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An Opportunity Created By A Disaster Greetings, and welcome to the September 2005 Sampler essay.  As described in the recent “August 2005 Sampler” essay, Hurricane Katrina caused a disruption to my life, as it did to so many other lives (it also ended the lives of more than a thousand persons and permanently displaced many […]

Continued Adventures In Digital SLR Photography, Travels, A New Job, and Katrina Greetings, and welcome to the August 2005 Sampler essay, which chronologically follows from the “July 2005 Sampler” essay that I strongly suggest that you read or have read before trying to understand the content in this essay. July ended with my flying via […]

by admin on 2015/05/16 Jimbaux is still alive. [This essay was written in May of 2015 shortly after these images were made and is being reposted here because the original article published then was destroyed in a website crash in 2017.  What is presented here is the same essay, saved by Wayback Machine, with only the slightest of editing […]

Jimbaux blames you (no, not you), for all the scars he bears. [This essay was written in March of 2015 shortly after these images were made and is being reposted here because the original article published then was destroyed in a website crash in 2017.  What is presented here is the same essay, saved by Wayback Machine, […]

I do not remember much of December 2004 prior to the holidays toward the end of the month.  This essay naturally follows my 30 October 2004 essay, since, as of this writing 20 years after these images were made, none of my other slides from that time are scanned. I do know that, though I […]

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 […]

Jimbaux sees that now there’s a look in your eyes Like black holes in the sky. Food, Friends, And Trains Hi, there.  My pal The Mid-City Marine and I had a good time today, even though we saw only two trains. We had a good long talk, and that really was the point, but we […]

I finally got my telephoto zoom lens back!  It was costly to repair, I am glad that I had that little experiment last week of shooting the Port Rail train and other trains with only the medium-range lens, and I am glad that I don’t have to do that again! I got a few decent […]

Jimbaux sees that now there’s a look in your eyesLike black holes in the sky. Hi, there.  It’s been a long time, and, with my first pictures in months, I have plenty to say, as a shocking piece of personal news a few weeks ago is, along with some other personal drama that I am […]

Greetings, and welcome to the August 2014 Sampler essay.  This one will be brief, because I took SLR-camera pictures on only three days in the month of August 2014, both because of the August heat and because I had my second back surgery of the year that month. Another relevant factor here about this essay […]

Jimbaux will take these broken wingsAnd learn to fly againLearn to live so free. A Wasted Opportunity Okay, today was day six of this job that I am doing in Morgan City.  We shall recap.  On the first day, July 1st, I photographed the Union Pacific Railroad New Iberia Turn in Berwick, in Patterson, and […]

Jimbaux knows it’s everybody’s sinYou got to lose to know how to win. Hell Day Number 3 Just as I did on Monday and just as I did yesterday, today, Wednesday 3 July 2024, I went to Morgan City to do some work and then, hours later after quitting working for the day, I left […]

Hey!  I had to go to Morgan City today to do some work, and I got some shots of the Union Pacific Railroad’s New Iberia Turn heading westward in the afternoon. I may be doing more of this over the next week or so. For now, though, let’s recap a few things since the last […]

Jimbaux was momentarily livin’ on the edge. There’s Something Wrong With The World Today Wow!  What a heck of a day this was!  “This will be a day long remembered”.  No, I didn’t attempt to destroy any rebels, nor was I much in the way of a rebel myself, at least not a rebel with […]

Greetings, and welcome to the June 2014 Sampler essay, which will showcase examples of a return to being active in taking pictures after the lull from the previous month as exhibited in the “May 2014 Sampler” essay.  All of the 12 images in this essay were made in southeastern Louisiana, and all but two of […]

It’s Not That I Hate The Heat – It’s That The Heat Hates Me Until yesterday, I had not planned to go out and see the Canadian Pacific 2816 that came through southwestern Louisiana today, that we have known for some time would come southward as part of Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited railroad’s Final […]

I got some shots at Lafayette Yard today.  Since it’s been a month and a half since the last blog article, since it has been a month-and-a-half since I got any presentable SLR-camera images, I have plenty to say! In March, I was reading Confucius Lives Next Door, partly in preparation for the “April 2004 […]

Greetings, and welcome to the April 2014 Sampler essay.  The Same – And Different While this sampler essay is structured in the same way in which other sampler essays are structured, and while it naturally follows the previous sampler essay, the “March 2014 Sampler” essay, in that it is of similar subject matter and in […]

I returned to New Iberia today, Friday 22 March 2024, and it was a great day.  I got some excellent health news, the weather was great, and I got a few pictures. All but three of the images in this episode are cellular-telephone images. Last time, three days ago, I went to New Iberia and […]

One of my favorite regular places to watch and photograph trains on the Lafayette Subdivision was known as Thibodaux Junction on Acadia Road in northern Lafourche Parish one mile east of Schriever (which is in Terrebonne Parish.)  I say “was” because the location is no longer publicly accessible, since the parish turned the right-of-way over […]

In March of 2014, I published here on Jimbaux’s Journal images of scanned 35-milimeter film slides that I had taken as photographs 10 years to the day after I had taken the pictures.  A few of my presentable already-then-scanned images from March of 2004 didn’t make it into blog posts at that time, and I […]

Jimbaux doesn’t know where he’s goingBut he sure knows where he’s been. Hi, there.  So, today is Saturday 17 February 2024, and I spent the night at my friend’s house after coming into town yesterday.  I had a difficult meeting today, and I managed to get some decent pictures afterward. Today, I made my first […]

