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

Greetings, and welcome to the December 2014 Sampler essay, which, obviously, follows chronologically from the “November 2014 Sampler” essay that has more images than this essay shows. Something Different This one will be brief, as I took SLR-camera pictures on only four days in the month of December 2014, and all of them share a […]

Greetings, and welcome to the November 2014 Sampler essay, naturally following from the “October 2014 Sampler” essay.  For me, November 2014 was a time of transition, as, during it and the early part of the following month, I was saying goodbye to a fond academic and New Orleans way of life and was starting a […]

Greetings, and welcome to the October 2014 Sampler essay, showing one sample image for each date on which I made a presentable SLR-camera photograph in the month of October 2014.  There are fewer images in this essay than there are in the previous sampler essay, from the previous month that included one of the most […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Greetings, and welcome to the May 2013 Sampler essay. There are plenty of images in this essay, meaning that I took my DSLR camera out and made at least one presentable image with it on several days in the month of May 2013. This was a strange month for me. I came off of medical […]

Storms In Vermilionville? That Enya song “Storms In Africa” came to my mind when I took these pictures. As I started typing this blog essay, I am thinking of the Toto song about rain in Africa and wondering if it may have inspired the Enya song!  This is the first time that I make this […]

Greetings, and welcome to the April 2013 Sampler essay. Many of the nine images shown here have a very “spring” feel to them. Thursday, The 4th I was on my way between Bayouland and Whoadieville when I made this grab shot in Paradís. I wish that I had shot it in RAW. Monday, The 8th […]

Jimbaux hears records in his head everywhere that he goes He’s got records in my head spinnin’ out of control They go round and round and again Round and round and again. Old New Places I had to go to Baton Rouge today.  I got some pictures. My first pictures were in Lafayette, where I […]

Jimbaux is painfully aware that time is a thief. I Was Like A Chinese Spy Balloon! I don’t know what that means, though. Today was my first train-picture outing of 2023.  What’s the deal with me not taking pictures of trains at all in January anymore?  It’s for some embarrassing reasons, really. At about 08:26, […]

Greetings, and welcome to the January 2013 Sampler essay.  For me, this was the beginning of a strange year, though, for me, most years could be said to be strange.  Still, this was the first full year that I would know that I would eventually be losing my home for the most embarrassing of reasons […]

Jimbaux searched for form and landFor years and years he roamedHe gazed a gazeless stareThey walked a million hillsHe must have died aloneA long, long time ago. A Hot Mess Family fragments, and I fragment with it. This probably was inevitable. I probably never had a chance. I read the story in the newspaper that […]

Schriever Is Boring This was just a strange day, which means that this will be a strange post. If you’re seeking brilliant railroad photography, then close out the page and come back later when I have something else to post. This was an emotional day, not surprisingly, because I returned to my homeland to go […]

Greetings, and welcome to the October 2012 Sampler essay, which documents a time of loss and transition in my life.  As told in the “September 2012 Sampler” essay, my paternal grandmother had just died, and the funeral would be in early October.  I was actively pursuing a plan to get myself back to the New […]

Greetings, and welcome to the September 2012 Sampler essay.  As readers of the “August 2012 Sampler” essay would have seen, the defining story at the end of August 2012 was Tropical Storm or Hurricane Isaac, and it would be the story of the beginning of September 2012, too.  The end of the month, however, was […]

Greetings, and welcome to the July 2012 Sampler essay.  This one follows a pattern similar to that of the previous month, particularly in the fact that it covers the area from Saint Mary Parish to New Orleans inclusive, with pictures of the Chip Local and other trains on the Lafayette Subdivision and pictures of trains […]

Now Jimbaux is here, and he’s all aloneStill he knows how it feelsHe’s alone again. Peartree’s Last Day Working The Ground Today, Tuesday 14 June 2022, was Peartree’s second-to-last day railroading and his last day working the ground. Yesterday, I got many pictures on his third-to-last day railroading. We start by the depot in New […]