[Leica] Another 50 9th Ward Images

[SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)]

In a message dated 3/12/2006 12:41:57 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
feli2@earthlink.net writes:

I kept  asking myself, "how am I going to put a human face  
on this  disaster... without any people?
You can only shoot so much  rubble."



Thanks Feli,
    I've not been back "home" to New Orleans since Katrina,  if I do come 
back in hte near future, I doubt I will bother to shoot  it.  There's hardly 
any 
way to photograph the 360 degrees-ness of the  Ninth Ward and Lakeview.   
      I am probably more familiar with both areas  than Jeffery, since I 
lived in Lakeview thirty years and had good  friends in the 9th ward.  
Because of 
that, I can stitch these scenes  together in my mind; these of Jeffery's and 
others I  morbidly studied  by Googling "Lakeview Katrina."  
      2005 was a terrible year for me. I lost my  Mother, then my Father, 
and 
soon, I was seeing water flow into and the life flow  out of the wonderful 
city I worked and played in.
       I haven't gone back, partly because of  health, but mostly, I just 
don't have the heart to see her that way.  
       I will visit, but don't expect rubble  pictures from me.  Maybe I'll 
go and shoot pictures of flowers.
  
Regards,  
Sonny
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