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French Quarter Groove   2 comments

Busy Night In The French Quarter — Image by kenne

French Quarter Groove

Chrome and rum in the humid air,
engines hum like lazy bass.

People line up for sound and spice,
talkin’ sweet, sweatin’ slow,
while a horn down the block
slides into the night—

and the whole street
starts to sway.

— kenne

 

Posted December 6, 2025 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, New Orleans, Photography, Poetry

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New Orleans Showcase Of Old Dreams   Leave a comment

Antique Store Window in New Orleans — Image by kenne

The Antique Showcase
In the Mode of Shel Silerstein

It’s not a door or window, no—
it doesn’t creak or swing or glow.

It’s just a box with glassy face,
that holds old dreams in one small place.

A trumpet, hat, a porcelain cat—
things that whisper, “Remember that?”

And though it stands so still, so sly—
I swear those antiques wink as you walk by.

 

Posted December 3, 2025 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, New Orleans, Photography, Poetry

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New Orleans Girl   2 comments

Joy In A Jackson Square Restaurant for Lunch — Image by kenne

After-hours joints have closed
The music has faded away,
Even the horn player
In front of the cathedral.

A new world takes over,
The night people lost in the fog
As if hiding from the light
And the people of the dawn.

In Jackson Square, the show goes on
With the new day, a new act
Enters from stage left and right,
Carrying their daily wares.

This ritual, as old as the city,
Played out as people walk by,
Only briefly noticing a passing soul,
Neither greeting the other.

Protected by the levee
On the edge of the big muddy
Visitors wait for the man with the key
To open the Place d’Armes gates.

Entering the historical Jackson Park
Gazing on “Old Hickory,”
Leading the 1815 charge
In the Battle of New Orleans.

For many morning walkers
Passing through the square,
It is only a route to Café Dumonde
For chicory coffee and beignets.

— kenne

Posted January 29, 2025 by kenneturner in Black & White Photography, Capturing the Moment, Information, Jackson Square, Joy, New Orleans, Poetry

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New Orleans French Quarter   5 comments

New Orleans French Quarter — Photo-Artistry by kenne

French Quarter mornings
Where the sun
Casts long shadows
Giving personality
To the sidewalks.

— kenne

Posted September 3, 2024 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, New Orleans, Photo-Artistry

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Decator Street Art   Leave a comment

Decatur Street In New Orleans (12/26/07) — Photo-Artistry by kenne

The above is one of many photo-artistry creations from a photo first created in December 2007 from the photo below.

 

I use Photoshop

To transform images to art

Pleasing to the eye.

— kenne

Posted August 28, 2024 by kenneturner in Art, Capturing the Moment, Information, New Orleans, Photo-Artistry, Photography, Poetry

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Corner Store Window, French Quarter   2 comments

Corner Store Window, French Quarter — Image by kenne

I love New York, San Francisco, and so many other places.
But there’s no place like New Orleans. It’s got the best food.
It’s got the best music. It’s got the best people.
It’s got the most things to do
When you are in love.

 

 

Posted August 22, 2024 by kenneturner in Black & White Photography, Capturing the Moment, Information, New Orleans, Photography

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Morning Awakening   3 comments

Morning Awakening In New Orleans — Image by kenne

We are approaching sleep: the chestnut blossoms in the mind
Mingle with thoughts of pain
And the long roots of barley, bitterness
As of the oak roots staining the water dark
In Louisiana, the wet streets soaked with rain
And sodden blossoms; out of this
We have come, a tunnel softly hurtling into darkness.

— from Awakening by Robert Bly

Posted March 24, 2024 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Existential Moment, Information, New Orleans, Photography, Robert Bly

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New Orleans — Street Intensity   Leave a comment

New Orleans — Street Intensity — Photo-artistry by kenne 

French Quarter morning

Party people still in bed

A great time to jog.

— kenne

Posted December 24, 2023 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Existential Moment, Information, New Orleans, Photo-Artistry, Photography, Poetry

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Decatur Street, New Orleans   Leave a comment

Decatur Street, New Orleans (2007) — Photo-Artistry by kenne

We capture a moment in time

later becoming a variation

of the moment that was — 

the next time, yet another.

— kenne

Posted July 2, 2023 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Existential Moment, Information, New Orleans, Photo-Artistry, Poetry

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Rainy Day In The French Quarter   3 comments

Rainy Day In The French Quarter (2007) — Photo-Artistry by kenne

Walking in the rain 

Outside the Blues Company

In the French Quarter.

— kenne

Posted June 19, 2023 by kenneturner in Information, New Orleans, Photo-Artistry, Poetry

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Yesterdays   2 comments

Yesterdays, New Orleans December 2007 — Collage by kenne

New Orleans days

Our favorite getaway

Living in Houston.

— kenne

Posted February 5, 2023 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, New Orleans, Photography, Poetry

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Three Doors   Leave a comment

Tucson, San Antonio, and New Orleans —  Photo-Artistry by kenne

"And hear the sounds he knew of yore,
Old shufflings on the sanded floor,
Old knuckles tapping at the door? 

"Yet still before him as he flies
One pallid form shall ever rise,
And, bodying forth in glassy eyes 

"The vision of a vanished good,
Low peering through the tangled wood,
Shall freeze the current of his blood." 

-- from The Three Voices by lewis Carroll


Posted November 27, 2022 by kenneturner in Information, New Orleans, Photo-Artistry, Poetry, San Antonio, Tucson

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Rainy Night In New Orleans   Leave a comment

Rainy Night In New Orleans (12/26/07) — Image by kenne

“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves:

the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”

— Ivan Illich

Posted December 17, 2021 by kenneturner in Black & White Photography, Capturing the Moment, Existential Moment, Information, New Orleans, Quote

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Decatur Street   8 comments

In December of 2007 I took this picture of a building on Decatur Street in New Orleans.
Over the years I have created several photo-art pieces from the original image. Here are just a few.

— kenne

Posted March 25, 2021 by kenneturner in Information, New Orleans, Photo-Artistry, Photography

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Christmas Past: Holidays In New Orleans   2 comments

Royale Street in New Orleans (December 2014) — Image by kenne

For years, after celebrating Christmas with family and friends,
Joy and I would go to one of our favorite ‘getaways,’ New Orleans.

Big Easy dreaming
Strolling through the French Quarter
Existential being.

— kenne

Posted December 26, 2020 by kenneturner in Christmas, Houston, Information, New Orleans

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