City-lights-soaked clouds

Come in to the city across Lake Pontchartrain on a muggy cloudy night and you will catch a scene such as this. The clouds soak with city light leaking skyward and the buildings at the edge of the Causeway with their hundreds of eyes still gleaming.

--steve buser

Clouds, New Orleans, Night

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Palette playing

Lake Pontchartrain by New Orleans is one of the best canvases the sun has. I think that it uses the 30 mile wide lake to test it's new palette ideas on. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway lets you get right out in the middle of the action to see the masterpieces as they are being painted.

--steve buser

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Lake Pontchartrain, Causeway, sunset, clouds,

Pelican pal does bridge bonding

This is one of the friendly pelicans that coast along the Causeway bridge over Lake Pontchartrain looking for food as they take advantage of the breeze blowing up over the bridge.

You would thing that at 65 mph it would be hard to shoot one of these guys. Well, it is. I had to shoot several of them before I got one I even partly liked. But, since he's going the same way with us, that means we were just passing him up about 35 mph.

Still, you have to have a steady hand, shoot rapid fire and have a lot of luck.

-steve buser