September 2, 2010
Picture of the Day: Komodo Dragon
Today's picture for you is of a Komodo Dragon, one of the largest reptiles in the modern world. This picture was taken at the Minnesota Zoo. While not as endangered as implied in the movie "The Freshman", the habitat of the Komodo Dragon is limited to only a few Indonesian islands.
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August 31, 2010
Picture of the Day: Photographers in Lamar Valley
I'm far from the only photographer at the destinations I go on my adventures. Here is a group of photographers in Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park, hunting the perfect wildlife shot
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August 30, 2010
Picture of the Day: Maze
Today's picture is amazing.
No, really its a maze, a hedge maze in fact, at the Minnesota Arboretum in Chanhassen. This was taken from a tower you reach once you solve the maze--and it is a real maze that takes time to solve.
Kids and those young at heart love it, judging from how popular it was with kids and adults alike...
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August 27, 2010
Picture of the Day: Turnoff View of George
Today's picture for you is of the "Free view" of George Washington on Mt. Rushmore.
While you do have to pay to get into the Monument, if you take the highway west of the entrance into the Black Hills, you will come to a turnoff where you can see this view of Washington's head, for free!
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August 26, 2010
Picture of the Day: Entrance to the Fair
Its that magical time of the year here in the North Star State--State Fair time.
The MN state fair is one of the largest and best of such events across the country, lasting nearly two weeks and drawing a substantial percentage of the state's population. The only real pain is that The Source is near the fair, so visiting my FLGS during fair time is a bad idea,at best.
Anyway, today's picture is of the entrance to the fair...and weather permitting, there should be new pictures from the fair this year if and when I go.
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August 25, 2010
Picture of the Day: Shovel Point
Today's picture for you is of Shovel Point, in Tettegouche State Park on Minnesota's north shore. You could see this yesterday in the view from Palisade Head; this is a view of it from the trail that runs to its tip.
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August 24, 2010
Picture of the Day: View from Palisade Head
Today's picture for you keeps us in Tettegouche State Park, but takes us up to the top of Palisade Head. Looking from this vantage spot, you can see Shovel Point (from where you can see the Arch turned Sea stack) in the distance.
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August 23, 2010
Picture of the Day: The Lost Tettegouche Arch
Today's picture for you is of something that no longer exists.
This is the Tettegouche Arch, in Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota. Over the weekend, erosion finally caused the keystone of the arch to collapse. I took this picture of the now lost arch in April 2009.
An article on the destroyed arch is here:
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/176979/
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August 19, 2010
Picture of the Day: Ice Age Trail Marker
Today's picture for you is a memorial marker. This boulder, in Interstate State Park, Wisconsin, marks the Western end of the 1200 mile Ice Age National Scenic Trail.
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August 18, 2010
Picture of the Day: The Nameless Face
Today's picture for you is what the park ranger who I accompanied on a hike along this trail called "the nameless face". The rocks do sort of form a body and the top rock does sort of resemble a face. This is, again, Interstate State Park, Wisconsin
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August 17, 2010
Picture of the Day: The Beach House
Today's picture from you is a classic peace of WPA-era architecture. This is the beach house in front of the beach on Lake O' The Dalles , in Wisconsin's Interstate State Park.
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August 16, 2010
Picture of the Day: Fireman practicing rescue
Today's picture from you is of one of the Firemen I met at the Wisconsin side of Interstate State Park. Rock climbing is a popular pasttime on both sides of the park, and so the firemen from stations in WI and MN both need to be able to rescue stranded climbers. I encountered a group of firemen, such as this gentleman, practicing a rescue operation.
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August 13, 2010
Picture of the Day: Minnesota Welcome Sign
Today's picture for you is of the large "Minnesota Welcome" sign, near the Wisconsin Border along Hwy 8, just south of Taylors Falls, MN
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August 12, 2010
Picture of the Day: St. Croix River
Today's picture for you is another moody look at the St. Croix River. This is just upstream of the Dalles and the rapids of the St Croix at Interstate State Park (off and to the right of this picture)
You can see this year's heavy rains have led to a lush landscape here in Minnesota!
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August 11, 2010
Picture of the Day: Taylors Falls Sign
Today's picture for you is one of those informational signs that I love so much. This one tells the story of Taylors Falls, the closest town to Interstate State Park.
