Well another amazing month here in the crescent city. We miss you all and wish you were here. With that said we are also glad sometimes to have downtime, even if we choose not to be down.

We started the month off right with the krewe of jingle. Dawn and the pussyfooters were in the largest christmas parade of the year here. It’s pretty amazing that she gets to do that, and I get to tag along without any hassle.

This was the last big event I shot with my canon 5D MK II and then I sold it.

I was getting tired of the weight of that massive camera, and I also wanted to get out and do more photography of the city and I realized it was just the massive ness of that thing that kept me from enjoying photography again. So she was sold.

After selling the camera I decided that I had to get a new one instantly. So I got myself a Sony a7r and have not regretted it one second.

It lets me get back to the photos I like to take, and my new years resolution for better or worse is to shoot a year in black and white.

so far I’m just loving the process of learning a new camera, the challenges, the fun it is to be a new photographer again. Learning how black and white looks I mean who knew that hot pink looks like bright white?

Thats dawn trying to get our christmas cards out in time, a feat we didm not even get close to accomplishing sorry people, we are super busy with important parade and costuming.

We spent christmas with our friend and neighbor around the corner Lisa.

she throws a party every year and it was a ton of fun.

shortly after christmas my friend Demir came with his wonderful new girlfriend Carey and we have been out with them just about non stop since.

Showing them the levy that protects us and the 9th ward and also is still a heavily trafficked shipping route for barges and train loading and unloading to the Mississippi.

Demir and Carey went home early one night, it is a rough city and we met up with Rachael, Meg, Whit, Amy, and Jessica for some amazing superhero second line.

Dawn shot one of the only photos you will ever see of me.

And since dawn hates the photo I love Ill keep it off the page (hint you can click back and forth on any of these photos to see more). Dawn enjoying the music and dancing in the streets, I mean where else?

This year has been a pretty fun ride and we hope the next is just as awesome. If you haven’t been come, if you have come back. We would love to hear from you and see your shiny little faces in the crescent city. And remember anywhere else the first tuesday of march is just another tuesday here… We dance in the streets dump the ashes of the dead in the Mississippi, and remember our friends in the most amazing way you can legally in america.