[NCB]

I brought my camera into the city last weekend for the French Quarter Fest, and came back with quite a few photos from around the Quarter and the CBD. Hope you enjoy!

The first photos were taken in the CBD, from there we'll go throughout the Quarter, back through the CBD, and eventually down to the riverfront.

And now for the photos(it may take awhile to load)...


Some of the major hotels between the lower portions of Canal and Poydras
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Downtown Density
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Waldenberg Riverfront Park
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Vieux Carre
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Shops at Canal Place, an upscale downtown mall
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One Canal Place
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And now into the Quarter...

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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, founder of New Orleans
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Shops along Decatur Street
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Louisiana Supreme Court
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Looking back down Chartres Street
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Looking up Chartres
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Chartres in front of the Saint Louis Cathedral
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Art along the Jackson Square fence
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Anti-fence jumping mechanism :lol:
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Lafitte's Blacksmith Bar, built in 1772
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Bourbon Street
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New Orleans Musical Legends Park
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And now we cross Canal Street into the CBD...


The Ritz-Carlton on Canal
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Saint Charles Avenue
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One Shell Square, the tallest building in Louisiana(will be topped by Trump N.O. in a few years)
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Hyatt Regency, still being repaired and bares scars of Katrina's winds
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First Bank and Trust Tower
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Palm-lined sidewalk beside Harrah's Casino on Poydras Street
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And finally, the riverfront...

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That's it! Sorry about the large amount of photos, but I hope you enjoyed them!

[DenverDane]

Beautiful and very colorful pictures! Great job! It's been a long time since I've been down there. It looks like it's recovering well.

[FREKI]

Nice pics!

[Boris]

Beautiful photography.

[chris]

WOW N.O. looks really pretty. I hope they're recovering nicely from Hurricane Katrina.

[Sacto]

Great photos!

[Evergrey]

fantastic photos of a fascinating city

[landofoz]

thanks for the memories! I'm a southern transplant from NO...now living in Boston... ho hum, yawn.....B-O-R-I-N-G! Brings back lots of memories, ones that I would never get away with in the "Puritan State that is Massachusetts"!! Lived there for 12 years, uptown. Good to see that parts of the city (FQ) are still thriving. The city has the most character of any I've ever lived in in the US.
thanks!!

[alon504]

Nice job....you show it like it is...I see it daily.

[LouisianaRush]

Great job man. Makes me home sick.

[Xing]

God damn mangs. New Orleans... I hope to god the city comes back, and surpasses where it was before that fucking Hurricane.

[alon504]

God damn mangs. New Orleans... I hope to god the city comes back, and surpasses where it was before that fucking Hurricane.

It is...I'm watching it...but, as the saying goes down here..."Katrina has taught me patience." We all feel this way. The rest of the country needs to have patience. We are in virgin territory. Unless I'm mistaken, I don't recall ever hearing about 250,000 urban homes being flooded to the ceiling. It takes time to clean this crap up, but we are making serious headway. I'm dead serious. Come check it out. I just moved into a recovery area (Mid-City) and I love it. Everybody is coming back in this neighborhood. I saw 4 U-Hauls just on my street this past Saturday. They are moving in now....

[Buckeye Native 001]

Need to go to New Orleans. Someday! :tup:

[IntotheWest]

Excellent pictures...very colourful, and definitely unique! Great perspective in your shots too!

[LSyd]

i can't wait to get back there.

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[flar]

Thanks for the nice photos. This is the time of year I once visited New Orleans.

[STLgasm]

A true original.

[KevinFromTexas]

Gorgeous.

[alon504]

Not high quality, but, I thought this was a cool pic taken today (05/14/2007) of an afternoon storm in New Orleans:

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[the dude]

laissez les bon temps roulez!

[ColDayMan]

Wow.

[Jeeper]

Best photo set I've seen in a while.

[Kingofthehill]

Very good.