(I strongly recommend looking at a larger version to read the entire fascinating story)
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August 10, 2010
Picture of the Day: Railroad Trail
Is it a hot day where you are? (Here it is stifling). Perhaps a nice walk down the Railroad Trail of Interstate State Park, pictured here, is the ticket to feeling better in the dog days of August.
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August 9, 2010
Picture of the Day: The Dalles of the St. Croix
And to start the workweek off, let's take a look at where I went, virus and all, on Saturday.
This is the St. Croix River, in Taylors Falls, Minnesota. Interstate State Park, to be precise. The geology of the area is fascinating, including one of the world's largest collection of glacial potholes, as well as this canyon, called the Dalles. It was overcast most of the morning, leading to this very moody view.
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August 6, 2010
Picture of the Day: Kakabeka Falls
Today's picture for you, to wind up the week, is the thunderously
impressive Kakabeka Falls, in Ontario, Canada. This is definitely a waterfall I need to revisit someday--perhaps when I get around to another trip to the north.
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August 5, 2010
Picture of the Day: Quake Lake
Today's picture for you takes us to Gallatin National Forest and the aptly named (via a massive 1959 temblor) Quake Lake.
The earthquake measured 7.3 on the Richter scale (Revised by USGS to 7.6) and caused an 80 million ton landslide which formed a landslide dam on the Madison River. The landslide traveled down the south flank of Sheep Mountain, at an estimated 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), killing 28 people who were camping along the shores of Hebgen Lake and downstream along the Madison River. Upstream the faulting caused by the earthquake forced the waters of Hebgen Lake to shift violently. A seiche, a wave effect of both wind and water, crested over Hebgen Dam, causing cracks and erosion. Besides being the largest known earthquake to have struck the state of Montana in recorded history, it is also the largest earthquake to occur in the Northern Rockies for centuries and is one of the largest earthquakes ever to hit the United States in recorded history.
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August 4, 2010
Picture of the Day: Beartooth Mts.
Today's picture brings us back to the Mountains. These are the Beartooth Mountains, just east of Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming.
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August 3, 2010
Picture of the Day: Medusa
Today's picture for you shows off my interest in Classical Greco-Roman mythology. This is a 19th century bust of Medusa, done by Harriet Goodhue Hosmer. The bust is part of the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts.
A closer look at this picture, though, shows that I need to clean my camera lenses!
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August 2, 2010
Picture of the Day: The Bicyclists
Today's picture for you is of a group of bicyclists photographed in Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis. The landmark Minnehaha Depot in the background. It seems the two lead bicyclists are at the least, are bemused by my presence there.
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July 30, 2010
Entrance Facade
Today's picture for you is of the Entrance Facade to the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, in Minneapolis.
Those of you who have been to NYC can see the resemblance between this and the entrance to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The resemblance is deliberate--this museum (opened in 1915) was meant to evoke the NY institution.
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July 29, 2010
Picture of the Day: Minnehaha Falls
Today's picture for you is clearly in my comfort zone--a waterfall. Minnehaha falls, as a matter of fact. Catch the rainbow (at the bottom)!
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July 28, 2010
Picture of the Day: The Impossible Black Tulip
Today's picture for you is for the cartographiles. This is a closeup of the Impossible Black Tulip, a map with only a few copies left in the world. This map was a collaboration between the Jesuit Matteo Ricci and Chinese cartographers in the 16th century. The University of Minnesota just purchased it (for a million dollars...) and it is on display through the end of August at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. This piece of the map shows the southeastern portions of China and Indochina.
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July 27, 2010
Picture of the Day: Pavilion and Bridge
Today's picture for you is a view of the Pavilion and Bridge at the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
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July 26, 2010
Picture of the Day: Two Bridges
Today's picture for you is of two of the bridges across the koi pond at the Normandale Comm. College Japanese Garden.
The bridge in the foreground is crooked on purpose. Shinto belief maintains that certain evil spirits cannot navigate such right turns, and so the bridge's design keeps them from crossing the river.
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July 23, 2010
Picture of the Day: Dragons Teeth
And to finish out the workweek, you might have some rapids to deal with at work. So its appropriate that today's picture are some *real* rapids...in this case, the Dragons Teeth rapids on the Kettle River. The river and the rapids are in Banning State Park, Minnesota.
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July 22, 2010
Picture of the Day: State Capitol
Today's picture for you is another view of one of the most beautiful State Capitol buildings out there, the Cass Gilbert designed Minnesota State Capitol.
