Our first Mardi Gras in Mobile, led off by the Conde Cavaliers Parade. We have a relative in this parade, and that certainly seemed to be a good enough reason to drive to Mobile for the parade, and to see what all this Mardi Gras is about.
It’s not my first – That would be a hazy remembrance of marching in New Orleans. But it was our first in Mobile, and the experience was so positive that we immediately made plans to return 2 weeks later for the finale through Fat Tuesday.
It took a little while before our kids figured out what to do… Holding the bag open like at Halloween just didn’t work well. Eventually they picked up that you have to hold your hands up and shout, like the hands in the bottom of this picture.
I love that I was able to grab as many decent photos as I did. It was very dark, and those floats don’t sit still. Getting the shutter speed high enough to capture these was a real challenge, not to mention keeping the camera still while being bumped from all sides!
Although, this time, it snuck up on me.
I am pleased to announce that some of my photographs are on display at the Williamson County Public Library again, this time for the Month of February.
Following the success of the previous exhibit, we made plans to do another. However, it seems that while we made the appointment with the Library, we didn’t actually write the appointment down anywhere.
So, imagine our surprise when we were notified that the space would be available Feb 1 for us… On Jan 21st!
Thankfully, we had already made the plans to do the exhibit based on our incredible trip to Mobile for Mardi Gras. The fact that that Mardi Gras is occurring now only adds to the exhibit.
So, after scrambling to acquire and cut matting, frames and doing the selections for the exhibit, we topped everything off with a large snow and Ice storm. It only set us back a day, however.
I’ll be uploading a picture from the exhibit to here throughout the month, with a few remarks about each. These pictures are predominately Mardi Gras Mobile, but there are a few that aren’t exactly, but either fit the mood, or just had to go up.
I hope you enjoy them!
Greg Nicholson
For the longest time, I’ve primarily displayed everything via the Web. I’d digitize film to post on the net. Digital cameras became a life saver for me. (My wife might not agree.) 20 minutes after my first child was born, pictures were uploaded for all to see. Since then, there has been a fairly constant flow of bytes and bits to Gallery.
The Web is great for getting content up. It’s cheap. It’s easy.
Compressing an image to 1200 pixels makes it easy to see, easy to upload, and easy to download. It doesn’t however, capture everything there is. Differences in monitors, gamma settings, Web browser implentations, and color calibrations all mean that the pictures aren’t the same.
And it just doesn’t look as good.
I’m very proud to be displaying a selection of pictures at the Williamson County Library for the month of December, so that they can be appreciated closer to the manner in which they were meant.
Frankly, I’m actually a bit surprised at some of the images. While I enjoyed them as they were displayed on screen, once they were put to paper at high resolution, details and vibrancy started to pop out that I had missed originally. It’s very simple to zoom into individual areas of a picture for detail, or to draw back and absorb the colors. It’s another thing entirely for me, to be able to do both at once.
I hope you enjoy the selections as much as I do.