#Ray Laskowitz

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"Flautist Hands" - Native American playing a wooden flute - by Ray Laskowitz

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Lyon: 600 petits canards lâchés dans le centre-ville – 20minutes.fr

20minutes.fr600 petits canards jaunes en plastiques seront lâchés en presqu’île lyonnaise, le jour du début des soldes d’été. — Ray Laskowitz/ Sipa. Si vous apercevez ce mercredi des petits canards jaunes flotter dans les bassins ou se promener dans les... Savoir plus

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Burning Down

You know me. I don’t normally post other people’s work. But, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. These images were made by wire service or newspaper photographers. They are very important. What started as a small backyard fire exploded into a major wildfire tha is named after its original location, Palisades. As night and now day wore on it grew and grew. It jumped Sunset, it…

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Christmas in New Orleans: A Magical Journey

The French Quarter during Christmas time. Royal Street., perhaps the best of all the decorated street in The Quarter. A strange thing is happening to me on the way to Christmas. I’m really missing New Orleans, especially The French Quarter during Christmastime. The city is especially magical during this time of year. Let’s just take Christmas Eve for instance. We start in Lutcher, Louisiana…

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Fall Fell Yesterday

Southern Fall Excuse the brevity of this post, but we played two less than fulfilling shows this weekend for a total two and a half hours of music and two days of traveling. Something is happening out there in live music world. Fans are not coming out for concerts. It doesn’t matter who. Unless you are Taylor Swift, nothing sells out. In fact, some tours have been cancelled for lack of ticket…

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Spring Into Summer

Hot, hotter, hottest. It’s very early in the season for the weather to be this hot. I read that in Las Vegas that was temperature was around 110 degrees when a convicted felon took the stage and told them that he didn’t care about them and he just wanted their vote. He also claimed that there was 20,000 people in a venue that holds 3,000. They were paid to be there. The beat goes on.

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Thinking, Always Thinking

Maybe I should stop thinking. I’d hoped to force a week of Mardi Gras into an already crowded schedule, but the universe said no. With new COVID infections reaching a million a day and deaths hitting 1,000 a day, I didn’t think being in crowds on the streets with 100,000 of my best friends was a good idea. So, I decided to make my own Mardi Gras using Generative AI. You can see the results,…

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Sometimes in Winter

M y mind seems to have settled on winter, which is really a long way off. I suppose I’m thinking about it because in the deep south and gulf coast never seems to have much of what I’d call winter. Luckily, in Virginia, we do. Last winter we had enough snow and wind — a storm — that our road lost power. We didn’t because we have solar panels and battery storage for ten days. Normally, the…

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Thunder Road

Drive back. T he road (and the sky). I truly love this photograph. It’s iconic, symbolic and mythical. It was hard to make because I was traveling at about 50 mph. I braced the camera on the dashboard and pressed the button. I made about 20 exposures, this was the best of them. The position of the road and clouds works very well. The symbol and myth is wrapped up in the darkness enveloping…

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Sleepy Sunday

Lines and blue. Sunday. It came again. You know what that means. Quietude. Less complaining. More sleeping. More pictures. And, other things.

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All The Nights

The layers and the drift. Winners and losers. Who decides? We were talking about that in the musical world which maybe as close to the wonderful world of photography as it can be. Just like converting from film to digital capture changed everything in the photo world, digital recording followed by streaming changed everything in that world. Along comes AI in many forms to disrupt the…

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Knowing

Rock lizard. Music is magic, some say. This proves it. Or, maybe making music is a nightmare. I keep experimenting with Generative AI mostly out of self defense especially since an expert, no less than Adobe — those fine developers of Photoshop and Lightroom — said that using their version of AI is the next evolutionary step in photography, making cameras obsolete and no longer needed. I knew…

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That Time

Mardi Gras time. Time to party. Time to dance. Time to see old friends. Time for carnival. Time for Mardi Gras. Actually, all of that started on January 6th, the Twelfth Night. The night when the wise men brought Mardi Gras to New Orleans. Or, something like that. I may have mentioned it in passing, but I didn’t show this unpublished picture. I don’t remember where this one came from, but I…

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Circling

Big blue spots. Weirdness. Once again I’m getting one or two new followers a day. Generally, there is no way to thank them or follow them. I call them ghost subscribers. They’ll never like anything or comment. None of that really bothers me, but what’s the point? What are they getting out of it? A few years ago the same thing happened, but ten fold. Most of them had similar regional names.…

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The Second Day

Marching bands to the rescue. Sometimes, I really miss New Orleans. I miss Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest and French Quarter Fest. All have music entwined within them. I don’t miss the holes, potholes and bullet holes. If I have to make a choice — and, I did — I’ll take the solitude of the farm compared to the noise of my former city. Luckily, I still can listen to the music of marching bands, some of…

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Half Past Mardi Gras

Like fire, like heat. Since we are just a week from the big day, Mardi Gras Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, I reckon that I probably should post a few of my favorite works. Even though these guys look like they might be part of a terrorist organization, they are really flambeaux. In the very old days before there were streetlights they actually did light the way for the parades. Today, they are one more…