KATC TV Lafayette Lousiana
I worked as a camera man reporter editor for a year, I was 25 years old. Young and naive and my first real job (I had worked as a store window decorator before). It was exhilarating. I was on call all day, shooting interviews and political events, the day to day life of Lafayette, a Cajun city in Louisiana. A place of cultural texture and depth of feelings like the bayous that surrounded the town. We shot famous and not so famous people, athletes and no bodies. Politicians and dead people. Weather events and sports events. Court house drama and city meetings, prisons and people who should have been in jail, 100 year old twins. You name it we shot them. It was on analogue tape at the time, involving editing and taping and producing tv reports in a rush to get on the day’s news. I was part of a team of a reporter and a sound guy. We had fun, we had adventures. On weekends I was given a modified police car in case of a late breaking story. I had a pager. I was important. On a small scale. I could only take it for a year before I went back to university and premedical studies. But I remember one story, no one wanted to take, about a swingers club that had been busted. I went to shoot the story and found a room with lots of tables and laid out on the tables were hundreds - maybe thousands - of black and white pictures of orgies. Very disturbing. Why?
I wasn’t into orgies or anything like that. I had a girl friend and we were living together and in love. It was the best of times; it lasted two years. Then we married.
Pictures of Cajuns dancing and Rayne frog festival
