More Cell Phone Shots from NOLA

The next year I went back to New Orleans for New Years. Dave Grundfeld, a photo editor for the Times Piciune, took me to some bars at 10 AM to prep me for a trip to the 9th Ward.Cell phones don't do justice. Dog on a pool table at a bar. The house with FD on it is Fats Domino's. A heart breaking scene at a small church in the 9th. Mayor Nagan at a restaurant after the shot of a goat's ass (no editorial commentary intended). And a New Year's bonfire at the end... Bonfire of the Vanities... NOT!

First Post Katrina Mardi Gras

These shots were taken with a Treo cell phone while visiting my friends Annie and Dennis who had moved from New York to New Orleans AFTER Katrina hit. I guess they needed to live in a town as chaotic as where they had come from... they got it!!! It was Mardi Gras '06 and nothing was quite normal. But then again...

Random Cells Random Places

I hated the Treo cell phone! It was bulky, unwieldy, had so-so reception, and was really hard to type on, but... the screen was really large so you could see your composition, even though the image was probably about a half megapixel... The look of the shot was it's charm. Looking back on the reasons I got into photography, having a visual diary was probably tops on the list. These shots are some of the things I took walking around NYC, on jobs, and at home. Since it died, I haven't gotten shots like that from a cell phone again. Phonus rigamortus.