January 2018 Newsletter

January 2018 Newsletter

2017 Tours


2017 was a great year for the  spring and fall tours.  

Both Spring tours yielded great images.  Miller's Lake and Jefferson Island Rookeries were going strong. While the weather forecast for both trips wasn't optimal, conditions ended up being very good  with only one shoot at Jefferson Island ending a little earlier than planned.

Conditions for the Fall tour were ideal with a spectacular sunrise on the final day. Both Henderson Swamp and Lake Dauterive yielded some very nice images.

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June 2017 Newsletter

June 2017 Newsletter

May was a very busy and productive month. The second Louisiana Bird Photography Tour was a wonderful success. While like the first tour, the weather forecast was not the best, we danced around the rain and made some wonderful images.

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The Demise of the pay phone in New York City

[I heard an interesting article on NPR this evening. All but 3 of the pay phones in New York City are being replaced with WiFi Kiosks. A search on the web uncovered this NYtimes article.

I've had an affinity for pay phones for some time. I spent quite a bit of my engineering carier building telephone networks and installing private telephone systems. I don't have any good images of pay phones as when they were plentiful, there was no reason to photograph them and then they disappeared and belatedly I wish I had. LIke Book stores and Newpaper vending machines, I fear they are now really a thing of the past.

While we don't have the colorful red phone booths like the British, there's something about the sleek glass booths of day's past that just invites a photograph. Oh well, time marches on.