New Orleans, Louisiana, is known for many things. This includes events such as Mardi Gras and the Jazz Festival. The there is the amazing Creole and Cajun food such as gumbo, jambalaya, red beans and rice, po’ boys, fried catfish, and peach cobbler. There is the historic architecture of the French Quarter and the daily offerings at its French Market. Music literally fills the air on almost every street corner in this area from the large number of talented local musicians. Then there are the artists and street performers which can be found throughout most of the French Quarter, especially in and around Jackson Square and its surrounding blocks or along the Mississippi Riverwalk. This is where you will often find Uncle Louie, the human statue, especially during docking times of the Steamboat Natchez while crowds are disembarking from its tours. His real name is Johnie Lewis Miller, and he has been performing and entertaining crowds like this since the nineties. Uncle Louie is very noticeable in his white suit with patriotic adornments such as a star-spangled tie and a red and white striped top hat. He is often found holding the leash of a plush dog named Little Willie, who himself is adorned with his own stars and stripes top hat. He will often have volunteers from the surrounding crowd pose with him as a double human statue. Here The Wild Images Team captured one of these moments, our favorite shot of a New Orleans street performer so far, as Uncle Louie and an equally talented woman stand frozen in a sunny mid-afternoon stroll down the Mississippi Riverwalk, while in the background a Riverfront Streetcar is just coming into view on the right. The Wild Images Team has captured many other images in New Orleans including the prominent Hotel Monteleone and surrounding buildings, beautiful French Quarter ironwork view through the cornstalk fence, intricate designs of a house facade and lamp shadows, nice reflection of a bridge in the Louis Armstrong Park, dynamic view as a Canal Line streetcar passes a St. Charles Line streetcar, the eerie nighttime view of Pirates Alley of the French Quarter, an example of an urban art sign stenciled on the wall, the distant building and colorful lights of the French Market, chance encounter with a teddy bear silhouette in French Market window, more north can be found an ornate mausoleum of Greenwood Cemetery, elsewhere is a heavenly scene over Cypress Grove Cemetery, more south was a sunset over the Mississippi River delta, all of which are available for sale in our store. Our blog posts of New Orleans document the midnight crowd at always busy Cafe du Monde, the dimly lit stocked shelves of Loa Bar in the International House Hotel, the colorful French Quarter Wedding Chapel at night, the happy couple leading a wedding procession on Chartres Street, far down the French Quarter where intricately colorful balconies stand above Chartres Street, the moment when entertainers welcomed crowds to the Jax Brewery, the street performer human statue Uncle Louis poses with a visitor, the pink hues of a rare colorful mausoleum in Greenwood Cemetery, the long shadows of bikes chained to old pump lamp posts, reflections of the bus commuters in front of a St. Charles Line Streetcar, a view of the city reflected in the Steamboat Natchez searchlight, the nighttime view of lighted tugboats along the Mississippi River, the steampunk view of the PBF Petroleum Refinery along the Mississippi River, the St. Charles Avenue Irish House Guinness Toucan Time For A Pint clock, the humorous but serious condominium listing warning that the place for lease is haunted, the listing that creates relief by being not haunted, our always entertaining Team Coordinator Christina in Cafe Maspero, and again our Team Coordinator under the Guinness Toucan clock. A distance away from New Orleans to the west are the enormous swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin, where we have captured numerous great photos such as the alligator with cypress tree reflections, a group of alligators with dragonflies, a very large cypress tree and Spanish moss, a thick cypress tree grove reflects in the still water, a large swarm of dragonflies congregate on a marsh plant, a very red sunset through the cypress trees, and a reflective sunset through the Spanish moss, each of which is available for sale in our store. Another image captured much further away to the west along the Gulf of Mexico coast is this very remote cemetery near Cote Blanche Bay, and much further away to the north up the Mississippi River is the Myrtles Plantation front yard walkway, each of which are available for sale in our store. We have also documented much of our time in Louisiana in many different blog posts such as in the Atchafalaya Basin where we encountered an open style honeybee hive and Spanish moss and down near the gulf coast with another view of the remote cemetery near Cote Blanche Bay.
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