New Orleans Photography Now Available as Collages!
As seen above, collages now available at http://www.nolaPIC.com ! Choose between 5″ x 7″, 8″ X 8″ or 16″ X 20″ size and different layouts! You pick the images to add to the layout chosen! (click one one image, click “BUY” scroll down to the product list until you see at the bottom the collages, choose you collage size, pick the images and drag them into the layout and order the print!) You can add to the same collage pictures from ANY of my online galleries. http://www.nolaPIC.com
Louisiana Swamp Photography
The depth and richness of photographic subjects found in Louisiana are well beyond what you might just encounter on a day to day basis in the French Quarter. I have to admit it, lately I have been shooting mostly urban scenery myself, but shooting in the swamps and bayous is something that one must absolutely experience! Here are just a few shots I have taken, thanks to Scott, a Friend photographer . These pictures of course do not do justice, you can’t hear how quite and peaceful this place is, or see the wildlife all around you, in the sky or in the water. It is simply beautiful and breathtaking to witness nature at its best…
If you would like to see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com where you can order photo prints (even framed), and canvas gallery wraps online.
If you would like to see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com where you can order photo prints (even framed), and canvas gallery wraps online.
St Louis Cathedral Photography
I think I can honestly say I have closed the chapter on shooting the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter of New Orleans…LOL, Just kidding of course! But these are a few of my best, all taken in a very cold day before sunrise. They are available as color or black and white fine art prints; by clicking each image you will be taken to my other site nolaPIC.com where you can order prints. Thanks!
If you would like to see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com where you can order photo prints (even framed), and canvas gallery wraps online.
If you would like to see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com where you can order photo prints (even framed), and canvas gallery wraps online.
If you would like to see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com where you can order photo prints (even framed), and canvas gallery wraps online.
What the fog!
Just about when I was getting worried and bored with that everyday’s bright light that we have 90% of the time down here in New Orleans, (this year we didn’t have much fog, cold or rain)…Here comes a killer week, full of thick fog followed by a very cold short rainy spell with that mist that’s just perfect for shooting around the French Quarter. Yay! I kept on going and got some killer photographs in New Orleans and in the swamps! I will post the images taken in the swamps on my next post…
If you would like to see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com where you can order photo prints (even framed), and canvas gallery wraps online.
If you would like to see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com where you can order photo prints (even framed), and canvas gallery wraps online.
If you would like to see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com where you can order photo prints (even framed), and canvas gallery wraps online.
The Cutting Season and The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow book covers. Two novels published by HarperCollins Publishers
I ‘am excited to announce that this (killer) shot of mine is being used on the cover of the novel “The Cutting Season” by Attica Locke! Above is my picture which is available as a fine art photo or canvas by clicking on it you will be taken to my other website http://www.nolaPIC.com (scroll down to see the other book cover of the second book published by HarperCollins “The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow”.
“Release Date: September 18, 2012 – HarperCollins
In Black Water Rising, Attica Locke delivered one of the most stunning and sure-handed fiction debuts in recent memory, garnering effusive critical praise, several award nominations, and passionate reader response. Now Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a riveting thriller that intertwines two murders separated across more than a century.
Caren Gray manages Belle Vie, a sprawling antebellum plantation that sits between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where the past and the present coexist uneasily. The estate’s owners have turned the place into an eerie tourist attraction, complete with full-dress re-enactments and carefully restored slave quarters. Outside the gates, a corporation with ambitious plans has been busy snapping up land from struggling families who have been growing sugar cane for generations, and now replacing local employees with illegal laborers. Tensions mount when the body of a female migrant worker is found in a shallow grave on the edge of the property, her throat cut clean.
As the investigation gets under way, the list of suspects grows. But when fresh evidence comes to light and the sheriff’s department zeros in on a person of interest, Caren has a bad feeling that the police are chasing the wrong leads. Putting herself at risk, she ventures into dangerous territory as she unearths startling new facts about a very old mystery—the long-ago disappearance of a former slave—that has unsettling ties to the current murder. In pursuit of the truth about Belle Vie’s history and her own, Caren discovers secrets about both cases—ones that an increasingly desperate killer will stop at nothing to keep buried.
