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New Orleans, Late February, 2007

2007-12-21 John Winkelman

I just uploaded 88 photos from a trip my brother, his fiance and I took to New Orleans back in February of this year. Our first day there Dad (who lives just north of Lake Pontchartrain), took us on a tour of the parts of the city which were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Or damaged by the hurricane and destroyed by the incompetence of elected officials all the way up and down the chain of command. I guess how you look at it depends on how forgiving you are feeling at any given moment.

Note that these photos were taken eighteen months after the hurricane hit. For those of my readers who are familiar with Grand Rapids, Michigan, imagine Kentwood with an eight foot high-water mark on every house.

Mardi Gras itself was beautiful, and fun, and something I recommend everyone experience at least once in their lifetime.

Click on the photo to see the rest of the set.

More from Russia

2007-12-17 John Winkelman

I just uploaded 24 more photos from my trip to Russia in 1994. Click the above photo to see the rest of the set.

That’s me in the front row, in the trench coat and glasses.

Again, Alaska 2003

2007-12-02 John Winkelman

It being a cold, rainy, rotten day, I spent the past hour or so sorting and uploading about 175 photos from a vacation my brother, my mother and I took to Alaska, back in 2003. Click on the above photo to see the thing.

More Russia Photos

2007-10-08 John Winkelman

More photos posted from the Russia trip. the one above is of the ceiling in one of the cathedrals in Saint Petersburg. I will have to dig out my thirteen year old notebook to figure out which one it is.

Catching Up

2007-09-10 John Winkelman

I just scanned, cropped, straightened and adjusted another fourteen photos from my 1994 trip to Russia. Eighteen down, about eighty to go.

I also just finished updating the Crime Map. So far this year (that I know of) there have been eighteen murders. In 2006 there were 19 murders. We still have almost four months to go until the end of the year. With a little hard work, we can easily surpass last year. Our shareholders demand nothing less of us.

Prague, 1994

2007-08-31 John Winkelman

This is a test photo to see how my scanner (which I am using for the first time) works. The photo is from a set I took back in the Spring of 1994, when I and a group of students from Grand Valley State University and Indiana University Bloomington, along with our professors, spent six weeks in Russia.

This photo is from a tour of Prague on the way in.

More photos as I figure out a simple system for scanning, cleaning, and uploading.

The Rest of the India Photos

2007-08-23 John Winkelman

I just finished uploading the rest of my India photos to Flickr. You can see the set here. The photos are tagged and titled, but not yet described. That part takes the most time.

This is (was) the youngest monk in the monastery in February 2001. He was six. Unfortunately I cannot find my notebook so I cannot remember his name.

India, 2001

2007-08-15 John Winkelman

After a couple of days of panicked searching I found all of my old photos from India. I just finished uploading 100 photos of the Cham dance, part of the Tibetan New Year celebration in February of 2001 at the Dzongkar Choede monastery.

More (many more) photos to follow!

Crow

2007-07-16 John Winkelman

I snapped this photo while Cynthia and I were bicycling along the trail around Little Traverse Bay at the edge of Petoskey, MI. I have never been able to get this close to a crow (~25 feet) with a camera.

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2007-02-06 John Winkelman

In May of 1994 I spent a month in the Hotel Rus, drinking vodka and Georgian wine, taking dozens of photographs, and generally having the time of my life. It was here that I got into the habit of keeping a daily journal, something which I have kept doing, more or less, ever since. I still pull out the photos once in a while to remind myself of what it was like to be 25 in St Petersburg.