A few images from a visit to New Orleans at the beginning of June 2104. I will be splitting these into two posts with the first of color images and the second with black and white.
When I walked out from the cool hotel lobby onto the street at 7am, the humidity was already high and I began to sweat immediately. We stayed just a few blocks from the famous Bourbon Street which offered a great experience of seeing the streets deserted in the morning and full of life at night. The morning walk through the wet streets revealed the architecture and charm that is all lost at night. The night offered among the best venues for people watching. In another way, the morning streets of New Orleans resemble a city nursing its hangover while the night is the next round of going at it all over again.
Quick note on my post-processing: I develop my images to best reflect the sense of being there. A particular impression lingers in memory which I will recapture using various post-processing methods. With that said however, sometimes the moment is pure and the image only requires nothing more than resizing for the media it will be shown on. But camera, digital or analog, are tools for vision and each is unique to the person holding one.