Taut, hauntingly resonant, and beautifully written, The Cutting Season is at once a thoughtful meditation on how America reckons its past with its future, and a high-octane page-turner that unfolds with tremendous skill and vision. With her rare gift for depicting human nature in all its complexities, Attica Locke demonstrates once again that she is “destined for literary stardom” (Dallas Morning News).“
This above is another image of mine ( taken on Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans ) which I have recently licensed to HarperCollins Publishers for the book cover of the novel by Rita Leganski ” The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow” – A lyrical debut novel set in historic New Orleans that follows a mute boy whose special gift reveals family secrets and forgotten voodoo lore. Available on Amazon as a Paperback or kindle edition on February 26, 2013. The novel is available for Pre-orders now. To purchase the photo as a fine art print, please click it and you will be taken to my other website http://www/nolaPIC.com
French Quarter Prints available at the French Quarter
If you are shopping for some of the best photos of the French Quarter in New Orleans, you must see these photos! It sounds like paid advertisement I know, but trust me, you are going to love them as well! These are some of my best photos of the French Quarter taken in the past 2 years and they are available at Royal Gallery in New Orleans.
The photographs are signed by Alfonso “Pompo” Bresciani and printed on 12″x18″ paper with a white border, for handling and matting. Since I just brought them there they may not even be framed and/or shown at all yet, so you gonna have to ask for them if you go right away
The Gallery is located in the French Quarter of New Orleans, on Toulouse next to Royal Street.
Royal Gallery
621 Toulouse St.,
New Orleans LA 70130
Phone: 504-524-2463
Click the link for a Google map to see the gallery location: http://tinyurl.com/bomyumf
Other canvas Gallery Wraps of my photo works (Giclees) are available at Royal Gallery as well.
If you would like to see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com where you can order photo prints (even framed), and canvas gallery wraps online.
2012 Satchmo Summerfest and Treme Jazz Mass
I’m not gonna shoot this again next year, yeah, this is it. That’s what I say every time!
As we get closer to the Annual Satchmo Summerfest the excitement starts to build up day by day. I start thinking of how unique this is and how can I even think of missing the Jazz Mass, the Treme Brass Band, Yoshio Toyama (known as the Japanase Satchmo) and their live jazz performance at the super packed St. Augustine Church? It’s in the heart of Treme, the birthplace of jazz, It’s a fantastic and “only in New Orleans” experience, there is even a second line from the St. Augustine Church to the Mint where the music festival actually go on…How can I miss it!?!? I guess I’ll just once again and ‘ll take one more shot..:)
Mardi Gras Photography
I have finally found the time to go through and edit all the 2012 Mardi Gras pictures I have shot in New Orleans! Please see some of the best photos below and do not forget that in order to purchase fine art prints you should go to my other photography website http://www.nolaPIC.com or you can click on each image shown here to be taken directly there.
Crew of Rex on Mardi Gras day rolling on Canal Street in New Orleans
Krewe of Pontchartrain on Canal Street
Along parade routes these type of trees are frequently spotted right after Mardi Gras. This is a unique one indeed!
You need to see this at least once in a lifetime. Then get out of there and go somewhere
else, like on Frenchmen Street where a lot of the locals hangs out.
Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street right by the Royal Sonesta
Bourbon Street on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans
Will Ferrell King of Bacchus 2012
Mardi Gras is a very big deal in New Orleans; as everything else that celebrates the joy of living, we take it very seriously down here. The king cakes, the beads, the Mardi Gras Indians, the boobs and drunks on Bourbon St. the parades with their floats come and go with different flavors and colors, year after year with, same route, same days, same Krewes,they are wonderful, yet quite the same each year. There is one thing locals and tourists alike wont forget too soon which draws much anticipation and media attention is the King of Bacchus! Well as you may have heard by now, the 2012 King of Bacchus was Mr. Will Ferrell !
Please click here to purchase prints of Will Ferrell on my other site nolaPIC.com
A beautiful, yet scary oak alley …
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I have been trying to get this shot for quite some time, I don’t just drop by and snap…I have a shot in my mind’s eye and try to conquer it. I have been waking up at 5 am and drove to the spot 4 times, but as always, you cannot plan what nature will do…Besides, humans are always in the way to screw things up too. I met the infamous Murphy there a couple of times. That son of a gun is no good and always in the way! I ended up getting what I wanted I have to say it LOUD:).
I was so happy when I finally got these two shots of this beautiful, yet scary alley of Oak trees !
