Here are a few pictures of a sugarcane harvest made on Wednesday 11 November 2015.
The time immediately after that September 5 outing was the beginning of a long dry spell from railroad photography. Back then, the 51 local train was relatively uninteresting and unpredictable. It often didn’t go farther west than Raceland.
I was also focused on other things at the time, things that I now realize that I was doing for mostly the wrong reasons, and this was also before I learned that I was autistic and all that that meant and before the Trump Era, two things that taught me about how society actually is.
One of those other things had me and a couple of other people with cameras out in a sugarcane field in Raceland on this date.
A sugarcane harvest is something to behold.
I felt both hopeful and uneasy.
I felt uneasy in part because I was being betrayed and abandoned.
The betrayal along with other factors caused me to shelve the project, but not until right after Rush Limbaugh died in February 2021 did I realize that I was doing this for mostly bad reasons that were also good. Everything finally made sense. I had been trying to connect with bad people in my life, trying to get them to accept me.
I was wronged. I didn’t see it back then, but it happened.
That’s all for 2015 pictures, as I didn’t take the camera out again until 2016, such was the messy trauma of my life back then.
Jim
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