We Left A Little Soul In New Orleans

I like Reckless Kelly. I like Reckless Kelly a lot. Not so much in the way that I’m infatuated with them, no, not that extreme, but they are something unique in a somewhat becomingly saturated music industry in Texas. They have a song called “God Foresaken Town,” a song about New Orleans, that is fantastically coordinated and, again, a break from the musical norm in their genre, in true Reckless Kelly form.

I was looking through some images that I took on a recent trip to New Orleans with my own band. We had a gig at the top of the World Trade Center, and it was a quick, but long trip! We had a few hours one day to wander around and see the city in the daytime. Fortunately, it was overcast, so it wouldn’t be a total loss photographically, but in the same since, and maybe because I think a little old school about light, it wasn’t light that I consider stunning. I did find a great deal of fun in some of the photographs, especially when I was experimenting with many of the newer controls in Lightroom 2.

Of course, I shoot for integrity in mind, but it is always fun to experiment a little. The majority of my work is sent to clients in the form of Raw files or exported from original formats. However, experimentation has been a mode of work for photographers for years, since the idea of creating the first exposure to implementing multiple artificial lights to “create” an environment to working in digital applications in a digital world!

You might expect to see several images of the famous Bourbon Street. This is really the only image I took, mainly due to time, and due to the fact that much of Bourbon comes alive at night, and I really didn’t want to drag out the cameras for one night out. I wouldn’t pass up an assignment that way though. That street is the definition of unique!

While the trip to New Orleans was exhausting to say the least, it was indeed epic to visit a city affected by such a historically disastrous event. The people truly make that city what it is, and I couldn’t believe how kind and helpful all the native New Orleans were. Indeed, the culture of the city is unique, inviting, and memorable! Not to forget, the food was just like I expected: the same as the culture!