DJP Update 3-8-2011 Mardi Gras ends at midnight! Check out photos & Plan for 2012 Mardi Gras! LAGNIAPPE
It is not too early to plan for Mardi Gras 2012: Tuesday, February 21, 2012.
You have to experience it at least once.
Robin and I go to the French Quarter for the morning and early afternoon on Mardi Gras Day.
Here are some of the sights we saw including the Rex Parade passing on Canal Street. I posted 16 photos at: http://twitpic.com/photos/DJPNEWS
Click on each picture to enlarge and see full scene. Also if you click on “More Photos” at bottom of that page, you will get to 2010 images I posted after clicking through a few pages.
As many of you know, a Tulane Medical School classmate of mine, Dr. Ronnie French, was Rex, King of Carnival in 2007. And previously, the lovely and kind Flora, his wife, was Queen.
LAGNIAPPE: For the photographers among you, I used my Nikon D90 with 18-200 lens and the small Canon S95. Both allow capturing the image in JPEG and RAW at the same time. Digital Negative has the most detail and ideal for Photoshop etc. Exposure errors and more can be corrected with RAW images.
I posted reduced pixel images at the TwitPic site above.
For those not yet photographers, photography is a wonderful hobby. You don’t have to feed it every day and you can store the equipment for long periods. Just remember to remove batteries for long storage. Wonderful to reflect back on family and friend images as the years go by. Memories may fade but the images take us on a time machine journey of joy.
My nature photography is at: http://www.naturesreflectionslimited.com/
Great relaxing hobby that clears the mind of daily stresses and the strange happenings in Congress! Not unlike clearing out the RAM when doing aerobatics in a plane.
Click on the Sample Image Gallery to view some of the photos. My latest adventure in photography is painting with light. You can see a one of those images on the cover of The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society Nov/Dec 2008 issue at: http://www.naturesreflectionslimited.com/pdfs/cover.pdf
The cover of the March/April issue of The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society will have another one of my photos painted with light entitled “Aura 3 Women Fiddlers”. It is is my interpretation of the aura of three women fiddlers I saw in Australia when lecturing there on leadership. Inside the same issue is another light motion image I did of a 50’s Jukebox. Lots of fun.
Will alert you when posted.
Stay well,
Donald
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