World Thru A Camera Lens

Last picture from New Orleans. This was taken on one of my early morning excursions through the French Quarter. The crescent moon was just visible over this building, and the sky was a deep blue shade. DIdn’t think it would come out, but I was pleasantly surprised.

One of the last of my pictures from New Orleans. The Tennesse Williams play, A Streetcar Named Desire, was set in New Orleans. According to Wikipedia, there was a Desire Line that ran from 1920 to 1948. It wound down Bourbon Street, through the French Quarter, up Desire, and back around to Canal. The picture above is on Canal Street and is one of the cars on the two remaining streetcar lines.

I had heard several years ago that New Orleans had a particular style of home called a shotgun house. It meant that the house was pretty small,  designed with no halls and all the doors in the house lined up so that a breeze could blow straight through the house like a shotgun blast. In the heat and humidity of the summer, that would be a definite plus.

The picture above illustrates the front door of a shotgun style home. Its on one of the side streets in the French Quarter, near Bourbon street.

One of the most famous landmarks in New Orleans is the statue of Andrew Jackson in Jackson Square with the New Orleans cathedral as a backdrop. There isn’t much that hasn’t been done photgraphically to get a new take on this iconic scene, but I tried! I took pictures in the early morning, from various angles during the day, at night with the lights of Bourbon Street which is several blocks behind the cathedral lightening the sky. But I came back to this classic version.

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