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tleach0608 — Beauty of St. Louis
Published: 2010-03-15 17:12:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 593; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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Taken at New Orleans, LA - Jackson SquareThis majestic building is the St. Louis Cathedral--which was finally framed by beautiful blue skies on our third day in Nawlins. Both the exterior and interior of this cathedral is a work of art, although this was not the original structure. The first cathedral was built around 1727 but burned in a fire in 1788. A new cathedral was built and completed by 1795 and was the gift of the wealthy Don Andres Almonester y Roxas, a native of Andalusia who had acquired numerous properties since his arrival in New Orleans.
This building is impressive when standing in its shadow as well as as far back as the opposite end of Jackson Square. Every time we walked through this area, I always had to look and appreciate the beauty of what was constructed.
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I love this picture just beautiful .... really beautiful .... 
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Awww that's a wonderful place to have your first kiss! I became enchanted with New Orleans and want to keep going back year after year...
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Visited there in Autumn many years ago, it was a sunny day and I had a chockolate dipped ice cream which totall sealed the ice cream to the cone, the sun melted the ice cream leaving the chocolate intact, then when I bit into it, I had to eat a giant ice cream in 30 seconds. Funny what you remember.
Great shot, just as I remember it.
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LOL I'm the sort of person that if I'd had some semi-melted chocolate dipped ice cream, it would have ended up all over me and I'd have looked like a 5 year old.
I really want to go back again, maybe about a month later in the year next time so I get the nice warm weather without the hot-sticky humidity, though I'm sure it'll be with some of my girlfriends as I don't think my husband will want to return.
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Mine was ice cream dipped in chocolate, I did look like a five year old. I have never been so hot in my life, I had left England in a cold Autumn, and arrived in New Orleans in what I would call a heatwave. It was not so bad but I had been there to attend a trade show.
On my last day, I had to check out the hotel, so there was me, suit, (possibly sweater) overcoat, suitcase with only a couple of hours before I flew home, went for a quick trip on Natchez, got off the boat, got the ice cream and tried to eat it and keep clean and had to bribe the taxi driver to step on on it as I almost missed my flight home. Great trip, the memories will last forever.
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Did you use a polarizer to get the sky that blue? Beautiful shot!
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I didn't, I had the sun almost directly behind me, and so I was able to get that deep blue sky without it. I came packed with bare essentials, though I do wonder how this might have come out if I'd brought my polarizer.
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I didn't, I actually kicked myself hard when I reviewed that day's shoot because the ISO was set to 800 on such a bright day. =/ I'd had my camera just in P mode and so it set the F stop and shutter based on my ISO. I felt like such an idiot....
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Hey dont beat yourself up. You shutter speed, F stop and iso work almost perfectly into the sunny 16 rule so it looks almost intentional.
Plus we have all had days we have forgotten to change the ISO. I once shot a series of portraits at 6400. Yah. That was embarrassing.
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Aw thanks!! LOL I have a portrait sitting sometime next month, I know I'll be triple-checking my ISO so I'm not shooting them too grainy!
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