Photography and random writings from some crazy Cajun with a camera!

I guess that I should make this story with only one picture short and sweet.  To be sure, I took a great many pictures on this date, but, since I do not yet own a film scanner prior to the composition of this essay, this image, which was one of an assortment of slides that […]

Greetings, and welcome to the September 2014 Sampler essay.  All of the better images in this set were published not long after they were taken in 2014. Wednesday, The 3rd We will start at New Orleans Public Belt Railroad’s France Yard, with NOPB 3003 at the southern end of the yard. On that day, I […]

Greetings, and welcome to the July 2014 Sampler essay.  The content of this essay is similar to and follows from the one that preceded it, the “June 2014 Sampler” essay, in that all images in each were made in southeastern Louisiana and that both include several scenes from the New Orleans & Gulf Coast Railway, […]

A Quiet Interlude Greetings, and welcome to the May 2014 Sampler essay.  After the fair-sized “April 2014 Sampler” essay, which itself followed an even larger “March 2014 Sampler” essay, this one will be brief, with only four images, each for the number of days that I took a DSLR-camera picture. The reason for the brevity […]

A Decennial Retrospective Of A Decennial Retrospective Okay, this one will be brief, except that maybe it won’t be.  Nearly all of my already-scanned images from April 2004 (I was still shooting with this thing called “film” back then) area already online; the purpose of this post is twofold: to give a place for the […]

Greetings, and welcome to the March 2014 Sampler essay.  All of the images shown here were made in southeastern Louisiana, either in the metropolitan New Orleans area or in the Houma-Thibodaux area. For a monthly sampler essay, this one will be big, at 18 images, meaning that there were at least 18 days in the […]

Greetings, and welcome to the February 2014 Sampler essay, like the month of January 2014 prior to it, a time of transition – partly because it was a time of serious injury. About a week into this month, I had emergency back surgery.  The neurologist said that, had we waited, I could have been permanently […]

Greetings, and welcome to the January 2014 Sampler essay here on Jimbaux’s Journal, which, of course, chronologically follows from the “December 2013 Sampler” essay.  These “Sampler” essays show one image from each date in the given month in which I made a presentation-worthy photograph; they function as a substitute for full-day blog posts of all […]

This is a compilation post compiling links to all of the single-day posts of pictures made in December 2003.  If you are here only for the links and URLs to those day posts, you can just scroll down to them, even though reading the background information here can help you better understand all of that […]

This set of images was made in the afternoon of Tuesday 30 December 2003, but, first, I must tell you about the train-chasing from the day before that didn’t involve picture-taking.  Please read my December 19 piece previewing these late-December-2003 posts that explains the large quantity of pictures that I historically took late in Decembers […]

This set of images was made on Friday 26 December 2003, after a Christmas that was preceded by a memorable chase of the Lockport Branch train that took place a day after a day of railroad photography done in the expectation that the Lockport Branch would be served on that day. All images made in […]

These images were made on Sunday 21 December 2003.  Remember, as described in the post for the Friday 19 December 2003 picture, this was the beginning of a two-week flurry of railroad photography for the combination of reasons described in that post. On this day, I did a new shot, at a place called Thoroughbred […]

In my post of my one scanned 35mm slide from Friday 19 December 2003, I described my personal pattern – and, specifically, the reasons for my personal pattern – of making a gigantic amount of railroad pictures in the two weeks around Christmas and New Year’s Day compared to the rest of the year.  Well, […]

Greetings, and welcome to what is a one-picture beginning to a grand finale for 2003 pictures.  The last two weeks of 2003 is when my habit of making large amounts of railroad pictures, mostly local to my southern Louisiana home, in the two-week period around Christmas and New Year’s Day began.  The pattern started the […]

I did not realize it at the time, but these were the good old days.  The reason that I didn’t realize it was that there was so much more good that I could have done then, or maybe there wasn’t.  In any case, there were cool trains back then that would cease to exist in […]

Jimbaux goes unnoticed, let the freedom wash away.Losing focus, the pretense is second nature.It’s a broken life that I cling too,Trying to make right.I feel dismayed, just like you do.I feel decayed..So find me a way, to leave this wasted life behind me. (this wasted life)So find me a way, to leave this wasted life […]

