Archive for the ‘New Orleans’ Tag
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
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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.
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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
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New Orleans French Quarter — Photo-Artistry by kenne
French Quarter mornings
Where the sun
Casts long shadows
Giving personality
To the sidewalks.
— kenne
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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
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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.
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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
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New Orleans — Street Intensity — Photo-artistry by kenne
French Quarter morning
Party people still in bed
A great time to jog.
— kenne
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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
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Rainy Day In The French Quarter (2007) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Walking in the rain
Outside the Blues Company
In the French Quarter.
— kenne
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Yesterdays, New Orleans December 2007 — Collage by kenne
New Orleans days
Our favorite getaway
Living in Houston.
— kenne
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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
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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
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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
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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
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