Right now at this moment, its covered by scaffolding for some badly needed renovation, this picture was taken back in April of this year.
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July 21, 2010
Picture of the Day: Minneapolis Sunset
Today's picture for you is another view of the Minneapolis
Skyline--this time at Sunset, on New Year's Eve.
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July 20, 2010
Picture of the Day: Sinopel Daffodil
Today's picture for you is a closeup of a white Sinopel Daffodil, taken at the Minnesota Arboretum.
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July 19, 2010
Picture of the Day: Minneapolis Skyline
Today's picture for you is a new shot of the Minneapolis skyline,seen from the Ridgeway Parkway, north of the city.
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July 16, 2010
Picture of the Day: North End of the Canyon
Today's picture for you is of the North end of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River (facing away from the waterfalls). This is back from 2005, in my pre DSLR days.
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July 15, 2010
Picture of the Day: Koi Pond
Today's picture for you is of the Koi Pond and the Japanese Garden, in monochrome, at the Como Park Conservatory.
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July 14, 2010
Picture of the Day: tunnel on the Byway
Today's picture for you is one of the picturesque, but very narrow, tunnels through the Black Hills on the Needles Scenic Byway, South Dakota
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July 13, 2010
Picture of the Day: Mist on the St. Louis
Today's picture for you takes us back to last fall. This is the St. Louis River, in Jay Cooke State Park near Duluth, Minnesota. I stood on the famous swinging bridge, and took pictures of the beautiful, wild river.
As an aside, the DNR is trying to reintroduce sturgeon to the river, after they died out some decades ago due to pollution.
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July 12, 2010
Picture of the Day: Infrared Crabapples
Today's picture for you returns us to the weird and wonderful world of Infrared photography. These are some crabapple trees in bloom, at the Minnesota arboretum.
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July 9, 2010
Picture of the Day: Open Pit Mine Rock Face at Soudan
Today's picture to end the work week is not a natural outcrop or exposure, but rather an exposed rock face from the Soudan Mine, in Soudan Minnesota.
Eventually, the mine switched from open pit to the underground mine, leaving the large exposed pit to be recolonized by lichens, plants and trees, as you can see.
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July 8, 2010
Picture of the Day: Pioneer Mine
Today's picture is of the headframe and other assembly of the Pioneer Mine, near Miner's Lake in Ely, Minnesota.
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July 7, 2010
Picture of the Day: Soudan Iron Formation Outcrop
Today's picture for you is for the Geology enthusiasts.
This is an exposed outcrop (glacially polished, no less) of the Soudan Iron formation, at the Soudan Underground Mine State Park. It is rock like this which drew the miners to the aptly titled Iron Range in Minnesota. I probably should have been a good geologist and provided something for scale, but this outcrop is not very large.
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July 6, 2010
Picture of the Day: Fall Lake
It's going to be hot and humid today across a swath of the country, so here is another "cool" picture for you to enjoy. This is Fall Lake, where we camped on our trip to the MN northwoods recently.
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July 5, 2010
Picture of the Day: Kawishiwi Falls Redux
Today's picture is another view of Kawishiwi Falls, on the Iron Range, just east of Ely, Minnesota.
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July 2, 2010
Today's MN Today photo is from me...
Hi all.
Not a new picture, but a bit of photography "news".
Minnesota Public Radio has been branching out into the online blogosphere for some time now. They have a sub-site, Minnesota Today, devoted to that, and one
of their features on that site is "Minnesota Scenes", photos from around the state.
Go to Minnesota Today, today, and scroll down to the bottom to Minnesota Scenes.
Yep, today's picture (the black and white picture of Maya the wolf) is courtesy of yours truly!
http://mntoday.mprnewsq.org/scenes/53
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Picture of the Day: Kawishiwi Falls
And for Friday, let's cool off with a waterfall for the picture today. This is Kawishiwi Falls near Ely, Minnesota.
This picture was a conscious effort to come up with an "Ansel Adams" style picture--high contrast, black and white, the water of the waterfall deliberately overexposed a bit as per the Zone system.
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July 1, 2010
Picture of the Day: Maya
Today's picture for you takes us to the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota. This is a monochrome shot of Maya, the solitary female in the group of wolves that they have there.
She is, perforce, my favorite of the set,. Isn't she gorgeous?
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June 30, 2010
Picture of the Day: Soudan Headframe Assembly
Today's picture for you is of the iconic Headframe Assembly of the Soudan Underground Mine at the eponymous park. This device allows the elevator car (that you can ride!) to be launched 2300 feet deep into the earth...