Jimbaux’s time, is gone today You flirt with suicide Sometimes, that’s okay Do what others say I’m here, standing hollow Falling away from me Falling away from me. Return To Whoadieville Well, after the intense, great, and memorable day that I had yesterday, I had another intense, great, and memorable day today!  Today, I returned […]

Jimbaux wonders, will you recognize him? Call his name or walk on by. Won’t You Come See About Me? Today was the first day of a two-night trip back home that, according to plans, should include my first visit to New Orleans since my only visit there a month after moving away from the metro […]

Returning Home, But Not For A Night This was supposed to be the first day of a two-night, three-day trip back home, but automobile trouble that I could have adequately addressed earlier prevented that.  So, a victim of bad timing, I had to borrow an automobile to go to the dentist. I awoke today, Wednesday […]

The New Reality Today was the big day!  Today was the day that I floated an idea to Patty that might save my life or at least lead to dramatic improvement. I also got some pictures in the process! I also, however, discovered a serious problem with my camera when I got to the house […]

Jimbaux was in a cold November rain today. Greetings.  I have three poor images from today, but, since it’s been two weeks since my last post, when I got some good action pictures on the Louisiana & Delta Railroad’s Breaux Bridge Branch, and since I have had plenty on my mind lately, I’m going to […]

Welcome to a cursory look back via 35-milimeter film to November 2003.  This is a sample of images from that time, and the sample is dictated by what of my 35-mm slides from that time had been scanned prior to the spring of 2014.  At the time of the publication of this post, I do […]

Jimbaux’s ship isn’t coming, and he just can’t pretend. Hey!  Today is Wednesday 25 October 2023, and I finally made it to Lake Charles and got my first Port Rail action of this fall season, today!  I got a few other shots in the process, too, and I handled some business in the city. This […]

I got a few shots of Amtrak’s eastbound Sunset Limited at its station stop in New Iberia this afternoon after a consultation session with a candidate. Food At first, I went to Whataburger on the corner of Kaliste Saloom Road and Pinhook Road in Lafayette for food. I wish that this would get old. Politics […]

Today, Tuesday 26 September 2023, we went to Lake Charles.  However, since this is my first blog article here in 11 days, and since the most recent was of the second day of my overnight Texas trip, I want to recap some things since then. Recent Days That trip was great.  Because I didn’t arrive […]

Jimbaux wishes that he could flyInto the skySo very highJust like a dragonfly. Death And New Adventures Today, I visited places that I have never before visited, took pictures in some of those places, and broke a bad streak.  I’m in Texas! I want to talk about the last few days, though, since several weeks […]

In this photo essay, published in September 2023, I will do two things. The first is that I will share some scanned film, scanned 35mm color slides, that I took in the first seven months of the year 2003, two decades ago this year, minus the June 2003 trip (because those pictures are already in […]

The 17th was the first day of the rest of my life, but so, too, had been other days before.  I said so on 21 December 2013, and I said so again around the end of May and beginning of June in 2019.  I’m probably too old now to ever say that again about a […]

Greetings, and welcome to the August-September-October 2013 Sampler essay.  Major change was happening right at this time, though it was also major sameness, as indicated at the end of the “July 2013 Sampler” essay. There is so much more that I want to say here.  My pattern of not taking train pictures locally in the […]

The first and foremost question that confronted me in how to incorporate the few pictures that I took from July 2013 to October 2013 inclusive into my pattern of “sampler” essays is whether to include them in a July-October post or whether to split them into a July post and an August-September-October post, because there […]

Jimbaux can’t control you; you’re not his destiny. A Bounty And The Trauma This really was a heck of a day.  I accomplished plenty.  This will be a large post. Today, three days after I visited Baton Rouge and Opelousas, I had to go to the homeland for the first time in six months, and […]

Jimbaux helped them get a box fully of honey. Are You Laughing At Me Now? The lyrics are very much appropriate, in so many ways. Today, as part of my life’s penitence, in my circumstance, while I, a fully-grown adult, was wearing the crowns of other persons, we went to Wright Honey. If you lived […]

The primary purpose of my set of outings today was to take advantage of the cool weather, likely the last cool weather that we shall have for many months, but, in the process, I wanted to access some parks that I had never visited. However, the first thing that I had to do was go […]

