Homeland security

Empty

Downtown Houma

Meeting

Talking about hurricane stuff. What to cover, where were going, when
were going... Etc.

Evac busses

Lots of busses

Getting the boat ready

Midnight line

I figured stopping by wal mart at midnight to pick up a few things
would be a good idea.

Silly me

Yea, the registers are way up at the top of the frame.

I only walked back this far to take this picture.

Sand

Filling bags...

You know there's a storm comming when...

The shelves with Spam and Vienna sausage is empty. But there's plenty
of water and batteries left.

photosynth

My Boss passed along this web site for me to try and make these 3D/360 Degree images...

The possibilities are endless with this program. What I'm excited about is that it's not just a 360 view of the world from one vantage point. It allows you to walk around a subject, or walk down a path or zoom in on one thing to show it's detail... etc.

But for now, here's a view of the Courier Parking Lot.

(Oh, and sorry, it can only be viewed on a PC... which I'm not to happy to admit, but not much I can do about it.)

Why I love the olympics

I'm about to hit the sack, and I'm batteling a cold, but I thought I'd
say why I love the olympics...

The upsets.

I don't know much about swimmig, but it's the olympics so it doesn't
matter. You watch any sport that's on tv. Two weeks of constant sports.

I was watching swimming tonight and NBC made note (a lot) about how
the French 4x100 relay team talked some trash towards the USA team.
Saying something along the lines of how they're going to "smash" the
Americans.

The guys on TV were saying how the French were favored to win the
4x100. Even during the race they were saying "can the US hold on for
silver"

Then the US edged the French by .08 seconds for the gold. And the US
swimmers go crazy.

That's how wheaties boxes are made.

I love that kind of comeback. The 1980 hockey win over Russia. Keri
schrug with her hurt ankle vault. Paul Hamm in 2004 with his all-
around victory in gymnastics. Sarah something in figure skating a
while ago.

"rudy" moments if you will.

I get all choaked up watching the reactions of those accomplishments.
Usually each olympics has at least one moment like that. So hopefully,
since the game just started, we'll have a few more.

The closest I've come to this feeling is when I won a basket of cheese
and chocolate at a silent auction. My bid of 25 bucks held up.

Tomorrow I'll post about the rest of the Pittsburgh trip, geekfest and
this weekends conference.

Trade show

Taking a break between speakers. One room is filled with different
companies showing off their new and best gear. So we played around
with a top notch JVC video camera.

The best part of the trade show... Free stuff. I'm up to three pens, a
camera strap, cf card holder, flashlight key chain, a little tri-pod
and a sunglasses holder.

two of fourteen

I invite everybody to vote for their favorite photo in the MSNBC Week in Pictures slide show. Take a look at all the photos, then vote for the one that you feel the most attached to, or the one that sparks an emotion, or the one that you feel the most connection with, or one you've seen on this blog before (wink wink).

Hugo

Mike James (who?) hosted a basketball camp today at Nicholls. And by
hosted, I mean he showed up 2 hours late. Then stood off in the corner
shooting baskets by himself.

He plays for the Hornets now, so at least the 200 kids who showed up
got to interact with one hornet... Hugo the mascot.

Mike James did win a championship with Detroit.

Hello Edouard

It's been pretty hectic the past few days.

As you know, I spent the weekend in St. Petersburg attending Geekfest, an annual workshop hosted by AphotoAday.org.

The workshop was awesome. I don't think I've ever left a workshop more inspired.

I planned on posting some more Pittsburgh stuff

I planned on posting some "real camera" pictures from Geekfest

But I had a little run-in with Tropical Storm Edouard yesterday that kind of put a kink in my plans.

So I'm going to skip Pittsburgh and Geekfest stuff for now and show you what Edouard did.

Robert Zullo and I headed down the bayou yesterday to see what Edouard was up too. It wasn't much. Some nice wind, a little rain, but that's about it.

But, the storm surge started pushing water up into Terrebonne. Keep in mind, the storm was about 100 miles south of Houma, and it still pushed about two feet of water into places in Southern Terrebonne. That's pretty scary. Just imagine if we get hit by a big storm. They'll be nothing left.

We hung out with some fishermen on Island Road. We continued down the road towards the island until we realized water was really starting to go across the road and we didn't want to be stuck on the Island all night.

So we headed to Chauvin where we met quite an intersting family.

We found two kids swimming in the flood waters outside their home. I started to take pictures and asked if a parent was home.

Their mother came outside, walked down the steps and just splashed into the water like it wasen't even there. She was covered in tattoos, and visibly drunk. Quite the charactor.

So we hung out there for a while. Here's my favorite picture from there (and from the entire day for that matter)


I forgot to bring my other photos home with me, so if you want to see more, I posted a photo gallery online.

We also produced a video. You'll get a chance to meet the mother. We only had one or two usable quotes from her because she was ether cursing up a storm, or too drunk to understand.



And I promised Misty I'd blog about a doodle she made this weekend. I must admit, it's a pretty sweet doodle. I told her it reminded me of Cat in the Hat. Interesting side note... this doodle was made on the back of a post card given to us by a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Preston Gannaway. She did an awesome photo story that can be seen here.


Hopefully things will slow down a bit later this week so I can post some more stuff from the past two weekends. Actually, I almost have to get that stuff posted because we're spending this weekend in New Orleans attending the Women in Photojournalism workshop. Another weekend of inspiration.... then football season starts.

All over.

Grabbing dinner before riding our bikes a few miles to the drop off
point and getting a ride to the airport.

I am you

Day two of speeches.

Michael williamson with the washington post just finished his talk. It
ended with an awesome poem about photographers.

A couple more talkers and the workshop will be over.

Break

A quick break between speakers.

Were in the St. Pete times auditorium with a day full of speakers.

Photo slam

At a coffee shop in St. Pete. They show a photo on the wall, and a
group of poets talk about the photo.

St. Pete beach

Waiting

For the bus to take us to the beach on a rainy day.