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June 29, 2010
Picture of the Day: Minnesota North Woods
And so my pictures from Ely begin.
First off, let's start with a carpet of green, Minnesota style. No, not a large lawn, but the seemingly endless forests of Northern Minnesota. This view is from a hill at Soudan Underground Mine State Park, in Soudan, Minnesota...about 30 miles west of where we were camping.
As you can see, the forest does go on as far as the eye can see.
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June 28, 2010
Picture of the Day: Stormy Weather
I am still working on my pictures from my trip to the Northwoods of Minnesota. In the meantime, here is something different...a dramatic stormy view off of I-90 in South Dakota. The storm is approaching, the sun is shining behind me (see the shadow of my car and me?) and you can almost smell the rain coming.
Sometimes weather changes make for the best and most interesting photographs, don't you think?
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June 25, 2010
Picture of the Day: Badlands
Today's picture, to fill out the week, is of Badlands.
I had no idea, until I saw them for the first time, just what Badlands were...and I had no idea how beautiful they could be, in a stark and severe sort of way.
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June 24, 2010
Picture of the Day: Orange Spring Mound
Today's picture takes us to Yellowstone, and the Mammoth Hot springs. This is the aptly named Orange Spring Mound.
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June 23, 2010
Picture of the Day: Aster Falls Trail
Today's picture keeps us in Glacier National Park, and shows us the scenic mountain view along the Aster Falls Trail.
As I said yesterday for yesterday's picture, its difficult not to take a picture of something scenic, interesting or gorgeous in Glacier National Park.
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June 22, 2010
Picture of the Day: Two Medicine Lake
This is Two Medicine Lake, the lake near the campground My Friends The Olsons™, Scott's Parents, and of course myself camped in back in 2009. The topography of the area was just beautiful and I have numerous shots of various views of the lake and the mountains.
I definitely need to return someday soon.
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June 21, 2010
Picture of the Day: Sandy Hook Lighthouse
Let's return to my old stomping grounds today, shall we?
Just across a short stretch of water from my hometown of Staten Island, in New Jersey, is the Sandy Hook National Recreation Area. This is its eponymous lighthouse.
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June 18, 2010
Picture of the Day: Frozen Falls
Something cool to end the week, perhaps? How about a frozen waterfall? This is the Upper Falls at Gooseberry Falls, in the chilly frozen gloriousness of a January Minnesota day.
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June 17, 2010
Picture of the Day: Tulips
Today's picture for you is of a beautiful set of Tulips, photographed at the Minnesota Arboretum in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
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June 16, 2010
Picture of the Day: Stegosaurus!
Today's picture for you shows my Paleontology interests. This is a Stegosaurus fossil, photographed at the Royal Terrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta Canada
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June 15, 2010
Picture of the Day: Cameron Lake
Today's picture for you is of Cameron Lake, in Waterton Lakes National Park, in Alberta Canada.
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June 14, 2010
Picture of the Day: Castle Geyser
I am in a bad mood today. So to cheer myself up, here is a picture of my favorite geyser in Yellowstone, and the world. No, its not Old Faithful.
This is Castle Geyser, which erupts less frequently than reliable Old Faithful, but I think its more spectacular, and its cone is far more interesting looking.
In the foreground, my friend Felicia (of My Friends the Olsons™) is a bit unhappy I used her as a scaling factor in my shot!
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June 11, 2010
Picture of the Day: Temperance River with Differential Color
Today's picture is of the Temperance River, North Shore, MN. The twist is the mixing of monochrome and color I used. This might be called "Photoshopping" the image, even though I used Lightroom, not Photoshop, to achieve this.
What I did was to change the photo to monochrome, and then applied a preset that accentuated the color red, and only the color red, in the picture. Thus the nice red bridge and the people , and the reddish cast to certain rocks comes out, but the rest is a very stark monochrome.
What do you think of it?
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June 10, 2010
Picture of the Day: Highway 61 Bridge
Today's picture, taken from the banks of the Cascade River, is of the Hwy 61 Bridge over the River, MN North Shore
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Locals and Tourists maps show where visitors and locals take pics in major cities
You probably have seen these already, but Eric Fischer has gathered Geotagging information on pictures that people have uploaded to flickr to find out where people take photos in major cities. Just as importantly, he has sliced the data to show if its locals or visitors who take the pictures.
