Category: New Orleans

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Nostalgia for New Orleans

3/14/2023

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All of these images were taken with my Bilora Box camera which is a medium format camera produced in Germany. Mine is probably from the 1940s. It takes 6 x 9 cm images on 120 roll film. The shutter speed is 1/50 and, without a tripod as I was when I took these, it's basically impossible to get a steady image. So these photos all look like they are from the early 1900s to me. However, I took them in 2015.

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Stages, New Orleans (2016)

2/21/2023

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A fern sparks through a crack in the concrete wall of a mausoleum and casts a distorted shadow; Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans

A pale green painted mausoleum wall with two dark horizontal lines across it, creases in the concrete, and two green ferns growing from a crack.Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans

A metal slatted trash can casts a shadow against a concrete mausoleum wall and is partially hidden by another mausoleum wall perpendicular to it. Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans.

Driftwood sticks driven into the sandy bank of the Mississippi River stand like bones; some Mardi Gras beads have been draped across some; the water appears lazy next to the shore. New Orleans

A large piece of driftwood sits atop some rocks and detritus collected next to the sandy shoreline of the Mississippi River. New Orleans.

A plaster death mask affixed to the outer wall of Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is surrounded by growing mosses and ferns. New Orleans.

Not the usual scenes from New Orleans: the push of plant life bursting through in the above-ground Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 of New Orleans in the heart of the Garden District at Washington Avenue across the street from the famous Commander's Palace Restaurant contrasted with driftwood on the banks of the Mississippi and the bare concrete walls within the cemetery.

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