It's been a busy week on the road in the Miss. Delta, Arkansas and Louisiana. The heat requires me to be on location by 7 a.m. so I can photograph my subjects before they start melting. I used to describe my work as "shooting farmers" until one of my daughter's friends heard me and got this stricken look on her face. So now I try to be politically correct when I talk about my work: I am making environmental portraits of individuals in the rural countryside for editorial projects.
I am from the Delta and do have rather a redneck. Who could blame the kid for thinking I was carrying a gun instead of a camera?
I didn't blog after the 18 miler. I wanted to give myself a few days to see if I was actually going to survive, and also hit the road on Monday. I didn't have the bad blisters on my feet, but my legs were covered in this yucky red diaper rash stuff until yesterday. Nothing seemed to make it better except time.
Yesterday as I was driving back from Rayville, La. I decided to pull over at the Vicksburg Outlet Mall. It was too early for the mall to open but the outside walking area is completed covered. The whole strip is L-shaped and faces west, so it's shaded in the morning. I walked up and down the area for at least 30 minutes several times, and their public bathroom was even open. It was great training, and the added bonus was I didn't find a thing that I needed to buy.
This morning Suzanne and I met in the dark at 5 a.m. We took a brisk hour walk, and discussed the need for a light source on Saturday, especially when we enter the wooded trail.
See ya there!
Debra
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Well, you're lucky no one reported you as deranged walking back and forth and back and forth at the Vicksburg Mall! But, I'm glad you found a nice shady place to walk and wish I could have walked with you guys today although we had a nice walk and run in Belhaven.
Oh well, being pc does not always provide brevity...shootin' farmers is much easier to get out. What a cool sounding job. Well, I guess it is not exactly "cool"...
After the 18 miler I had the same weird red rash on my feet and thighs. Did not itch, or hurt, 'twas just UGLY. Have a good week.
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