Periodical Cicadas features the sounds of millions of periodical cicadas singing en masse. In this library, there are extended drones and screeches, up-close wing-fluttering pass bys and multiple pharaoh (mating) calls. Two broods, XXII and V, were recorded in 2014 and 2016 respectively. … Read More
Today’s news of the likely scrapping of the American Queen riverboat got my attention this morning. As a newspaper photographer at The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, I was on and around paddle boats quite often. … Read More
Back in 2004, while flipping through a copy of Time magazine, I was struck by the work of photojournalist David Burnett. He was on the campaign trail shooting John Kerry’s presidential bid. Burnett is up there with the best and … Read More
In August 2015, with the imaginative hope of listening to a time long since vanished, I visited Poverty Point State Historic Site, a series of prehistoric earthworks made up of five mounds of varying height and concentric half-circle-shaped ridges dating back 3,400 years.… Read More