Okay, I don’t know what to say about this, but we went today to Palmetto Island State Park. It certainly was interesting, but I am not sure that it was fun. First, I need to so some food preparation. Onions are important. Okay, so, in the afternoon, we entered the park. We found a bathroom. […]

Jimbaux sees that there’s too many men, Too many people, Making too many problems, And there’s not much love to go ’round. It’s Political Wow, what a heck of a day this was! This is the largest and most varied set of images that I have gotten in a while.  While I still think that […]

Greetings, and welcome to the March 2013 Sampler essay. This one will be brief. I was, let’s say, “going through some things” at the time, with a worsening back situation while also stuck working on a job that I felt that I had, for lack of a better characterization, outgrown. This was the month in […]

Greetings, and welcome to the February 2013 Sampler essay. As described in the “January 2013 Sampler” essay, 2013 was a tumultuous year for me. February was largely uneventful except for worsening back problems and a weekend event that foreshadowed what would become my new reality in the coming years. Let’s get right to it. Sunday, […]

Jimbaux hears records in his head everywhere that he goesHe’s got records in his head spinning out of controlThey go round and around and againRound and around and againRound and around and oh yeahRecords in his head. Something Different Well, today was a good day! I explored places that I had not before explored. The […]

Greetings, and welcome to the December 2012 Sampler essay.  After the difficult and lengthy “November 2012 Sampler” essay, this one will be mercifully brief. As I wrote near the end of that essay in the description of the November 25 images, I wouldn’t take out the DSLR camera again until midway through the month of […]

Greetings, and welcome to the November 2012 Sampler essay, which continues to document a time of transition, as did the “September 2012 Sampler” essay and the “October 2012 Sampler” essay. As stated in the October 2012 essay, my grandmother died at the end of September, and we funeralized and buried her in early October as […]

Jimbaux knows it’s everybody’s sinYou got to lose to know how to win. Laura Delta Ian A Sanity-Restoring Expedition These are far from my best photographs, but that doesn’t really matter, because getting good photographs was not the point of this outing. As often happens this time of year in my life after the years […]

Greetings, and welcome to the August 2012 Sampler essay, which will largely follow the pattern of the “July 2012 Sampler” essay, which itself largely followed the pattern of the “June 2012 Sampler” essay. That pattern includes the Wednesday-and-Friday Chip routine.  I had a job near the western limits of the Chip Local, the Union Pacific […]

A Happily Anticlimactic Ending This is it. This was Peartree’s last day railroading. Today is Wednesday 15 June 2022. Forty-nine years ago today, Peartree went to work for and on the Southern Pacific Railroad, the railroad where his father was employed. Today, Peartree worked his last day railroading for the Louisiana & Delta Railroad, where […]

Jimbaux knows that you just don’t get it, you keep it copaceticAnd you learn to accept it, you know you’re so patheticAnd you just don’t get it, you keep it copaceticAnd you learn to accept it, you know you’re so pathetic. Born To Be Down This, 13 June 2022, is Peartree’s last Monday as an […]

Greetings, and welcome to the June 2012 Sampler essay, where you will see one example of the photographs that I took on each day of June 2012 on which I took pictures.  As explained in the “April 2012 Sampler” essay, in April 2012, I began the practice of traveling from Morgan City to New Orleans […]

Jimbaux knows that it’s hard to hold on when there’s no one to lean on. It’s Hard To Be Strong When There’s No One To Dream On This whole damn day was jacked, really. The hospital room was nice. It’s so damn tragic that such an accomplished woman has suffered as she has. So, I […]

Greetings, and welcome to the May 2012 Sampler essay.  The “April 2012 Sampler” essay was unusual in that it was published on the eight of the month of April 2022 so as, explained at the beginning of it, to avoid interfering with the flow of publication of the decennial retrospective blog posts of my spring […]

Greetings, and welcome to the April 2012 Sampler essay.  The circumstances surrounding this post make it different from any other of these “sampler” essays that I have published before. Let me tell you why.  All of these sampler essays are published on the first day of the month in which they are published, but this […]

This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series. On the previous day, I started in Omaha, Nebraska, went through the southwestern corner of Iowa, spent time exploring flood damage and the BNSF Railway’s Saint Joe Line in northwestern Missouri, and then crossed the Missouri River into Kansas before landing at a […]