I have converted my GPS tracks to a line drawing and overlapped it on a satellite image of the city. It kinda lines up. Just fussing. There are tons of possibilities with this vector line.
I'm the red!

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It was a brilliant morning. The sky was bright and clouds poofy. Lots of people out working in this part of town for a saturday morning. Here are a few images that give some context to the condition the entire area is looking like one year after Katrina.






Tomorrow, I go to the Ninth Ward.

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After three days on the road, I finally made it to NOLA. I am extremely excited and at the same time freaked out. This place has some serious holes in it.
Last night I stayed with a friend, Lori Reed - Reed Design. I set off across the worlds longest bridge, heading south into the city. I started on River Road and worked my way east toward Magazine Street. I just a few blocks you can already see recovery in action. Heading into the city I targeted the French Quarter to locate my hotel. It looks fine. Some work being done but nothing crazy. They did not take on much if any water.
Then I jumped on Esplanade Street north into City Park where the New Orelans Museum of Art is located. Now, it took on some water. The park was over grown and empty. The museum was open and looked great. They have a show of photographs from Katrina. Very beautiful and disturbing. You can not possibly comprehend what happend here. The images are honest representations of a horrific experience.
With the charge of adrenaline, I set off towards the lake on the west side of the park. That is when It all began... the neighborhoods were damaged. The good thing was all the workers. The bad thing was it was only at one or two houses per street. I then made it around the top of the park and headed down the east side. Same thing, some workers but mostly abandoned homes.
Tomorrow I will get up early to photograph... which neighborhood??? Will figure that out tonight.
Here are three images from the 2000+:

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I was honored by Nikon the borrowing of 2 Nikon D2x for the trip to New Orleans.
What I have found is that you can connect "2" cameras to the computer but firing them in Sync... you can not. Unless you manually set the to fire using a timelapse mode in the camera.
I am not the expert here... but you would think you could hack this to make it work.
Now I am choosing to use only one camera for the trip.
It will be mounted in the Roof top carrier that I will cool through a connection between the "moon roof" and a whole in the bottom of the carrier. The connection between the space will be insulation foam (1.5 inchest thick x 2) with a hole cut into it that matches the one in the carrier. I'll send pics when done.
This whole will be used to run extension cords and a USB cable to the camera.
At night I can disconnect the cords and close the moon roof.
This is tonights project.

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