Here is Minneapolis for an example:
Plenty more maps of cities are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/
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June 9, 2010
Picture of the Day: Flood Bay Beach
Black Sand beaches?
Minnesota has them, too. Not all of the lakeshore of the North Shore is rocky, and today's picture proves it. Behold the beautiful sandy beach of the Flood Bay Scenic Wayside, North Shore, Minnesota
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June 8, 2010
Picture of the Day: Cross River
Today's picture for you is of the Falls of the Cross River, on the North Shore of Minnesota. These can be seen on the bridge over the River, and is in one of the scenic waysides that I love so much about Minnesota. These falls aren't far from the mouth of the River, and the Cross which I showed to you yesterday.
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June 7, 2010
Picture of the Day: Father Baraga Cross
Today's picture for you is of the Father Baraga Cross, at the mouth of the Cross River on the MN North Shore.
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June 3, 2010
Picture of the Day: Butterfly
While on the North Shore Saturday I was buzzed by butterflies. Today's picture is a closeup of one of them.
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June 2, 2010
Picture of the Day: Temperance River in Monochrome
Today's picture takes us to the narrow, rocky valley of the Temperance River, in the eponymous park, North Shore, MN. A nice monochrome view, looking south and downslope toward Lake Superior.
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May 28, 2010
Picture of the Day: Crabapple Tree
Today's picture for you, to round out the week, is of a crabapple tree in bloom at the Minnesota Arboretum.
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May 27, 2010
Picture of the Day: Lilac close-up
Today's picture for you brings us back to the Minnesota Arboretum. This is a closeup of some Lilac flowers, taken at a spot along the "Lilac walk" at the Minnesota Arbroetum.
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May 26, 2010
Picture of the Day: F Scott Fitzgerald
Today's picture for you is a bust. Well, its a picture of a bust of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The bust is located, naturally enough, in the lobby of the Fitzgerald theater, in St. Paul, Minnesota
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May 25, 2010
Picture of the Day: View from the UBS Forum
Today's picture for you,from the MPR Open House, is their great view up Cedar St. from the patio on the 5th floor.
In the background is the History center (far left) and the State Capitol (center). On the right hand side you can see the wall of Central Presbyterian Church. That spire, though, is actually on the *next* building over, St Louis Church.
One of these days, I need to do an architectural tour of St Paul...
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May 21, 2010
Picture of the Day: Stratosphere Daffodil
And now for a change into color, today's picture for you is from the University of Minnesota's Arboretum in Chanhassen. These are Stratosphere Daffodils, near the entrance to the Arboretum.
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May 20, 2010
Picture of the Day: Koi Pond
Today's picture continues our monochromatic view of the Como Japanese Garden--today,a view of the koi pond and waterfall.
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May 19, 2010
Picture of the Day: Garden Path
Today's picture is one more look at the Como Park Japanese Garden, one of the lovely walking paths within it.
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May 18, 2010
Picture of the Day: Snow Lantern
Today's picture for you is a closeup on a beautiful snow lantern at the Como Ordway Memorial Japanese Garden
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May 17, 2010
Picture of the Day: Palm Dome
Today's picture for you is a view, looking up, at the top of the palm dome, Como Park Conservatory. I like the abstractness of the palm leaves and the skeleton of the dome.
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May 16, 2010
Picture of the Day: Japanese Garden in Monochrome
And in a sunday edition of Picture a Day, a new monochrome shot from the Japanese Garden at Como Park.
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May 13, 2010
Picture of the Day: Badlands Overlook
Today's picture for you is a reprocessed look at the Badlands Overlook in Teddy Roosevelt National Park
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May 12, 2010
Pictures of the Day: Running Eagle Falls
This is Running Eagle Falls, in Glacier National Park. I took a camera .Raw file from my archives and used Lightroom 2 to reprocess it two different ways. To the right is the color version of the reprocessing.
To the left is the monochrome version of the reprocessing.
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May 11, 2010
Picture of the Day: Bighorn Sheep in the Shade
Today's picture for you is of a male bighorn sheep getting some well deserved shade in the trees, Yellowstone National Park
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May 10, 2010
Picture of the Day: The Frog and the Duck
A bit of whimsy for your picture of the day...a duck enjoys a rest on a frog sculpture at the Como Park Conservatory pond.
