New Orleans Bound

[oftheherd]

You're going to love the Cafe Du Monde, then!!! There coffee & beignets are wonderful! If I lived in the Big Easy I'd be there every morning for breakfast. Probably weigh 400lbs, but at least I'd be happy! 😀

Cafe Du Monde is good. I buy it sometimes as a substiture for real Vietnamese coffee, or to mix with Vietnames coffee. Many Vietnamese drink it when they can't get real Vietnames coffee. And it is good. I don't mean to take anything away from it. It is just that I prefer the real thing. Mixed with sweetener and sweetened condensed milk; ambrosia.

Unfortunately, with my diabetes, I can only use Nutrasweet and sometimes half and half. 🙁 (Actually I am quite used to that and still enjoy)

 

[titrisol]

oftheherd... use Splenda, tastes much better and you can actually do condensed milk with it

 

[pshinkaw]

Someone mentioned Cafe Du Monde? Been many years since I've been there. Many more years since I took any photos there.

These were done with an Agfa Karat 36, 50/2.8 Solinar, Plus-X Pan. Tried to do some scratch and dust removal in Photoshop Lite.

-Paul

 

[L.A.Moore]

http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~photo/Pike.html

Check this out. Posted by another photographer.

 

[ray_g]

On Royal, parallel to Bourbon St, be careful taking photos of a singing duo - a man and his grandfather usually dressed in coveralls. If you even raise your camera to your eye, he will stop singing and YELL at you to drop money in his can for you photo. A real boon to the local tourist industry, I'm sure.

I saw this photo of the act I was referring to:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3646469

 

[ray_g]

And the gallery I mentioned is Photo Works, on Chartres St.

Here's one from Cafe Du Monde🙂

 

[ChadHahn]

I haven't read all the replies but...

I haven't read all the replies but...

Get out of the quarter. Take a trolley ride up to Audobon park. Walk down Carrollton to the levee and eat at Cooter Browns a college hang out with 100 beers on tap and really incredible po-boys. There are also some nice cemetarys at the end of the trolley line.

 

[djon]

The Crescent City has a bunch of great, disorderly museums.

The whole town is paved with vomited jello (don't let that dissuade you).

It's a beautiful, mouldering city on the one hand ...and on the other it's sleezy, tacky, and foul. This is why you're not going to Indianapolis, right?

Take a streetcar (remember "Desire"?) to the Garden District and walk. Beautiful, quiet, old.

What about music? At least take in Preservation Hall! Put up with any necessary inconvenience and long lines to attend.

Staying in the French Quarter anywhere will give you the worst night's sleep you've ever experienced. Gay techno discos at 500db, still humping at 3AM, mobs of their patrons staggering to their cars, shreiking in the streets at 4AM.

 

[RJBender]

October 8 - 14, Ann-Marie and I will be in New Orleans.

* What are the 'must sees' in the French Quarter?

* Photo opportunities?

Bill,
Everyone associates revelry with the French Quarter. If you get up before dawn and hit the streets with your tripod while there's still a some fog in the air it's actually very tranquil. Check out Jackson Square early in the morning. Some of the old cemeteries would be interesting to explore with a wide angle on an overcast day. It's been 22 years since I stayed in the quarter. Hopefully, my information is not too outdated.
There's some good information on Yahoo:
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelgui...ions+&+Sightseeing-new_orleans_things_to_do-i

R.J.

 

[RJBender]

http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~photo/Pike.html

Check this out. Posted by another photographer.

New Orleans Cemeteries: St. Louis #1 best, but can be very dangerous, don't go alone!! A good time is when "Haunted New Orleans" runs a tour group by, so there are lots of people around. Watch out for gangs of pre-teens checking out your hardware. St. Louis #2 is considered too dangerous to visit even in groups without an armed guard, I know one local photographer who only visits this one with an armed rent a cop!. I don't want to sound too paranoid, but this is a very bad part of town.

I guess my information is outdated.

R.J.

 

[Paul T.]

"On Royal, parallel to Bourbon St, be careful taking photos of a singing duo - a man and his grandfather usually dressed in coveralls. If you even raise your camera to your eye, he will stop singing and YELL at you to drop money in his can for you photo.."

Well, the guy has to make a living, maybe a dollar in the can is worth it if you get a decent photo? I did a shoot in New Orleans for a music magazine - bringing street musicians a cold Coke on a hot day ensures you can linger and nail the shot, maybe makes you a friend, and helps out guys who often work very hard for their money.

WE did a shoot out in the cemeteries, and also in a Victorian housing project - great locations, but pretty raw.

