. Two will roll tonight minus all the walking groups. The third will roll on Sunday. That means 164 floats will be on the streets tonight. At least one of…

  • Motion

    Mardi Gras Parades. All about motion. Movement. Energy. Often, it’s hard to show that. Motion is thought of being better portrayed on video. I don’t make videos. I do it using still cameras. I’ve done that since the days of film. For a time, I made my career on that. The trick is to find…

  • Arrrrggggghhhh

    Yes. Arrrggggghhhh. Google, apparently lacking enough to do, redesigned their desktop. The very desktop that I use 20 times a day. The one with my eight favorite sites like Storyteller. I would see the thumbnail, click on it and a way I went. Oh no. Not anymore. The new desktop only has six buttons. Sales…

  • Out on Magazine Street

    Back to the past. Just a little. Generally, whenever I photograph something I don’t self edit in the field. I photograph whatever I see. As I work through my take, I curate pictures that don’t fit into — Oh, let’s say Mardi Gras — but were made at the same time into another collection. This…

  • Parade People

      It’s the people. Whether they are in a marching band, a krewe member riding a float, somebody riding a horse or even the people waving for beads or throws, Mardi Gras parades are about the people. It’s really just that simple. People. The pictures. F something and be there. That’s also simple. Oh yeah,…

  • Mardi Gras Odds

    Mardi Gras Parades. I work mostly in the dark. I overshoot. Mostly, to back myself up. I’m never really sure if I made the picture while I’m standing out there. I don’t chimp. That’s to say that I never look at the LCD. It just breaks my work and thought flow. If I need to…

  • First Night

    So. It begins. The Uptown parades began to roll on Friday night. As you already know, I like to work the margins. The edges. Along the gutters. There’s a good reason for that. I cannot compete on a timely basis with about 10,000 people armed with smart phones, and news media outlets who all immediately…

  • On Magazine Street

    It must be the colors in the sky. That’s why I’m drawn to pictures like this. I sort of made a left turn. Then another left turn. I retreated from New Mexico pictures and moved back to where I live. At least, for now. There was a practical reason for it. I had a  bunch…