New Orleans city park, getting lost in the live oaks.
Before moving to Athens, I lived in New Orleans for 6 years. My absolute favorite place in the whole city was City Park. A vast area covered in old live oaks dressed in Spanish moss. It was a truly enchanting place. Here is a selection of pictures I took throughout the years on 3 different cameras (a Canon 5D digital SLR, a 35mm Minolta X-700 film camera, and my trusty Iphone). I hope they will help transport you to this beautiful place!
The second photo is also my entry in the mundane as art competition. This weeks theme is moss and lichen :)
Shot with a Canon 5D mark I
Shot with a Canon 5D mark I
Shot with a Minolta X-700 35mm
Shot with an Iphone 6
Shot with a Canon 5D mark I
Shot with an Minolta X-700 35mm
Shot with a Canon 5D mark I
Shot with an Minolta X-700 35mm
Shot with an Minolta X-700 35mm
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These are amazing photos, they have a sort of beautiful sadness. That is how I sort of think of New Orleans, though I have never been. Like it is a city that has seen such tragedy but soldiers on in spite of hardship.
I love statuary and parks. When I was in London, I walked in Hyde Park as much as possible. There is something about the vast green spaces filled with ponds and statues and picnic goers in the center of a city that has an 'other worldy' or 'another time' quality to it.
Thank you! And there definitely is a beautiful sadness to New Orleans, you can definitely feel it in City Park. On the other hand though there is also a vibrant and upbeat vibe in parts of the city with costumes, art, music, and parades happening constantly. Its a very unique place!
And I agree about parks, I love the escape to nature that large parks provide. Hyde Park is indeed beautiful, Golden Gate park in San Francisco is another one of my favorites :)
Wonderful shots!! Well done!
Thank you so much!
I love the iphone shot of the stump, great depth!
that one was actually done with my fancy digital camera, sorry I just realized the captions were kind of confusing! going to try to fix it now :)
I wish my iphone could shoot like that!
Digging the photos. Been once. Stayed in between Frenchmen Street and Bourbon Street. Definitely must visit again for more charbroiled oysters. Woooo!