New Orleans

I lugged the very heavy QuickTime VR equipment with me to New Orleans. Saturday morning Anthony Freeman (link) and I went out shooting. The first five QuickTime VR cubical panoramas were shot in St. Louis #1, a cemetary near the French Quarter. Cemetaries in New Orleans were built above ground because the city itself lies below sea level. The very wet ground actually forced caskets up and out of the ground. It was not uncommon to see them floating down the Missippi river.

Tony and I went to the Canal Street dock at Riverwalk, where we rode down the Missippi River on the Creole Queen paddlewheel. It was a nice ride, but it was really cold and neither one of us packed appropriately.

In the middle of the Creole Queen paddleboat cruise, we got off to tour the site of the Battle of New Orleans. There isn't much to look at but a monument, and lots of grass.