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May 7, 2010
Picture of the Day: Monochrome Tetons
Today's picture comes from a monochrome re-processing of the Raw file of a 2008 Grand Tetons picture, via lightroom.
This also dovetails with my idea of looking at old images that I blogged about sometime ago. With my new software, I can look at old RAW files and come up with new interpretations of them. I can't change everything of course, and wouldn't, even if I wanted to. But it is interesting to look at old shots in a new way.
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May 6, 2010
Picture of the Day: Stone Arch Bridge in Monochrome
Today's picture for you is of the Stone Arch Bridge of Minneapolis. This picture was done in Monochrome. It wastaken from the "hanging over the river" Endless Bridge portion of the Guthrie Theater.
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May 5, 2010
Picture of the Day: Two Step Falls
Today's picture for you is of Two Step Falls, downstream of the High Falls, in Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota. My initial efforts at this picture were not very good--it took a bout with lightroom to make the picture acceptable.
How do you think I did?
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May 4, 2010
Picture of the Day: Wall Drug
Today's picture for you is a landmark of any trip across South Dakota. The original "tourist trap", even if it does have a chitnzy, old-fashioned sort of charm: Wall Drugstore, in the small town of Wall, South Dakota. Wall Drug is a hop skip and a jump from the west entrance to the Badlands, and not far away from the Black Hills and Mt. Rushmore. I stayed near Wall Drug in 2008 on my visit to the region.
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May 3, 2010
Picture of the Day: St Paul Cathedral in Monochrome
Today's picture for you is of the St Paul Cathedral rendered in Monochrome via Lightroom.
I find it interesting that different monitors (home, work, work laptop) show this picture to varying degrees of quality. I think this might be especially true of monochrome pictures.
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April 30, 2010
Bonus Picture of the Day: Progress of the State Statuary Closeup
Bonus picture of the day, the "Progress of the State" quadriga statuary on the State capitol below the dome.
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Picture of the Day: Minnesota Capitol building and grounds
Today's picture for you is of the Minnesota State Capitol and Grounds. I did a little touchup of the original photo, experimenting with Adobe Lightroom 2 to improve the picture a little.
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April 29, 2010
Picture of the Day: High Falls Closeup
Today's picture for you is a closeup of the High Falls of the Baptism River, Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota
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April 28, 2010
Picture of the Day: St Paul Panorama from the Wabasha St. Bridge
Today's picture for you is a panorama of St. Paul from the middle of the Wabasha Street Bridge at Raspberry Island.
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April 27, 2010
Picture of the Day: Valley of the Gooseberry
Today's picture for you is of the Valley of the Gooseberry River, with the lower and middle falls in the distance. You can really see in this picture that we have had a dry and warm spring. The falls and river, in most years, has a *lot* more water than this.
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April 26, 2010
Picture of the Day: Pine Siskin
Today's picture is for the birds...a Pine siskin, actually, photographed at a bird feeder/birdhouse in Gooseberry Falls State Park
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April 23, 2010
Picture of the Day: Upper Falls of the Gooseberry
And to close out the picture a day for this week, a new picture of the upper falls of the Gooseberry River, in Gooseberry River State Park.
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April 22, 2010
Picture of the Day: High Falls
Today's picture for you is of the High Falls of the Baptism River, Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota. What I did here is to use an Ansel Adams technique to put the waterfall in a high zone, and I used my new polarizing filter to get the dark blue sky in the bargain. What do you think?
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April 21, 2010
Picture of the Day: The Middle Falls of the Gooseberry
Today's picture, from last weekend's adventures, is a new picture of the Middle Falls of the Gooseberry River, Minnesota.
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April 20, 2010
Picture of the Day: The Capital of Minnesota
Another picture dribbled out from my recent expeditions. Today, I present to you the skyline of the capital of Minnesota (as opposed to the capitol, which you saw yesterday).
This is the view from the east, in the early morning.
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April 19, 2010
Picture of the Day: Capitol Building
Your picture for today, to start the week, is a brand new fresh closeup of the center of the Minnesota Capitol building in St. Paul, Minnesota
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April 10, 2010
Reinterpretation of two Photos
Basing off of my previous post about "The Score and the Performance", let's see how that works in practice.
Here is a picture of Fort Yellowstone I took and uploaded last year:
Now, what happens when I take the Raw and post-process it differently? Let's make two new performances out of the score:
Now, let's try another photo:
This is a Valley in Yellowstone. I had to process my original raw file to get this, since the base jpg came out meh. But let's play with this image a bit, shall we?