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St Louis Cathedral in a gumbo of fog, sunshine and clouds…
I don’t ever get tired of shooting the French Quarter in New Orleans, maybe because it’s so European and I feel at home, maybe just because it’s so unique! In the middle of it all, first to catch the sunrise and the fog poured in by the River is the St. Louis Cathedral. I particularly love these new photos I took since the fog is patchy and not ”layered” evenly everywhere. The St. Louis Cathedral is lit by the sun, everything else is in the fog, yet Decatur Street is still in the shade, and the sky is blue with clouds in it too! There is a “whole lot of light going on”, in other words…A gumbo of light 
. Please do not forget to scroll down on this post, there are also a couple of other shots that I LOVE, one of Decatur St. at sunrise and one of the New Orleans Skyline , yep, French Quarter again…
To order fine art prints of the images below please click each one and you will be taken to my other Fine Art Photography site www.nolaPIC.com This blog dos not allow you to order any prints. For licensing feel free to contact me at Canon[at]pompo.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
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To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
French Quarter Photography at Forever New Orleans on Royal Street
Click image to see Google map of store location
I have recently started displaying my work at Forever New Orleans in the heart of the French Quarter! If you are a local, you already know where the place is located at, but if you are visiting, the address is: 700 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70116 . It is very close to Jackson Square and Preservation Hall (corner of St. Peter and Royal St.). If you are shopping for some of the best photos of the French Quarter in New Orleans for yourself or as a gift, you must see these Canvas Gallery Wraps! Sizes range from 20″x 20″ to 10″x 15″ they are stretched on wooden frame and ready to hang. (Signed of course).
To see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography and purchase them online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com .
Fine Art Photography at the New Orleans Hyatt Regency
Five large prints of mine were commissioned by the New Orleans Hyatt Regency Hotel for display in the exibit hall by the lower ballroom, towards the back of the hotel. If you happen to visit New Orleans and/or stay at the newly remodeled (recently re-opened after almost 6 years after Katrina) Hyatt Regency, which is not too far from the Mercedes Benz Superdome my photographs are displayed on either side of the lower ballroom entrance. To get there you will need to go to the third floor of the hotel, walk towards the back, passing the first restaurant to the right and the second to the left ,then take the stairs down to the lower ballroom, the prints are on either side of the entrance to the ballroom. Please have a look and feel free to comment in here anytime to let me know what you think. Your feedback will be very welcome.
Below is another shot taken at the Hyatt Regency , if you’ll click on each (above and below this text), you will be taken on my New Orleans Fine Art Photography fullfillment site ( nolaPIC.com ) where you will be able to order these same pictures or choose among many others I have taken in the past years in New Orleans and in the French Quarter.
The five photos purchased from the Hyatt Regency Hotel are also shown below. Please scroll down and click on each image to see them larger on my site nolaPIC.com where you will be able to order high quality fine art prints of these shots, amone many others.
2011 Satchmo Summerfest
This is the second time that I have attended and shot the Satchmo Jazz Mass at the St. Augustine Church in Treme. The event is part of the annual Satchmo Summerfest which is held every year at the old US Mint on Esplanade Ave. in New Orleans. To be perfectly clear last year I didn’t actually attend “all the way”, since I wasn’t expecting the church to be so crowded so early, I ended up getting there a bit too late to get in, so I was stuck outside waiting for the function to end so I could shoot the second line! As many of you know, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong was a native New Orleanian, and that is the reason why we celebrate his birthday with a Jazz Mass, second lines and music, (lots of it) . To see more pictures from the 2011 Satchmo Summerfest are here.
Getting up “very” early allowed me to position myself close the brass band, on the exact side of the church where I had planned to be on…Actually when I got there, St. Augustine Church was still closed . I’m pretty satisfied with the photos, hard work always pays off!
More pictures from the 2011 Satchmo Summerfest are here
More pictures from the 2011 Satchmo Summerfest are here
St Louis Cathedral and Lucky Dogs Photographs
This image of St Louis Cathedral makes me VERY happy since I waited for quite a long time yesterday to capture this photo. I have seen many shots of St Lous Cathedral, but the light, weather and angle in this photo, makes it very unique, moody and romantic. It was very well worth it to deal with rain and super high humidity yay! It is available as a 10″x 10″ or 20″x 20″ fine art print or as a 20″x20″ giclees (canvas gallery wrap).
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
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If you have read the famous book a “A Confederacy of Dunces” you should already know about these Lucky Dogs carts that are all over the French Quarter selling “gourmet hot dogs”. I tried to eat one once, but since I wasn’t drunk ( I don’t ever drink) it tasted pretty nasty to me. Maybe I forgot the relish , who knows, maybe it is true that people just eat them to soak up some the handgranades they have had . Anyway, getting back to business, this image is available as a fine art print here.
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
Photos of rainy Royal Street & a mix of sun and fog for a change…
I have been so busy lately that I haven’t been able to update this blog of mine as I should have… Among the updates that I like to share :
- I have re-organized www.nolaPIC.com very recently; all the pictures are categorized by subject and theme and they will be easy to find (as they should have been in the first place!).
