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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.
The Expansive Gesture
Wait. What’s happening here? There seem to be…people…in the shot?
I am going to blame it on a condition I call Conference-induced Ennui, which was creeping up on me after a day and a half attending a professional conference in New Orleans. It was starting to look like a serious case, so on the lunch break, I decided it was time for some drastic action. In this case the drastic action involved, well, spying on those two women.
Maybe the woman on the right was trying to stretch her way through her own case of Conference-induced Ennui. But whatever she was doing, it was interesting enough for me to go way out on my photographic limb and make a photo of her.
And then, it was back to sessions. Stuff like “Essential Techniques for Successful Public Engagement” and “Ethics Cases of the Year” and “Denver’s Blueprint for an Inclusive City.” See what I mean about the ennui? You’re feeling a little lethargic just from reading that sentence, aren’t you?
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.22.2018
One Day | One Image 