More footage from The Gulf.....

http://s24.photobucket.com/albums/c23/jderrick/
?action=view&current=judgetour_0001.flv

A still photographer who also shoots video is sometimes referred to as a "platypus," a reference to the Australian mammal's being both one thing and simultaneously something else -- a furry mammal as well as duck-billed, webbed-footed and egg laying.

Shooting for a couple of newspapers over the past few years, which explains the photos and vids and such, being a platypus was a trick I picked up. The same small camera can do both, and the editing software isn't difficult once you get the hang of it. Male platypoda are endowed with a venomous spur on each hind limb, a trick I have not picked up but which does seem rather useful.

In any case, the morning before we took The Misery Tour though some of the hardest hit areas of the city, we met with Judge Madeleine Landrieu, and here is some of what she had to say and some more of what we saw....

check out http://forthegoodofthegulf.blogspot.com/ for more....