(Hollywood, California)

“Scorched earth” gets thrown around so much as a metaphor that it was shocking to see those words put into literal service on the front page of today’s New York Times, heading this photograph by Lynsey Addario.

New Orleans, November 8, 2007.

Stepping shamelessly onto the path laid clear by the New Yorker, digital emunction is now welcoming entries for the first (and probably last) edition of the New York Times Photo Caption Contest. The photos of the day, by Jay Mallin and Caleb Jones, appeared on page A12 of today’s NYT.

Send your entries here. The best entries will be posted in this space and the winner will take home a prize of unutterable value.

Some photos from the aftermath of Saturday’s Clark Street Bridge Percussion Orchestra, organized by Hugh Musick in Chicago.

Photos from the Stoney LaRue concert at Joe’s in Chicago last Thursday now have a home.