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This male Northern Shoveler was feeding on a big moss patch near shore at Lafrenere Park and didn't know I was around.
He kept feeding with his back to me and his head underwater. Then he picked his head up and turned toward the sun and swam across the lake and was gone. The sky was completely overcast but still fairly bright. The dark colors of the bird slightly slowed the image exposure causing the water to have a slight high key appearance. I liked the image so here it is. :-)
A brown pelican cruising the shore at Shell Beach, Louisiana.
This heron is stalking the swamp for food!!!
He was sneaking around slowly and catching crawfish fairly regularly. Image taken at Jean Lafitte National Park.
One of the adult female pelicans at Shell Beach, Louisiana.
Mr. Pelican rests on the post and looks like he just ate a big meal!
I badly needed to sit down awhile but I refused to sit on these.
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In Kenner, Louisiana, on June 21st, 2018, inside Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY).
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Not a sign of the times but a real location. If one passes the sign then they would end up in the water in southeast Louisiana! This is at the end of Highway 46.
I have proposed an installation of rows of sturdy bollards along the boundaries of the striped area.
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In downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 21st, 2018, the driveway of a parking garage beneath the First Bank and Trust Tower (right, built 1987, designed by Welton Becket and Associates) on the east side of O'Keefe Avenue between Poydras Street and Perdido Street.
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My first encounter with a kestrel. I was photographing pelicans and happened to see this bird sitting on a wire between two fish camps and got a couple shots before he quickly left the scene.
Yes now empty your brain of all perceptions and knowledge, and replace these with memories of online aerial pictures of the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain, that famous brackish estuary in southern Louisiana.
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In Kenner, Louisiana, on June 21st, 2018, the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain including the municipal park "Laketown" (bottom) as viewed from a plane preparing to land at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
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"Quelle vue magnifique sur l'Interstate 10 dans le charmant Kenner, en Louisiane!"
Seven heavenly traffic lanes. "Sept voies de circulation paradisiaques."
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In Kenner, Louisiana, on June 21st, 2018, Interstate 10 west of Williams Boulevard, as viewed from a plane preparing to land at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
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The dark background is WATER under a heavily shaded bayou embankment!!! The pelican was on a post along the bayou but partly in sun. I just lined the bird up with the heavy shade. The exposure was taken off his white neck and helped to create the dark background too.
One of the ospreys at Shell Beach, Louisiana. This is my first osprey image I've uploaded as I seldom see them and usually a long way off. They are definitely beautiful birds!!! :-)
"ON PERDIDO STREET OCCURS!" I exclaimed as I pointed urgently at the backhoe loader.
Do you call these orange-and-white traffic channelizer/delineator posts "traffic cones"? Some people do!
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In downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 21st, 2018, at the southeast corner of Perdido Street and O'Keefe Avenue.
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A female brown pelican at Shell Beach, Louisiana. She was sitting for awhile but stood up and flexed her wings showing off her beautiful plumage.
One of the oyster boats that operates out of Shell Beach, Louisiana. I don't know him just saw his colorful boat.
One of the brown pelicans at Shell Beach, Louisiana.
Yea the streetcars on the St. Charles Streetcar Line are mostly 900-series Perley Thomas streetcars manufactured in 1923-1924. Don't forget!
Atop yonder column from 1884 to 2017 was displayed a brass statue of Robert Lee, a horrible man who ought never to have been worshipped that way!
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In downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 21st, 2018, a streetcar on the St. Charles Streetcar Line (73000873 on the National Register of Historic Places, a National Historic Landmark), in Lee Circle at Howard Avenue.
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One of the brown pelicans at Shell Beach, Louisiana.
An image for Good Friday. This cross stands at the end of the road at Shell Beach, La. Shell Beach is located in southeast Louisiana in St. Bernard Parish. This area was devastated in Hurricane Katrina!!! Near this cross is a monument to the people of this area who lost their lives in that hurricane!!! Happy Easter weekend to everybody!