New Orleans Day 7: Southwest Failure

This is the final collection of images from my trip to New Orleans. There really shouldn’t have been that many. I got up early and went for a brief walk cause there was this Little Debbie mural I saw that I wanted to photograph. I can’t remember exactly when our flight was supposed to leave, but when Tony and I were about to leave for the airport, we got a notification from Southwest that our flight had been delayed for 2 hours. This meant that we had an extra 2 hours before we went to the airport. This gave me time to make one last ditch effort to get inside the gates of famous Saint Louis Cemetery #1.

But it wasn’t to be. I made the trek over to the cemetery, but they wouldn’t let you in without going on the tour. Which I was fine paying for, but they wouldn’t let you leave the tour early and I didn’t have time to take the whole tour. So I settled for trying to take a few pictures over the wall. It wasn’t great.

The kicker was that by the time I got back to the room and Tony and I made it to the airport we got a new message from Southwest. This time it said that our flight was on time. Meaning, we had just left our flight.

A person with keen observational skills might notice some of the pictures taken before I hit the cemetery are pretty lousy with digital noise. I have many failings as a photographer, but one of the worst is on occasion I will bump my ISO to an extremely high setting on accident and then not notice it until it is too late. I did that again on many of these pictures. They are shot with an ISO of 20,000. But you know, sometimes that is okay. It can lend a gritty look to the images that can really work well for street photography submissions.

I actually got through all the Big Meeting images before I leave for this year’s Big Meeting! Woohoo me! Not sure what I will share next Friday. Probably start on the sharing of my Iowa State Fair pictures.