- “Forever New Orleans” will be showing and selling my best gicless (canvas gallery wraps) size 10″x15″ and 15″x15″ starting on Tuesday July 12, 2011. The charming boutique is located on Royal Street at St. Peters right on the corner across Rouses in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Forever New Orleans PH: 504-586-3536
Finally here are just a few shots that I just did which I really like that needs your attention! Please do keep on checking my site www.nolaPIC.com since that is the place to find the newer images and that’s where you can order prints and giclees from. As I said before I don’t have too much time available to update this blog with the most recent New Orleans Photography as I would like to, and to tell you the truth, I’d rather be shooting !
PS. Do not forget to scroll all the way down on the bottom of this post or you might miss that killer photo of Pirate’s Alley wrapped in that French Quarter fog and Forever New Orleans right below!
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
Dr John at Tipitina’s
One April 20th, 2011, on the one year memorial of the worst man-made enviromental disaster in our nation’s history, coastal residents are coming together to honor the 11 men that died & those that fought to protect our coast. After town hall meetings and debates the musics had to roll at Tipitina’s in the French Quarter. Here below are few of the best shots of Dr. John performing (click on each image to see them larger or to purchase prints on my other site nolaPIC.com).
Maison LeMonnier in the French Quarter of New Orleans
Dr. LeMonnier’s home, on Royal St. in the French Quarter in New Orleans, referred to as “New Orleans’ first skyscraper” which towers three stories high. In the foreground are the elaborate cast-iron gallery railings of LaBranche House. It is one of the most photographed residences in New Orleans. To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
Even More New Orleans Streetcars Photography !
The more pictures of streetcars I take, the more challenging it gets to come up with something unique and killer, however I don’t think I will ever grow tired of shooting them, in particular the line on Canal Street whose vehicles are red, and runs through all kind of interesting backgrounds, traffic lights and bright traffi is my favorite. Chances are that if and when I will somehow get a little bored with the current Canal St. line or the one on St. Charles Avenue (green ones), the new streetcars lines will be up and running on Rampart Street as it was recently announced! Will they be a bright orange, turquoise maybe? Will the new streetcars be completely brand new with air conditioning and HD monitors in them? Plain air conditionion will be just fine …?
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
Never let a good rainy day go 2 waste…(part2)
I finally had the time to post on this blog some of my newest images taken in 2011 in New Orleans (mostly in the French Quarter) and they are all available on my gallery site www.nolaPIC.com . Sadly winter is almost over and the moody and gloomy ligh,t the rain and the deserted streets that I love are becoming a lot more alive and colorful. Please Bob Breck let me have another major cold front (or two!) I have another post lined up with new pictures after this with some really killer streetcars shots taken on Cana Street and after that I’m afraid it will be time for Mardi Gras pictures…I’ll do my best to capture the celebrations I promise!All fine art prints are also available framed and with non glare glass with or without a mat. To see some more of my photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
These pictures below of the Preservation Hall are so far my favorites, best I have ever taken, the light was just perfect and it was rainy and the framing was just right! Yay!
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
New Orleans Canal Street and the CBD at twilight
I have been drooling for a quite awhile now for these types of images and have been wanting to take them facing downward to Canal St. in New Orleans at twilight. Canal Street is very unique, so long and wide, but it is also very hard to shoot unless your are up high, and I mean way up there. These shots here were taken from the top of the World Trade Center building at the foot of Canal Street where the view is just incredible and beyond description; you will be surprised also how strong the northerly winds blows when it gets funneled between the rows of buildings on Canal St.! The images are available in square or rectangular format. Please click each of them to the to my other site where you can view them larger and/or purchase them.
Never let a good rainy day go to waste…
Oh wow it was so worth it, yet again I got some killer shots in the French Quarter during this last winter storm brushing up southeast Louisiana! Although it didn’t bring any of the white powdery stuff that we get to see down here so rarely, it brought once again the magic lights and moods of desolated streets and alleys… all of these photos below are available as fine art prints at www.nolaPIC.com Click any image below to get to the fine art print, where you can view them larger and/or purchase them.
Walter Payton Jr. Celebration and Second Line
Panorama of New Orleans Skyline on Canal Street
Ladies and Gentlemen I’m very glad to announce my latest fine art photography work shot on Canal Street in New Orleans!
Since I have been waiting quite a while (weeks!) to get this photo done I’m very pleased with the results! Not only the magic twilight and angle makes the photo quite unique, but the never seen subject itself is a newer one that I have never seen done here! I got a little soaked and had to be a contortionist to get to shoot this image, but as always, hard work always pays off and as matter of facts I can’t stop staring at it! It is available as an open edition print at nolaPIC.com (my online fullfillment website). This killer New Orleans skyline image features Canal Street with the bright red streetcar we all know or at least have heard of, in the foreground, and the central business district in the background. To see another KILLER panorama (taken from the west bank instead) please click here!!!