So, what do you think?
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April 9, 2010
Photography: The Score and the Performance
This article about Ansel Adams and negatives by Jim Hughes got me thinking.
The money quote, the seed of the idea, comes from Ansel Adams talking about the future of his work:
"I've always said that the negative is the score, and the print the performance. I want it to be possible for people in the future to perform my negatives. After all, when I was playing the piano, I was playing the music of people who had been dead for quite a few hundred years, and who had never heard the sounds of my modern piano -- they had written for the harpsichord, the clavichord. I actually feel that in the next few years--it won't be very long--the electronic image is really going to be the medium in photography."
Thinking about this and my own photography and worries about "photoshopping images", I've come to a realization.
My RAW files are the score...and the jpgs I take (be it converted from the RAW or the JPG I get in a "raw+jpg" shot) are the performance of my digital photographs.
So, what I will do here in the next few days is explore this idea. I will go back into some of my RAW files, and reinterpret them, changing settings...giving a "new performance".
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April 2, 2010
Minnehaha Falls
Here in Minnesota we've had an amazing (and in some ways troubling) run of warm, dry weather. Temperatures more suited for late May than March and April,and no rain.
Last weekend, My Friends the Olsons and I took advantage of this weather to go to the south metro. This is a monochrome zoomed in shot of the top of Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis.
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Otterpile!
Here in Minnesota we've had an amazing (and in some ways troubling) run of warm, dry weather. Temperatures more suited for late May than March and April,and no rain.
Last weekend, My Friends the Olsons and I took advantage of this weather to go to the south metro. Here, at the Minnesota Zoo, a bunch of otters decided to "otterpile" each other, and my camera was on the scene...
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March 26, 2010
Flooding River II
A second view of the Mississippi as it reaches major flood stage at Holman Field, St. Paul, MN
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Flooding River I
You probably heard in the news about the Red River flooding near Fargo and Morehead in NW Minnesota.
The Mississippi River, though, has also been flooding, as you can see in this photo I took. I am standing in Indian Mounds Park, in East St. Paul. As you can see from the photo, the airport (which lay across the river from where I am standing) is partially flooded, and would be even more flooded if not for the flood walls (the white structure) erected for the purpose of containing the flood.
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March 12, 2010
Photography: Olsons Home in IR
This is an experiment I did last weekend in IR photography, taking a photograph of the Olsons home, where I now live.
My co-workers called the photograph, which I used for a desktop background one day, "spooky".
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March 5, 2010
When is it Photography and When is it Photoshop?
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/photoshop-and-photography-when-is-it-real/
Last week in the NY Times, David Pogue posed the question that, for purposes of a contest, where does the line get drawn between a photograph and "photoshopping".
A subject I've mused about before...
I've been recently reading Michael Frye's book: Digital Landscape Photography: In the Footsteps of Ansel Adams and the Masters
I've been dying to try out some of the ideas here, but I discovered aspects to Adams' process which has made me re-evaluate what exactly allows a photograph to be still considered a photograph rather than digital art. Certainly his ability to expose and overexpose to highlight things in his pictures is well known. (And that was a motivation for
me reading the book).
But did you know he did extensive dodging and burning during the development process? (The photoshop techniques come from photography, not the other way around). Even more interesting is the fact that Adams did photographic retouching that is common and easier in photoshop.
It turns out that local teenagers had painted white rocks to spell out "LP" in the mountains in this photograph. Adams used a technique on his negative to blot out those letters from the final image.
Is Ansel Adams' work art (and NOT) photography, then?
Me, I think that photography ends and digital art begins when you start adding elements not present in the original scene. For example, if I took a picture of President Obama, and digitally added my mother to the scene, that would be photoshopping. A little dodging and burning, or even combining a couple of images to get high dynamic contrast (which I haven't managed it--no good copy of photoshop) isn't *quite* photoshopping, in my book.
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February 13, 2010
Post Processing Photo fun
Let's talk photography a bit, okay, and post processing.
One of the pictures from my North shore, trip, as you may recall. Nice, huh?
Now, thanks to Amazon, I discovered the work of Harold Davis . He had a small article on Amazon about how he post processed an image using photoshop to make it more dramatic in black and white.
I had to try the technique.
The process was simple:
Take the base image.
Convert the color type to LAB.
Equalize the colors in the image
Convert to B&W
Here is that same image after those simple steps:
What do you think?
