streetcleaning

Jeremy Green “The Party’s Over” 2/16/23

The first of many parades on St. Charles Avenue in the Garden District of New Orleans happened last night. My friends’ home provided a front row seat, but all evening I had a ball just galavanting around amid the noisy crowd, the music, the floats, and the flying beads. I shot whatever I saw and felt in the street, mostly using on-camera flash and shutter drag. When it was all over though, another show was on display as the clean-up crew turned St. Charles into a clean street again in a jiffy with leaf blowers, rakes, water canons, and bull dozers! It was so beautiful to watch that I staid on the street and shot the messy scene. I turned off the flash and let the available backlighting do its thing.