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Confederacy
For some reason, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia has a large monument here in this cemetery in New Orleans.
I am not going to get drawn into the argument about tearing down (or not) monuments to various “heroes” of the Confederacy. Nope. I won’t.
All I am doing here is recording the way the light is coming in from the back of this monument. And the way the many of the names have worn away. And the way those two Confederate flags sure do look new, in spite of the fact that there is a heavy, locked gate across the entrance to the memorial.
Metairie Cemetery
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.24.2018
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
