Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Upon seeing Frank Aymami's infrared images, I fell in love with their ethereal, film-like quality. I also became fascinated with the way that infrared makes green leaves and grass look like snow and turns a bright blue sky black and shades of grey. I decided to try infrared photography and went straight to the expert himself, Frank, for lessons in one of his favorite venues - a New Orleans cemetery.
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The first stop for us was Salton Sea Beach. Describing this community is quite difficult as I have never experienced anything like it. Before I visited, I was told that it “looks like an atomic bomb went off”; “people just appeared to have fled, leaving all of their possessions behind”; “salt encrusts everything”; and that is "HOT." Now having visited briefly, I would say all of that rings true. It was 114 degrees Fahrenheit when we arrived in the late afternoon and it truly looked like a bomb had gone off and then several floods had occurred. Graffiti adorned almost everything that remained. Furniture, appliances, old televisions, and other personal possessions sat outside to bake in the scorching sun.
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