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Click to Return to Home Page Louisiana Bayou Photos for Decor or Gifts |
| + Louisiana wetlands erosion is the greatest of any coastal erosion in this country, due to dams and levees along the Mississippi River. The Mississippi has been thus engineered since the flood of 1927, but often the solution to one problem creates another problem. Having once occurred naturally, there is no proper redistribution of silt in its delta. The Louisiana coast is losing an alarming equivalent of a football field of wetland every half hour or so. Barrier islands and wetlands that once served as buffers for hurricanes have been lost, thus leaving the coast all the more vulnerable. Hurricanes strike farther inland and with greater intensity, as with Hurricanes Gustav-Ike and Katrina-Rita. Areas that are about to disappear today eerily foreshadow the future of towns north of the coastline. |
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| 1 Coastal Erosion | 2 Bayou Sunset | 3 Oak Tree |
| + High quality Louisiana Bayou Photos were taken by photographer Paul Goyette during his visit to this area in February, 2008. Paul's artistic eye and sensitivity to the issues elegantly capture the threatened coastal environs. |
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| 4 Stilts | 5 Raising Houses | 6 Rusted Home |
| + These photographs are printed on Fujicolor Crystal Archive professional photographic paper using Fuji Frontier printers, processed through professional Fuji Hunt Chemicals. The archival quality of this process is 50+ years, beore fading may occur. Prints are available in a large 11"x14" size for $75 each and a smaller 5"x7" size for $45 each. |
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| 7 Storks' Vigil | 8 Coastal Debris | 9 Levee Construction |
| + Paul Goyette's photos of this special place and people can be seen extensively at Bayou Grace, featuring many of the photographs available from Greetings in Christ. More of Paul's stunning photography can be seen at Paul Goyette. Close clicked windows to return. |
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| 10 Wetland Restoration | 11 Brackish Waters | 12 Lugger |
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+ The people of this valuable wetland coast are an industrious, charming people with generational roots, many never having ventured outside their own community. They are content with their humble homes, wanting only to keep their wetlands from sinking and washing away. They do not have the resources to relocate, nor do they want to. They have been a people without a voice to defend their home. Their deep Christian faith and hope for the future sustain them. |
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