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August 27, 2008

 

Photo: Blue infrared photo of New Orleans' French Quarter

French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000

Photograph by Bob Sacha

Shot in infrared, New Orleans' French Quarter seems bathed in blue early one morning. The oldest neighborhood in the city, the quarter is a national historic landmark and a popular tourist destination.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Spirits of New Orleans," October 2000, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

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