After last year’s oil spill disaster, I think it’s safe to say that in many important ways, the Gulf Coast is back. The New York Times’ Campbell Robertson was in the area a couple of weeks ago reporting on the tourist season down here, and I had the opportunity to work with him again. Check out his story.

Things are looking a whole lot better here, but we still have a long way to go for full recovery.

Last month, the Wall Street Journal asked Jeff to visit R&A Oysters in Bayou La Batre to check out how the oyster business is a year after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill occurred. R&A has reduced its operation due to lower demand for Gulf oysters. In other words, business is slow.

It’s been almost a month since tornadoes hit just north of here in Washington County and other parts, and by now, no one is even thinking about those storms, but in their aftermath, I was sent on a quick shoot for the New York Times in the Deer Park area, where the destruction was widespread, and the fatalities tragic.

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Jeff spent the two days after the tornadoes covering the aftermath in Tuscaloosa. The landscape there is forever changed. Our hearts go out to the victims.

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Robbie Brown and Kim Severson had an interesting story in the New York Times on ways states are dealing with budget shortfalls, and I had the opportunity to photograph a manifestation of that. This was a fun shoot for me because I am always interested in agricultural issues and I happen to be a big fan of the University of Florida (my alma mater), which got this program up and running at their West Florida Research and Education Facility in Jay, Fla.

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Jeff was in Montgomery for the 150th anniversary of the Inauguration of Jefferson Davis, which Campbell Robertson wrote about for the New York Times.

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Jeff was in Montgomery for work a couple of weeks ago and made a side-trip to Auburn to photograph the oaks while they are still alive. Very beautiful and very sad.