New Orleans! (part one)

Wow, I am absolutely horrible at keeping up with this, but to be honest, since moving to the woods, I haven’t found a lot of inspiration for my photography. Sure, nature is beautiful and I love living here, but it’s not what inspires me creatively. So expect these posts to be infrequent (however, hopefully not every-three-years infrequent, lol).

I took a trip earlier this month to New Orleans for Academic Internal Medicine Week, where I presented ABIM’s policies to an audience of program coordinators and administrators. Last year’s meeting was in Columbus, which was… nice… but wow, how lucky that this year’s meeting took place in one of my favorite cities in the world! Here are the first 20 of my favorite photos from the trip. I’ll post the other 20 in a second blog post and will also post some of them in my New Orleans gallery in the Travel section of the website. All photos were taken with a Fuji XPro2 with a 35mm f/1.4 lens.

Just a coupla besties hangin’ out by the French Market.

Music on every corner is the main reason why New Orleans is so appealing to me. These guys, the Slick Skillet Serenaders, were fantastic.

One of many cute houses in the Marigny.

Joseph, the very cool bartender at Bud Rip’s in the Bywater.

The Bywater is full of festive buildings such as this.

I went with two of my colleagues to Perino’s, located just outside Nola in Harvey. We ordered five pounds of crawfish (with corn, sausage, and potatoes), a half-dozen chargrilled oysters, three chargrilled blue crabs, a pound of barbecue shrimp, and three cups of gumbo and ate almost all of it. Delicious.

The chef at Perino’s chargrilling some oysters.

As seen in the Bywater, which is probably my favorite neighborhood. The final day of my stay, I walked from the Irish Channel to the Bywater and took a lot of photos. The next few photos were also taken in the Bywater.

House cat taking a siesta at the Louisiana Music Factory on Frenchmen Street. I visited three incredible record stores on my final day and was overwhelmed by how many records I wanted to buy. I think I only went home with nine, which was showing a LOT of restraint.

French Quarter.

Arts/Warehouse District.

Fern wall outside of Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 (Garden District).

Touchdown Jesus! (St. Louis Cathedral, French Quarter)

Lafayette Cemetery (I believe No. 1?) at night.

My gal Cherie suckin’ down a beer at Vaughan’s, a fantastic dive bar in the Bywater.

Sayulita, Mexico (part three)

Here’s the third and final installment of the Fuji photos. Polaroids to come!

Sayulita, Mexico (part two)

Here’s the second installment of photos from our November trip to Sayulita.

Sayulita, Mexico (part one)

Sayulita, Mexico, is a magical place. It’s saturated with color, lush vegetation, amazing local artists, some of the friendliest people I’ve encountered, and the best margaritas I’ve ever had. I traveled there with my husband and two close friends for seven nights in late November through early December, and I finally just finished editing and narrowing down the abundance of photos I shot to a number I can manageably present.

I recently retired my Canon 5D Mark II, which had been my reliable companion for almost a decade, for a Fuji X-Pro2 (outfitted with the 23mm f/1,4 lens). The Fuji is mirrorless, which presented a pretty significant learning curve since I’ve only ever used an SLR. Thankfully, Sayulita had no shortage of eye-catching scenes, so I got to practice a lot.

This is my first blog post in nearly a decade. The photos I made in Sayulita motivated me to create an entirely new blog through Squarespace, a platform much more well-suited for photo-viewing than Wordpress (I won’t bother linking my old one because all of the photos have since been watermarked with the Photobucket logo—how antiquated!). There will be three installments of Sayulita photos, plus an additional post containing all the Polaroids I shot but have yet to scan. I hope you enjoy the first.