Imagine my surprise last night when Chief Red Cloud, the namesake of my hometown in Nebraska, made an appearance on the front of a float in the Infant Mystics parade last night in downtown Mobile. I probably wouldn’t have known … Read More
King Elexis I, aka C’aracher “C.J.” Small, and queen Tasha Montae Lang and others are part of the tableau vivant at the Coronation for the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association Saturday night, Feb. 3, 2008, at the Mobile Civic Center.
I was taking photos of this flier in the street, without the beads, and somebody walked along and dropped some right next to it. I don’t know if it was an accident or not, but it sure made the photo … Read More
Members of the U.S. Navy, from the USS Gettysburg, were in Mobile to celebrate Mardi Gras for a few days.
While photographing the tail end of this parade as it made its way out of the starting area the other night, Meggan and I were both wondering what was holding things up. It turns out that one of the floats … Read More
Here’s an update from the Island Mystics Mardi Gras parade of Dauphin Island recently.
…and in the trees.
I don’t know how to put this, but Mardi Gras is kind of a big deal here. Today the Krewe de la Dauphine kicked off the season with the area’s first parade in Dauphin Island.
I wish you all a happy 2008. We just published our first couple of podcasts that we’re calling Photo Stories. The first one is from Melvin Grier, a photographer for the Cincinnati Post. We interviewed him in July about his paper … Read More
Not too far from Mobile is the fishing town of Bayou La Batre. You might recognize it as the home of Bubba from the movie Forrest Gump.