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.