Alan Invades New Orleans - DPChallenge Forums

01/14/2007 04:50:46 PM · #1

Anyone interested in a mini-GTG next weekend? I'm planning to visit N.O. for a bit next Sunday, January 21st. I'd enjoy meeting fellow DPC'ers if anyone is available for lunch or something, and I promise I'll leave you alone by the time the NFC Championship Game starts :)

kenskid

Nikon D700

01/14/2007 06:10:13 PM · #2

Wow...next week huh...Sunday? If anyone here wants to meet ya, it will have to be in the morning. Saints on at 2pm !!!

Good Luck.

Originally posted by alanfreed:

01/14/2007 06:24:05 PM · #3

Originally posted by kenskid:

Wow...next week huh...Sunday? If anyone here wants to meet ya, it will have to be in the morning. Saints on at 2pm !!!

I promised that I'd relieve anyone of any GTG obligations well before The Game :) An early lunch would be cool, if anyone's available.

01/14/2007 06:33:22 PM · #4

I may be able to do something... I'll have to wait a few days to know for sure. I'll be watching this thread.

01/14/2007 06:41:58 PM · #5

Originally posted by tryals15:

I may be able to do something... I'll have to wait a few days to know for sure. I'll be watching this thread.

That'd be cool... I saw in Slippy's thread that you come highly recommended as a guide! :)

cpurser

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/14/2007 07:41:46 PM · #6

I'm interested if I have the time to spare. I live in Slidell.

-Chad

Strikeslip

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

01/14/2007 07:53:02 PM · #7

Originally posted by alanfreed:

Originally posted by tryals15:
I may be able to do something... I'll have to wait a few days to know for sure. I'll be watching this thread.

That'd be cool... I saw in Slippy's thread that you come highly recommended as a guide! :)

Yes, and I loved New Orleans. The architecture is beautiful! The thin streets are really cool. I recommend the bar we met at, and the cemetary #1 we went to. And Trey, remember when you said, "Someone famous is in this cemetery, but I can't remember who."? I found out later on, it is Marie Laveau, of the famous voodoo shoppe on Bourbon Street. It's the grave with all the "X's" drawn in chalk on it. I'll leave it up to Alan to look up the reason why. :-)

01/14/2007 07:54:01 PM · #8

Originally posted by cpurser:

I'm interested if I have the time to spare. I live in Slidell.

-Chad

Sent ya a PM :)

01/16/2007 11:51:51 AM · #9

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Originally posted by alanfreed:

Originally posted by tryals15:
I may be able to do something... I'll have to wait a few days to know for sure. I'll be watching this thread.

That'd be cool... I saw in Slippy's thread that you come highly recommended as a guide! :)

Yes, and I loved New Orleans. The architecture is beautiful! The thin streets are really cool. I recommend the bar we met at, and the cemetary #1 we went to. And Trey, remember when you said, "Someone famous is in this cemetery, but I can't remember who."? I found out later on, it is Marie Laveau, of the famous voodoo shoppe on Bourbon Street. It's the grave with all the "X's" drawn in chalk on it. I'll leave it up to Alan to look up the reason why. :-)

Good to know... Hopefully I'll be able to remember that until the next time I'm showing someone around the city... =]

And as far as being a good guide -- I'm not so sure about that. That could be the Corona's talkin'... =]

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

01/21/2007 10:28:21 PM · #10

Hey! We had fun! =]

I'm glad to have gotten to meet Chad and Alan. We wandered around the quarter and even managed to make it to the top of a building at some point... We had lunch at the Clover Grill; thanks to whoever recommended that... =]

Edit: Yeah, I'm an idiot... Thumbs work now =]

Message edited by author 2007-01-22 13:43:36.

yanko

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

01/21/2007 10:45:38 PM · #11

Well it looks like you are using the [img] tag instead of the [thumb] tag at least that's how it shows when I go and quote your post in a reply.

01/21/2007 10:47:40 PM · #12

Originally posted by yanko:

Well it looks like you are using the [img] tag instead of the [thumb] tag at least that's how it shows when I go and quote your post in a reply.

Thanks... Got 'em fixed now... It's just one of those days... =]

01/21/2007 11:12:52 PM · #13

It was great to meet you and Chad today! That was a lot of fun -- I got a good laugh out of a few of your shots. I'll post some when I get a chance.

Sorry about the whole Saints thing... :(

Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical HF for Pentax

01/21/2007 11:53:52 PM · #14

Originally posted by alanfreed:

It was great to meet you and Chad today! That was a lot of fun -- I got a good laugh out of a few of your shots. I'll post some when I get a chance.

Sorry about the whole Saints thing... :(

Yeah, well, what can ya do? =/

Pug-H

Pentax K10D

01/21/2007 11:57:27 PM · #15

Ah, so it wasn't "Alien Invades New Orleans". This monitor at school is so screwy. ;-)

cpurser

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/22/2007 10:40:19 AM · #16

Hey, I had a great time too. I'm glad that most of the rain held off for us. I've gone through most of my pictures too, though I don't have any with me to post. I'll get some up tonight.

I took some good shots in Jackson Square after we split up.

-Chad

cpurser

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/22/2007 11:14:55 PM · #17

Here are some of what I took, including the wall featured above :-)