 

[glenbarn]

I find that a beautiful shot in the Quarter is looking up Pirate's Alley to Royal St.

Decatur St. below Jackson Square will provide architecture and street drama.
(Try not to become part of the street drama)

Lots of interesting folks around the square.

 

[ChadHahn]

St. Louis #2 is considered too dangerous to visit even in groups without an armed guard, I know one local photographer who only visits this one with an armed rent a cop!. I don't want to sound too paranoid, but this is a very bad part of town.

I guess my information is outdated.

R.J.

I went to Marie Laveaux's tomb in St. Louis #2. Parked the car down the block, walked in with Nikon around my neck and took pictures unaccosted. I think if you don't look like a victim, most times you won't be a victim. How ever, if you do go to take pictures, take a wide angle lens. The walkways are narrow.

Chad

 

[ray_g]

"On Royal, parallel to Bourbon St, be careful taking photos of a singing duo - a man and his grandfather usually dressed in coveralls. If you even raise your camera to your eye, he will stop singing and YELL at you to drop money in his can for you photo.."

Well, the guy has to make a living, maybe a dollar in the can is worth it if you get a decent photo? I did a shoot in New Orleans for a music magazine - bringing street musicians a cold Coke on a hot day ensures you can linger and nail the shot, maybe makes you a friend, and helps out guys who often work very hard for their money.

WE did a shoot out in the cemeteries, and also in a Victorian housing project - great locations, but pretty raw.

I could not agree with you more, Paul. It is not giving the money that I am referring to, but the rudeness.

 

[Byuphoto]

How ever, if you do go to take pictures, take a wide angle lens.

And a gun.Preferably a big 1911 A1 Colt

 

[RJBender]

I went to Marie Laveaux's tomb in St. Louis #2. Parked the car down the block, walked in with Nikon around my neck and took pictures unaccosted. I think if you don't look like a victim, most times you won't be a victim. How ever, if you do go to take pictures, take a wide angle lens. The walkways are narrow.

Chad

I was quoting Stan Strembicki, Professor of Photography and Jeff Pike, Dean of the School of Art at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~photo/Pike.html

R.J.

 

[ChadHahn]

I've often found that if you act like avictim then you'll become a victim. I've been in places where people say, "If you go there, you'll die in a thousand terrible ways." Nothing has ever happened. Maybe it's God looking after the foolish or perhaps I'm aware and don't act like I'm scared and don't belong.


Just my two cents worth 🙂

 

[RJBender]

I've often found that if you act like avictim then you'll become a victim. I've been in places where people say, "If you go there, you'll die in a thousand terrible ways." Nothing has ever happened. Maybe it's God looking after the foolish or perhaps I'm aware and don't act like I'm scared and don't belong.


Just my two cents worth 🙂

Chad, you're right. Attitude does have a lot to do with whether or not you become a victim. If you're working in a confined space, a few hundred feet from your car, the situation becomes riskier. Just my 2¢ worth.

This is from the Experience New Orleans website,
http://www.experienceneworleans.com/deadcity.html
I'm sure they would like you to patronize "Cukie's" or Gray Line. LOL

R.J.

Experience New Orleans :
"The older and more dilapidated cemeteries are St. Louis No. 1, 2 and 3, located near the French Quarter. The paths are twisted; crumbled corners of tombs jut out; and dead ends add to the eerieness of the area. Pirates, politicians (notice how those two go together?) and voodoo queens are buried in these cities.
Caution: The "Cities of the Dead" are alluring, but dangerous. Don't go there alone-- travel with a group or arrange to attend a tour. The narrow paths and tombs offer concealment for muggers."

 

[Natalia]

she showed up a month back and said that she is concentrating on shooting pictures rather than hanging out online.. good for her

Bill, you should sign up for one of the many 'ghost tours'.. but don't hang out in the cemetary unless there are a lot of people around.. I hear it's a favorite hangout for undesirables

Pitcha-takin' is going great, but I do come once a day just to check on you guys 🙂 I got a small gallery of N.O. Bill can look at ( http://www.pbase.com/natalia/no)

There are also a lot of Plantations my husband and I enjoy visiting. Oak Alley is the best IMHO (http://oakalleyplantation.com/) The best time to photograph those magnificent trees is in the late afternoon when the brances create long intertwining shaddows on the ground...shoot from the entrance gate. If I remember more I'll post. Bill, you gonna have lots of fun.

 

[ChadHahn]

Chad, you're right. Attitude does have a lot to do with whether or not you become a victim. If you're working in a confined space, a few hundred feet from your car, the situation becomes riskier. Just my 2¢ worth.
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How dare you introduce logic into the proceedings!

Chad