Happy New Year

Miami, FL 1/2009 from the series CRUISE

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Yesterday, today was tomorrow
And tomorrow, today will be yesterday
So ring out the old
Ring in the new
Ring out the old
Ring in the new*

* George Harrison - Ding Dong, Ding Dong

BODY PARTS

Blue and White Truck, Baton Rouge LA 2010 from the series AUTOMATIC

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Function was valued more than form , concerning cars and trucks, when I was growing up!

I have come to realize everyone does not feel the same.

REMEMBERING JORDAN

Jordan Gautreau, Baton Rouge LA 1997 from the series Perilous Pilgrimage

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I was working on the series , Perilous Pilgrimage , when I made this image of my nephew, Jordan Gautreau in 1997. The idea for the work was that growing up was fraught with risk and that over time, children took on more adult like mannerisms.

Tragically, Jordan was killed , at the age of 22 this past November, in a freak automobile accident. He had made it through that Perilous Pilgrimage, only to be taken prematurely as a young adult.

I have always loved , and appreciated, the way photography stops time and leaves indelible images for us to always remember.

ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS

Support Wires and Shadows, Baton Rouge LA 2010

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I am most interested in photographs which condense the essential elements of color, form and content.

Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season) *

Parking Lot, Baton Rouge LA 2010

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To everything - turn, turn, turn
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time for every purpose under heaven

A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time to love, a time to hate
A time of peace, I swear it's not too late!

*The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)

COLOR BY NUMBERS

Tennis Racket Still Life, Baton Rouge LA 2010

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A photograph filled with color does not make it a color photograph.

MERRY CHRISTMAS et. al.

Wreath on Fence, Baton Rouge LA 2010

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MERRY CHRISTMAS et. al.

POWER & PEACE

White Power, New Orleans LA 2000

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This season is not about power,

it's about peace!

PEACE

WHITE STALLIONS

White Car and Wheels, Baton Rouge LA 2010

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She had four white stallions coming up around the bend
four strong angels at her command to send
four more seasons, for all thats broken to mend

I got four good reasons why I cant go back there again*

* Four White Stallions Lyrics

by Counting Crows

SEASONAL COLORS

Painted Concrete Curb, Baton Rouge LA 2010

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Photographs which offer information but no mystery, will fail to hold our attention.

WINTER FOLIAGE

Winter Foliage, Baton Rouge LA 2010

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In South Louisiana, the climate seems to vacillate between Summer and Winter, Winter and Summer, which proves to be confusing to the trees.

Get up you're asleep at the wheel

Car in Traffic, London UK 2010 from the series UKOK

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24-7 Truck Stop Plaza
Turn off headlights turn on hazards
3 A.M. is when I gazed
Eyes glazed I'm dazed and then I fade
To black now were back
'On The Road' like Kerouac
Down the turnpike high rate of speed
Up all night like Gilbert Gottfried
You got your Jesus on the dashbord but the devil's under my hood
You're taking it down legal I'm pullin' it up to no good
God is your co-pilot I let Satan ride shotgun
You pay a toll to get to heaven but on the road to hell there's none
Get up you're asleep at the wheel
Get up you're asleep at the wheel
Get up you're asleep at the wheel *

*Asleep At The Wheel Lyrics
Artist:Bloodhound Gang

*This Song Has No Title

Covered Motorcycle, Baton Rouge LA 2010

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And each day I learn just a little bit more
I don't know why but I do know what for
If we're all going somewhere let's get there soon
Oh this song's got no title just words and a tune*

*This Song Has No Title

by Elton John and Bernie Taupin

LEFT is RIGHT!

Capital Road, Baton Rouge LA 2010 from the series BEING BATON ROUGE

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I almost deleted the email I received this morning with no subject line, from an address I did not recognize. Fortunately, I opened it and turned out to be from a fairly well known writer, working for a famous publication, enquiring about featuring my work about cars!

This evening, I opened an email from a museum director telling me he was planning a show around my work, featuring me AND the two major William(s) of the medium!

OLD SCHOOL

OLD SCHOOL, Baton Rouge LA 2010 from the series Automatic

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first of all I wanna thank my connect
the most important person with all due respect
thanks to the duffle bag the brown paper bag
the nike shoe box for holding all this cash
Boys in blue who put greed before the badge
the first pusher who ever made the stash
the roc boys in the building tonight
oh what a feeling I'm feeling life
thanks to the lames ..... with bad aim
thanks to a little change I'll tear you out the game
bullet wounds'll stop your bufoonery
thanks to the paster rapping at your eulogy
to little kim and them you know the women friend who
carry the work cross state for a gentleman
yea, thanks to all the hustlers, and most important to you, the customer **Jay-Z ROC BOYS (And the winner is...)

What's the Story

Royal Ascot, London UK 2006 from the series UKOK

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A good photograph is like a good story, but

with a lot left to read between the lines.

All we need's a fast machine

Mardi Gras Car, Baton Rouge LA 2010 from the series AUTOMATIC

We got rockstars in the Whitehouse
All our popstars look like porn
All my heroes hit the highway
They don't hang out here no more
You can tell me on my cellphone
You can page me all night long
But you won't catch this freebird
I'll already be long gone
Like Steve McQueen
All we need's a fast machine
And we're gonna make it all right*

*Sheryl Crow - Steve McQueen

SERIAL KILLING

Louisiana State Capital environs, Baton Rouge LA 2006

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As part of the ongoing body of work,

devoid of being part of any conceptual series -

I am serial killing.

A Choice of Weapons*

Nikon camera, circa early 1980's

In the Summer of 1982, I was living in the small town of Ville France sur Mer.

I had enrolled in a month long French immersion course, while waiting for the Tour

De France to start. This was my second year to cover the Tour.

The place I shared with two Europeans had been broken into about a week before the tour and all of my equipment was stolen. We filed a police report, but I knew it was gone forever.

It was interesting replacing a whole photojournalist Nikon kit in the South of France. I found replacement cameras and this Nikon was one of them. The 1982 Tour was one of it’s last used as a journalist tool. Subsequently, it’s gotten plenty of use doing all my other work. Unfortunately, the camera has been used , abused and may be near the end of life!

It was my weapon of choice and I now don’t know what to replace it with……..

* 1967 Autobiography by Gordon Parks