Here are the
Here are the men. In the arches at Loyola University. After a hard few hours of filming in the sweltering humidity, they are still in good humor. They have talked of many things. Of science and climate change and rain. … Read More
Here is PATRICK
Here is PATRICK in that magical backyard where we’ve taken thousands of pictures, crafted hundreds of stories, and filmed scenes and not to mention the personal stuff. Flooded once in 1927, when they blew the levees. Flooded twice in 1965 … Read More
Nick was just
Nick was just 10 years old when this picture was taken on Horn Island. He is the great grandson of arguably the South’s greatest nature artist, Walter Anderson. And mom, Rosalie, a biologist, is close to cracking a way to … Read More
Maybe I yap
Maybe I yap on about it too much. Yap on about land loss, that is. And, you can tell nothing from this picture, but this was all land a week before the picture was taken. The crabbers who took us … Read More
It’s the crack
It’s the crack of dawn, and these men have been pulling crabs out of the water for two hours already. It’s backbreaking, repetitive work with not nearly enough or nearly long enough breaks. During one 5 minute reprieve, they call … Read More
I’ve been thinking
I’ve been thinking recently about our fragile environment here in Southeast Louisiana. Did you know, for example, that the dirty pipeline will end in our wetlands? Dirty freaking energy for export. Greed upon greed. Profits before people. Or, that everything … Read More