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New
Orleans is so swampy that they have to bury people above ground
or they'll float away. So, they have really cool looking cemeteries.
They give tours of the cemeteries and I kept reading how they were
so dangerous and how you had best take a tour and not brave the
cemetery alone or you would be mugged. It just wasn't anything like
that. First of all, the tours are there whether you're on one or
not, and the cemetery is full of tourists, not muggers. Now, if
you go there and get mugged, don't blame me. Go in the daylight.
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| We
were there on a very sunny day which made for some great shots with
an incredible blue sky, but other shots are way too contrasty. |
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| Above
are some of the really old tombs. Below right is some thing set up
just inside the cemetery. Don't know what that is. |
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| Next
are photos of Madame Marie Laveau's tomb. She was the Voodoo Queen.
We saw a shrine-thing set up for her in one of the voodoo shops also.
People lay stuff in front of her tomb. I reckon it varies; at this
time there was a small pumpkin, assorted flowers, coins, and rocks,
paper money, an open can of Budweiser, a pen, bits of paper, a ring,
a half a bottle of what might have been water, and some bits of stuff
that wasn't readily identifiable. |
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| Below,
right is some weird hairy thing that hangs on the right of the tombfront.
Below, left is the plaque that is on the left. Interesting story about
that photo. I was working on it in Photoshop and somehow it beveled
without beveling the plaque itself. It was very bizarre; obviously
Madame Laveau did it, being a dead voodoo queen and all. So, I am
using that one on this page; I know that's what she would want.
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