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 […]

Okay, yes, yesterday’s article was very long, primarily because it included a month’s worth of notes since before Christmas.  This one, following only yesterday’s post, will be much shorter! We started today in Texas. I went for a long predawn walk, and these two images were made between 05:00 and 05:15. I then got gasoline […]

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 […]

Why? My goal – and my deep hope – for Monday 22 December 2003, the day of the winter solstice, was to chase the Lockport Branch train, the train serving my favorite remaining railroad branchline in the world, a branch on which I had not photographed action since July.  Why, if this was my favorite […]

Jimbaux remembers when the days were long And rolled beneath a deep blue sky Didn’t have a care in the world With mommy and daddy standin’ by But “happily ever after” fails And we’ve been poisoned by these fairy tales. A Rather Insipid Title, I Know Today was a rather interesting day! I went to […]

I went to work today! Today is Tuesday 19 December 2023, and let me just say a few things from the last few days before I get to the pictures and stories from today. Saturday, December 16th At 06:00 on this day, I was out for a walk, the temperature was 59F, and it was […]

Jimbaux is born to be downHe’s learned all his lessons before now. Well, today was a productive day!  I did not get any stellar pictures, but I went to places that I had not previously been, and I learned some things.  So, that’s good! The day started out with the goal of seeing and photographing […]

Sunday 7 December 2003 was a very noteworthy day in an action-packed weekend.  Two days before, on Friday 5 December 2003, I photographed the ML 14 arriving late in Raceland due to it being the replacement locomotive that day.  The next day, Saturday 6 December 2003, I took some pictures in some locations west of […]

Here is a set of images that I made on Saturday 6 December 2003, and it’s important to read the post from the outing the day before to understand what happened on this day. I ventured westward on this day to places heretofore unexplored and unphotographed by me. I started the day at Schriever, milepost […]

When reading these blog articles of 2003 pictures published in 2023, it’s important to remember that, as described in the post that previewed the publication of these 2003-2005 images, all of these are scanned slides that were scanned before early 2014.  I have other presentationworthy slides from that time, but they are not scanned. On […]

Greetings, and welcome to the December 2013 Sampler essay.  December 2013 was a period of transition in my life, as I finally permanently left the employer at which I had had my greatest professional – and even personal – success after sputtering for more than three years after burning out. I didn’t use my DSLR […]

Jimbaux cries when angels deserve to die. I Got My Camera Back, Repaired! Hey, what’s going on?  I have only one picture today, one that I already posted on Facebook, but it’s also a story of the resolution of the camera-sensor problem that was evident in my last posting from six days ago. Today is […]

Jimbaux does not know that he is a shooting star. Hi, there.  It’s been a week since I last got some shots, and I ended the brief dry spell today at the same sorry place where I photographed a railroad scene a week ago: the Southpark spur. Latey, I have been thinking about my imagined […]

Greetings, and welcome to the November 2013 Sampler essay. You will recall from the “August-September-October 2013 Sampler” essay that I took almost no SLR-camera pictures in August, September, and October 2013, and most that I did take were of lettuce that I was growing! It was a very difficult time for me, as would be […]

Jimbaux never knew we were living in a worldWith a mind that could be so sureNever knew we were living in a worldWith a mind that could be so smallNever knew we were living in a worldAnd the world is an open courtMaybe we don’t wanna live in a worldWhere our innocence is so short. […]

Jimbaux welcomes you to where time stands stillNo one leaves and no one willMoon is full, never seems to changeJust labelled mentally deranged. Hi, there.  Today, I decided to take a bunch of pictures in Lafayette.  Since this is the first blog article since the first day of the month, I’ll write about what has […]

Welcome to a cursory look back via 35-milimeter film to October 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 […]

Today, Friday 15 September 2023, was the day of the funeral that I came here to Texas yesterday to attend.  Yesterday was a great day, with me traveling to places where I had not been and getting a few pictures in both Louisiana and Texas in the process. The host noticed that I had lost […]

I went to New Iberia today. I got down below 182 pounds yesterday.  My weight-loss efforts have stalled in the mid 180-lb range. Yesterday, I took my first afternoon walk in a long time.  Part of my problem is that, even though I have been really busy in the mornings, I have been quite sedentary […]

So, she and I met, finally. We had a neurodivergent meeting. We met at Café Bella in Oil City. It was great. It’s great to finally connect with people like you, especially when you’ve been knowing about each other for a long time. I then went to Target. Remember Harvey?  I miss it, strangely enough. […]

Jimbaux knows what he needs, and he needs it fast. The Big Day Today is the big day!  Today is the day that I took the exam for which I have been preparing for four years! I started my walk before 05:25 today, and, actually, the weather was quite pleasant.  That seemed even then to […]

Today is Saturday.  We went to Leroy.  I got some cat pictures and some tree pictures. Lately, I have been working in Photoshop, reprocessing some old scanned slides.  I will be posting them here on the blog and on Facebook over the course of the next year and change. I have also been having an […]

Jimbaux is feeling miles away You think he’s got it made He doesn’t belong here. I Don’t Belong Here Greetings, and welcome to the June 2013 Sampler essay. As sampler essays on this publication go, this one is actually rather significant, though not because of either the quality of pictures or the quantity of pictures […]

Jimbaux is a hellraiser, or, maybe, he is not. So, I had to go to Baton Rouge today, for the same reason that I went there in early March, though most of the pictures from today are from around or in Lafayette. This is the first blog article in which my notes from the essay […]