Frank Relle

New Orleans Photographer The basic tenet of my photography is: Explore, Create, Share, Comprehend, and Repeat. This is a visual journal of that process. www.frankrelle.com

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Water, Marsh, Sky

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Thank you #robreiner for giving me lines I can repeat forever and for adding my Fausse photograph to your art collection. Only 8 Fausse photographs remain in the edition of 40 and @marsseen79 has one of them. (at Frank Relle Photography)

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Lookin so pretty and fresh off the press. See y'all next Thursday night for the publication celebration with @knowlouisiana Party details in profile link. (at Frank Relle Photography)

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Press check for cover of the upcoming issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine, thanks @KnowLouisiana @LaSeafoodBoard (at Garrity Printing)

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I went out to the flooded areas yesterday because I have a boat and I thought I could help. I found without proper planning, good information and coordination with local government agencies my efforts like those of countless other rescue boats ended in frustration and disaster sight seeing that put ourselves as rescuers in harms way. It's tough wanting to help so badly and not really being prepared to do so. The destruction to people's property was mind boggling but the overwhelmingly positive human spirit and desire to help others made a bigger impact on me. Today I've tried to organize and share information for rescue efforts. I hope it did some good and hope everyone who is still struggling with this crisis finds peace and some security soon. #laflood thanks @mahyowie for always being up for anything.

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Some people make it rain. Me, I like to make it shine.

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New Orleans is all kinds of unfathomable, a city of amorphous boundaries, where land is forever turning into water, where lines that elsewhere seem firmly drawn are blurry; where whatever you say requires more elaboration; where most rules are full of exceptions the way most land here is full of water. - Rebecca Snedeker and Solnit, Unfathomable City

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I don't like soggy croutons. #untilthewater

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Dig deep. Root yourself. #motivationalnature #olympictrees

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Slide to the left. (at Casamento's Restaurant)

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Sleeping suspended in cypress over water is dreamy but trying to sleep in the back your van with all your gear is what dreams are made of. #wheredoyourdreamsleep (at Atchafalaya Basin Bridge I-10E)

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Do you prefer last night's tunnel of light or tonight's tunnel of darkness?

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And then I saw a path through a tunnel of trees over water, leading to a bright light.

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I found my audience. (at Frank Relle Photography)

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I'm back in New Orleans for a bit. Come by the gallery at 910 Royal Street for swamp stories. I'll be here till 3. (at Frank Relle Photography)

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Sleeping in the swamp during the middle of summer is rough but getting your tent in the right spot can make it a midsummer night's dream. (at Louisiana Swamp)