It’s been busy lately I guess for everybody so I did not have a drive to post this even though it was ready for some weeks now. the stuff is from the Freret market (local market on the freret street), then some more camera gear testing on the way :-) and finally, some pre-christmas actions taken at home. I leave it here and will comment more in between shots.

the abandoned dog’s house was offering their dogs. It was kinda weird to offer dogs on the regular art and food market but the dogs were cute.

Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans. Some people like him, some don’t. Nonetheless, there is a lot of problems in the town hall.

I was testing zuiko 35/2.8. This flare was actually the only problem I encountered and even that is nothing exceptionally bad.

apparently, the sherif’s office was sponsoring the market. And of course, the cajun music.

the was a lot of food as is usual in this city.

she looked like Betty.

every photographer knows that perfect framing is the key :-)

the guy with a little dog was funny. huge guy dressed in awful sports suit with that tiny dog.

they looked nice.

leaving the market. obama’s everywhere.

back home and tired.

still life. wine and alberto giacometti.

we got pretty cold in those days. It’s coming back and forth, few days warm but pouring and few days almost freezing. crazy.

fall starts in december here.

bought some jupiters 8. tested on the fed 5c which I otherwise don’t use.

and then bought for 20 bucks an olympus 35 rc. I did not plan it but it was so cheap that I had to. And it is gourgeous camera. reaaaaaaally sharp. Here, loaded with chromogenic BW kodak (kodak BW400CN) and scanned as color negs hence the brownish tint. I like it though.

my lovely wife getting ready for shopping.

alcohol still life.

we went to buy a christmas tree before our friend Jakub have come.

old anthropology building torn down. It was damaged by Katrina and the officials finaly decided to take it down.

in library’s graduate students carrels.

on the way home. proper attire required. funny.

long exposures.

oak street.

guess where it comes from.

bulb + f2.8. actual time around 1/4 I would guess.

merry christmas to y’all too.

papa NOel.

my canon 7 when the shutter button was too soft (before having it in focus).

back to pure BW.

I got my first running nose in a long time. Lucky me that I don’t suffer illnesses almost at all here in Louisiana.

in the library.

in the library late in the night.

my neighboring carrel.

our neighbor put her car onto our backyard to avoid flood destoying it. We had some pretty serious rains and flooding lately.

setting up the christmas tree.

somebody got balls!

awful.

from our kitchen window. the sunset.

still messing with the tree.

I bought socks for us and jakub. filled with some candy.

our home made star.

gifts for my dad.

Zuza’s permanent collection of birds.

she insisted to have some lights around the windows.

ok, that’s all. I did not comment much since I’m tired. sorry.

Jakub came, a lot of rolls awaiting to scan. simple equation but no time to do it. as a result I have no idea when the next regular post will be. But I, at least, plan a small one as an old year recapitulation in the next few days.