Driving through the city of New Orleans in August 2006, Klingensmith advanced his technique and equipment in order to create a new and intimate experience for the viewer. He wanted to drive through the neighborhoods of New Orleans and somehow capture images that would reflect the current state of recovery efforts in the area one year after Hurricane Katrina. He hit the road in August of 2006 in his 2003 Subaru Forester with a Nikon D2X mounted inside a roof top carrier. The camera was tethered to an Apple MacBook Pro and Klingensmith kept a record of the trip using a Garmin eTrex Legend GPS device. He collected over eight thousand photographs of the city’s neighborhoods in five days. Upon returning home, he placed the images into an interactive map on the internet, allowing visitors to research and explore the city as it stands nearly one year after the storm.
