Fat Tuesday Evening in the French Quarter

Flambeaux of the Orpheus parade

Mid-City parade, Mardi Gras 2020

Marching Bands of Mardi Gras-Bacchus parade 2020

Warren Easton H.S. my favorite NOLA High School band!

Pre-Iris parade; Mardi Gras 2020

Looking for a different point of view this year, I went to the line up of the Iris parade.

Muses parade

This year Muses got a tough deal, Thursday night was considered too windy to parade in so the parade was moved and they had to parade with only three of their marching unites. It was odd to see this parade running so early in the evening while the sun was still out.

My friend Aimee with the Rolling Elvi

Flambeaux in the sunshine

Hermes parade, Mardi Gras 2020

With plenty of time on my hands and lots of paper in the inventory, here are some selections from the Hermes parade this year.

Maurepas WSA

This is becoming one of my regular go to places when visiting New Orleans. It's a short nature trail that leads right into the swamp landscape and the trail is pretty dry but sometimes a little soggy. These were all taken with my Fuji Xpro2 and the ACROS mode for black and white conversions.

Algiers point

the Wednesday after Mardi Gras, Aimee and I took a relaxing trip over to the West Bank and Algiers Point, a place we've both put off photographing for a while.

As indicated in the photos, the river was very high.

First shoot in the main studio for 2020

 I like to start any shooting season out at the studio with a session with my "senior muse" Carol. We've worked together since 1984 and have made lots of work together. 

We did sense however this year with COVID that it was going to be different.