Monthly Archives: May 2018
Floral Tribute
Even the flowers were dead…
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.24.2018
Cross Shadow
Everyone’s probably heard “The best camera is the one you have with you.”
On my morning cemetery tour, I had two cameras with me – the one I considered the “real” camera, and my phone. I tried to get this shot with the “real” camera, but it kept on not working out like I wanted, so eventually I decided to give the phone a try.
Which just shows that sometimes the best camera is the other one, the one that’s in your pocket.
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.24.2018
Your daughter
There are some photographic things I almost always do: walk around back, look inside. And read what’s been left. This tomb had a rain-battered copy of King Lear, opened just as you see it here.
These tombs generally have many people buried in them, so I am making assumptions about the relevance of on of the lines in the open page. It says, “Your daughter is not well.”
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.24.2018
Destitute Orphan Boys
Maybe one of the things New Orleans is most famous for are its cemeteries, which have above-ground tombs. You can imagine that I’d get in a cemetery visit or two while I was in town, and so I headed over to this one early one morning.
(Outside the gates, there was a man selling bottled water. It was, he said, the cheapest water in town. A travel tip from me to you.)
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.24.2018
Bill’s lunch was ready
Y’all! This place was so good. It had a nice local feel to it, even though it is right by the convention center. It’s a typical New Orleanian place, on a corner with the door on a diagonal, narrow and dark, and offering delicious traditional stuff. Like fried oyster po boys.
The second time I went there* I ate at the bar. The cook came up, put that bag down and told Melinda-the-bartender** (and Melinda-the-photographer overheard), “Bill’s lunch is ready.” Sure enough, a couple of minutes later, Bill walked in to claim it. The other Melinda seemed happy to see him, like he’d been there even more often than I had.
The Corporation
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.23.2018
*I usually don’t repeat restaurants when I am on a trip.
**Yes, another Melinda. That doesn’t happen very often.
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