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New Orleans Is Absolutely Beautiful

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On February 3, 2016

In New Orleans, Photography

Let’s go to sleep in Paris/
Wake up in Tokyo/
HAVE A DREAM IN NEW ORLEANS/
Fall in love in Chicago

Those lyrics by Lupe Fiasco in “Paris, Tokyo” bounced around my head as I walked back to my apartment from his concert* at Republic New Orleans this past weekend.

Something caught my eye near the halfway mark and stopped me in my tracks.

I crossed Poydras Street and looked down a desolate St. Charles Avenue.

No less than six hours earlier, revelers packed St. Charles Avenue as krewes rolled down its broken and bumpy asphalt celebrating carnival season. Now it was empty.

Beads and trash covered the street earlier. Now it was spotless.

The afternoon and evening were gorgeous with sunshine. Now a fog and mist rolled in and left an eerie allure around The Big Easy, especially on St. Charles Avenue.

So I took a picture. You can see it in the featured image up top.

There was something haunting, but indescribably beautiful about that scene.

New Orleans, in itself, is a beautiful city. I’ve tried to capture some of it.

https://twitter.com/tylermayforth/status/691761833066283010

Speaking of carnival season, I’ll try to have a post recapping my first Mardi Gras next week. Just like the city, the USTFCCCA shuts down on Tuesday for the big day.

* I thought Lupe Fiasco put on a heck of a show. It started slower than I would have liked, mainly because of his song choices, but by the end everybody got involved. It worried me that he didn’t incorporate the crowd at first, yet by the end he had us eating out of the palm of his hand as “Lu-pe! Lu-pe! Lu-pe!” chants rained down.

Sky Photography: There Are 1,000 Words Up There

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On August 22, 2015

In Photography

For some reason — and I can’t name it — I always have been fascinated with the sky.

I never wanted to be a pilot to soar through the clouds or a meteorologist to know what was going on up there, but something about it called me. It’s just one of those things that you always think about, but you never understand you’re obsession.

Well, I wouldn’t call it an obsession, but I love taking pictures of awesome cloud formations as well as Picassoesque sunsets canvasing the sky before nightfall.

Up top is a picture I took during my family vacation in Savannah. Here are other examples of my wonderful — but rather simple — photography of the sky.

This view is from my current office building in New Orleans. I was told on the good days, you can see a storm rolling in over Lake Pontchartrain. This was one of them.

Took this one as my dad and I recently traversed the South to get to Louisiana.

Was lucky enough to snag this one outside of my hotel in Metairie, Louisiana.

This one is my favorite. Taken outside of Wednesday night trivia in Athens, Georgia.

If you follow me on Twitter (@tylermayforth), you’ll see me sporadically post these kinds of pictures. I don’t take them every day, but as you can see, when I take them they turn out pretty good. Like I said, there is just something about the sky.

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