A Special Day
Late afternoon sun helped a little bit after the fact. One of my fellow bloggers, Kaie W. Bird, posted a little video from Israel. Yesterday was the Israeli day to remember victims of The Holocaust. In...
View ArticleString Quartet From Whiskey Boot Hill
Virginia City’s Boot Hill. I’ve been spending a lot of time at home lately. That’s all good. It’s given me time to review and rework older material. Like this out take from an old trip to Virginia...
View ArticleThe Heart of the Place
Priest at prayer. A little photo essay about the heart of St. Bernard Parish. Without getting into the religiosity or spirituality of things, I really do like photographing churches or temples. I also...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Cemetery
St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery. Not really just another cemetery. One that I’ve visited. But, I did go poke around in that part of the 9th Ward where I “discovered” the St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery. I...
View ArticleOut There in the Sugarcane
Crosses and barns. Yesterday. Strange day. We needed to work. We are in mourning for a friend who passed rather unexpectantly. So, it was one of those the work is the prayer days. We did part of the...
View ArticleFive Crosses
1800s metal work. I thought I’d show you a few more pictures from the cemetery at St. Philip Catholic Church in Vacherie. Since, I’ve written about this place just a few days ago, I won’t bore you with...
View ArticleRoad Trips
Looking Back. Road trips. They begin. They end. Somewhere in the middle is sort of a mid-point. A turn around place. Sometimes, that’s the destination. You get there. You stay there for a while. You...
View ArticleInevitability
Lafayette Cemetery No. 2. “The taste of a memory.” — Tagline from Streits Matzo Factory advertisement.Filed under: Laskowitzpictures.com, Photographs, Pictures, Ray Laskowitz Tagged: Cemetery, Central...
View ArticleCemetery Stroll
Cloudy Summer’s Day I took a walk. Well, not exactly. I took some friends on a tour of New Orleans. My New Orleans. The more hellish side. We started with Lafayette Cemetery No. 2. It’s located in...
View ArticleLafayette Cemetery No 1.
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 at sunset. Cemeteries and me. I really don’t think that I have any kind of death fixation. Nor, do I think that much about my end. I just sort of like these places. Old stuff....
View ArticleIt Don’t Come Easy
Out on River Road “Ain’t it hard when you wake up in the morning And you find out that those other days are gone? All you have is memories of happiness lingerin’ on All your dreams and your lovers...
View ArticleDaytime
Bikes at Lafayette Cemetery No. 2 I often return to the scene. Of the crime. Remember the dusky, blue hour picture of Lafayette Cemetery No. 2 that I posted two days ago? I took this picture the next...
View ArticleUpriver
Miles and miles… This is a perfect symbol. An icon. Of the state that I call home. Louisiana. Oil. Religion. All in one picture. Well, the oil “bidness” is tanking and the state is broke. That’s not...
View ArticleSoul Survivor
Dancing on the tombstone. So. One of you said yesterday’s picture was scary enough. Ha! This feels a little more scary to me. And, it’s within about five minutes walking distance from the house. The...
View ArticlePlaster Face
Graveyard statue. Back to the desktop. A little more layer experimentation. And, a little less color. I forget when and where I made the two base images. My guess is that I combined one image from New...
View ArticleThe Big One
Holy storm… Big storm comin’. Soon. Not in New Orleans. Not right now. In this picture. A picture that I made a while back. In New Mexico. Yes. I miss the quality of the light there. It is clean. It is...
View ArticleIn the Graveyard
In the neighborhood. Wandering around. Again. I made this picture on a day when a storm broke. When the heavy clouds were lifting and the scene was getting a little bright, sparkly and shiny. It’s a...
View ArticleSt. Roch
A different view. St. Roch. I’ve written about this place in the past. Mostly, I’ve posted pictures of the offerings of prosthetics and crutches to St. Roch for help with health issues. That’s...
View ArticleSunset in the Graveyard
Sunset in a special place. I don’t often photograph sunsets. When I do. I either turn around and make a picture of where that glorious golden fell and illuminated something, or I make the foreground...
View ArticleCatch Me If you Can
Potter’s field in New Orleans. I’m going back. Carole King wrote it. Just about everybody recorded it. “Going Back.” A song for the ages. A song for me. I was alright. I’d gotten over the shock. Of the...
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