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Spring 2016 Photography Contest eBook Now Available to Download

Our staff is constantly amazed and thrilled by the perspectives of the plantation that we fail to notice on a daily basis, all the more reason to cherish the gift that these photographs represent. Our Spring 2016 eBook of this photography is now available for our fans to download for free, and works on PC & Mac, and tables from iPad to Android. The download link is near the bottom of this page.

Congratulations to all of our winners and to all who participated in this contest. We certainly hope you can visit with us again soon and share more photographs!

Thank you for supporting Oak Alley Foundation through your visitation, your photo entries, and your donations.

We encourage you to visit Oak Alley often and to feel free to share your photos with us via our FaceBook page, or post them on social media with the hashtag “#OakAlley”.

Download free at:

http://www.oakalleyplantation.com/news/spring-2016-photography-contest-ebook-now-available (at Oak Alley, Louisiana)

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Comparison of ironwork on balconies in New Orleans and New York. An unintentional collaboration by @gairid and @i-want-my-iwtv, 3 years apart.

I’ve walked by this balcony on 54th street dozens of times and felt this nostalgia, where was that feeling coming from?! Now I know! My friend @vampchronfic has been using the NOLA balcony shot as their header image! Little piece of NOLA right here in NY *u* I would bet the NOLA balcony was made first, since it has more details and dimensionality, but maybe simplifying that was a design choice for the NY client, since we have harsher weather to contend with here.

Cake or pie?

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{I assume this is a question for the mun and not the muse bc of obv. reasons}

Both, both is good! All the cake and pie!

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^I saw this doge in NOLA and he is very much alive, just playing dead drunk. This is me after like one slice of cake and/or pie, too. 

[I am not a foodie but I have a very serious sweet tooth bc ‘MURICA. Dark chocolate bars are my fave. 2nd is white chocolate. White chocolate kitkat bars omg… Milk chocolate is kinda boring to me but I do like M&Ms and Reese’s cups. Mint choc. chip ice-cream is a real guilty pleasure *drools*]

My RL best friend is a foodie and she is gonna laugh her ass off at my vivid display of foodieism below but OH WELL.

If I had to choose, the Oreo pie at the Court of the Two Sisters in NOLA one of my absolute faves, and it is very cake-like. I wish I had a pic but I generally just do not take pics of my food so i guess i will have to go back there! While I love a slab of NYC cheesecake, after the first few bites, I need help finishing it bc it’s so homogeneous. The Oreo pie has all the stuff I like best: cream filling, crumbly dark chocolate, vanilla, various textures. 

Best pie I ever had was apple pie in the middle of nowhere in Arizona. With a big scoop of melty vanilla bean ice-cream. The apples inside still had a little bite to them, and they floated in the yummy congealed filling. Flaky toasted crust. It was pretty awesome. But then again we were starving, so it might have been the old “Hunger is the best sauce” effect 😉

Plus, there is a fic floating around out there that mentions this specific type of NOLA pastry, called the “King Cake,” and henceforth Lestat has the nickname “Babycakes.”

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Dec. 2015: Glitter hooves spotted in New Orleans, LA. Wonder who’s responsible for this fashionable touch… 

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infiniterider:

alwaystomcruise:

TGIF! New pics of Never Go Back set!

Lol, OMG you sleepy, Tom??

These aren’t great pics, reblogging bc my friends and I were in NOLA last weekend (12/5/15) and there was tons of film equipment crowding the little French Quarter for this, they were shooting on Chartres St., near Jackson Square 😀 That fleur-de-lis on the car door is ubiquitous in that city. They even have it on the trash cans.