Pictures of New Orleans

New Orleans Street lamp
New Orleans Street lamp

Nice street lamp, nice brick, nice patina

unused door
unused door

This door doesn't seem to get too much traffic. The tendril, though still young, seems to be settling in for an extended stay.

A Ventilator with Chimney
A Ventilator with Chimney

What can I say? These ventiators are interesting, particularly when juxtaposed against the different styles of chimneys that you can find here in the French Quarter of New Orleans. A small, squat ventilator bides time with a broader chimney.

Gate and Shadow
Gate and Shadow

a nice crisp gate

More Ventilators
More Ventilators

Two chimneys pair the squat ventilators to be found on this roof line in the French Quarter of New Orleans

Pair of Gates
Pair of Gates

Two gates propped against each other guard the alley between two houses in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

Iron hinge
Iron hinge

And then there is the hardware! You can spend hours just looking at all of the cast-iron hinges that you can find in the New Orleans French Quarter. 

Door Patina
Door Patina

it takes decades to get a door just right like this

Brick bits
Brick bits

A natural abstraction, this bit of a wall tells tales of multiple repairs and patches over its lifetime. Water and weather do the rest.

Planter Wall Shadow
Planter Wall Shadow

The planter here was a little lonely so the shadow of the lamp pole sidled up to say hello.

red wall shapes
red wall shapes

If you squint just right you might see a shape that looks like someone riding a horse. ...Or is that a camel? Perhaps it is the Virgin Mary on the back of a donkey. Goodness!

Cracked Wall
Cracked Wall

It is interesting how the underlaying green seeps through the cracks of the cream paint on this wall. It almost has the appearance of a map.

Blue Ventilator
Blue Ventilator

Every once in a while you will find a ventilator that has been painted. This ventilator has been painted blue at some point in its career. It is holding up well and seems a fitting companion for a lonely pigeon

Verdant Balcony
Verdant Balcony

The French Quarter of New Orleans is reknown for its cast iron balconies. They are particularly lovely when they are filled with lush, verdant plantings. Under a blue sky they are like a song for your eyes.

Old Green Door
Old Green Door

Isn't this an interesting door? There is nothing square about it. I had been admiring it every time I walked past it. Imagine my surprise when I walked past it to find someone coming out of it. Yes indeed, this is the door to an occupied place.

Corner store with balconies
Corner store with balconies

This is a place where you can stop and get your po'boy sandwich... understated upstairs

Burgundy Door
Burgundy Door

A burgundy door in a mustard colored wall in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

Corner of a Shutter
Corner of a Shutter

Though the original wood is looking cracked and withered, the brown undercoat must have been a very sturdy paint, it is has stuck through the years outlasting the green paint that was brushed over it. 

Clay Chimney
Clay Chimney

Three different ways to top of a chimney in the French Quarter of New Orleans

Tidy House
Tidy House

A tidy, painted house in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The shutters seem to be spelling out a message in semaphore.

Bright House
Bright House

A bright house with contrasting colored shutters in the French Quarter of New Orleans almost glows under a clear, blue sky.

Grey Wall
Grey Wall

The wall seems giant with the little door set in... grime grit make the patina

Pointed Chimneys
Pointed Chimneys
Nice Couple
Nice Couple

This nice couple was watching the second line parade get started. the spray paint on the awl behind them is the mark inspectors put on houses that showed what might be found inside

Brass Band
Brass Band

In the middle of the afternoon, a brass band holds a spontaneous parade in the French Quarter of New Orleans

House Strikes Tree
House Strikes Tree

Normally it's the other way around, but in the floods of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, this house floated off of its foundation and crashed into a tree/

Hope
Hope

Hope and Community... Positive messages chalked out on this store front. getting the message across/

Pink Wall
Pink Wall

A weathered pink wall. Part of it stained black, another part the cracks seem to have inverted coloring

Pointed Ventilator
Pointed Ventilator

Look at all of the work they go through to dress up this tin roof ventilator. Propped way on top of the houses you might wonder why they went through so much effort to embellish something that would be hardly noticed after the first week. But that is part of the spirit of New Orleans. The recognition that it is the niceties and embellishments of life that take just a little more effort that make all of the difference.

New Orleans Band Leader
New Orleans Band Leader

The French Quarter is always full of surprises. Late one afternoon the sound of a band came echoing down the street. A minute later the band leader came dancing down the street followed by the few musicians of the small ensemble. When you are in New Orleans, you have new things everywhere.

Balcony View
Balcony View

a Balcony View looking upriver from the French Quarter toward the warehouse district

Electric Door
Electric Door

You can be walking down a street daily for weeks. Everything seems normal and ordinary. One day you hear a noise and turn your head. Voila! There it is. 

In the case of this door, I find the more I look at it the more interesting it becomes. The routing of the electrical conduit, the wonderful patina of the concrete wall, the gratiing over the door, the broken glass embedded in the top of the wall. So much stuff to look at!

Clairborne Beauty Mall
Clairborne Beauty Mall

Neither of these are standing... not the best of neighborhoods... There was music playing from one of the windows of the building on the left. I'll bet the rent was cheap.

Storyville Stompers band leader
Storyville Stompers band leader

Preparing for the start of the second line parade for Kufaru. Standing proud, looking good

Cavalry Spiritual Church
Cavalry Spiritual Church

this tiny church is about 15 feet wide and can't be too much deeper... but be a great location for a wedding

House on Dauphine St
House on Dauphine St

This house is on Dauphine Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The eves on front of the house are deep making it tricky to find the right time of day and the right kind of weather to take its picture without dense shadows murking up the tops of the doors. My solution was to take the picture in the morning shooting into the light. Behind the camera is a large building that acts like a giant soft-box and gives an even light to the front of the house.

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Leaving New Orleans
Aug 08, 2006
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Jun 29, 2006
A selections of some pf the interesting artifacts to be found in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Doors, roofs,walls, odds & ends
New Orleans Second Line Parade
Jun 28, 2006
Master percussionist Kufaru died the second week of June. Kufaru was a popular New Orleans musician who has recorded with the Neville Brothers, Emmy Lou Harris and others. He was a generous man who gave back to his community and was well-loved for it. In his honor his friends and family held a second line parade...
Hurricane Katrina
Jun 18, 2006
I came down to New Orleans, almost on a whim, to see my brother who was here for a week to play in a volleyball tournament. I figured, on the side, I could get some info on New Orleans, take some pictures of the Katrina damage and write some stuff about it, yadda yadda...
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Jun 16, 2006
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