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January 31, 2010
Ice on Gooseberry Falls
And to cool you off, here is a picture of some ice at Gooseberry Falls, Gooseberry Falls State Park, Minnesota
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January 4, 2010
Minnesota 44 NYG 7 and my NFL Predictions
Well, I went to see the Giants-Vikings game in person with my former Fed co worker and still friend Kevin Pachl (he has season tickets to the Vikings).
The 44-7 rout was much more fun for him than it was for me. I tried to take a few pictures...
A picture from the romp of the Vikings over my Giants on Sunday
Anyway, with that out of the way, its time for my predictions for the upcoming NFL Playoffs!
Finishing strong is important, and getting that bye week is a mixed blessing. With that in mind, I think that the Vikings will revert to form sometime during the playoffs and crap out, the Saints will continue their skid, and (Heaven help us), the Dallas Cowboys will emerge to win the NFC Championship.
The AFC side is even wilder. I don't trust the Colts not to underachieve again. The Patriots will hopefully get beaten by SOMEONE, and the Jets, Bengals, and Ravens can all be had. So I am going to go with the "sexy pick" of the San Diego Chargers to represent the AFC, and take home its first ever Super Bowl victory.
San Diego 27 Dallas 21
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January 1, 2010
Minneapolis at Sunset
Your first photo for 2010...one of the last I took in 2009...Minneapolis at Sunset on December 31st. I've also decided to be more regular with my photo taking in 2010, and get serious about getting good enough at it so that I could maybe make a few shekels doing it.
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December 30, 2009
Russia
Via my friend Kevin Brady, here is a blog entry on English Russia on the "Seven Wonders of Russia"
It's a mixture of human and natural wonders. Beautiful photographs of all of them. My favorite has to be the Geysers. Did you know that while Yellowstone has most of the Geysers in the world, many of the rest are in Far Eastern Russia?
Anyway, go and see the Seven Wonders. You could probably do a "Seven Wonders" meme for any sort of polity, countries, states, even cities.
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December 23, 2009
Dani at the concert
I took a few pictures at Dani's school concert. The kindergarteners like Dani were only a small part of the program, but Dani was enthusiastic, especially in playing with instruments not intended for her grade...
More concert pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/sets/72157622932548875/detail/
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December 12, 2009
Aphrodite in Monochrome
The MIA in Minneapolis doesn't have a world class Greek and Roman art section. For that, the nearest place for me to go would probably be New York City (unless the Art Institute in Chicago does).
Still, the MIA has a few nice pieces, such as this head of Aphrodite that I photographed in Monochrome.
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December 9, 2009
Dani and the Orchid
Last Sunday, I went to the Conservatory with Felicia, Dani, Katie (one of the Exalted players) and her two children. I took tons of pictures of the kids (not so many of the conservatory as a whole).
Here, we have Dani looking at an Orchid...
More photos are available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/sets/72157622963912280/
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December 8, 2009
My 2009 Best Shot?
Now this is tricky.
Flickr has a group that you can submit precisely one photo to. It's called "Your Best shot 2009". They have been highlighting some of the submitted photos on their blog:
Vanishing Point
Black and White
So, I can add a picture to this pool, too, and maybe if its good enough, get it on one of these blog posts. But out of all the pictures I took and uploaded in 2009, which one is the best?
Any ideas, readers?
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December 6, 2009
NYG 31 Dallas 24 and the rest of my weekend
And my beloved Giants show some life, as they beat (and thus sweep) the Cowboys, 31-24 today.
I watched this at the Olsons, having spent the weekend with them in gaming D&D on Saturday, doing some photography with Felicia in the early afternoon, and then watching the end of the Saints-Redskins, the Giants game, some "Dogs 101", and some of the "Dawn of the Dinosaurs" special on the Discovery channel.
D&D went well, we reached the end of a storyline with the D&D, and we'll resume for a while at the very least with Exalted before returning to it. I've not GMed live in a while, and I am overdue for a chance at a hand at the tiller!
Photography was a mixed bag, we took Dani, our friend Katie, and her kids to Como Park's conservatory and had them pose amongst the plants in the greenhouse. Felicia's camera did not like the heat and humidity but I think I got some decent shots.
The Giants never made it easy, and really, two big plays made the difference in the game, but we'll take the win. Romo had high numbers of passes and yards, but it was in the end, all for naught, and that's what counts for me.
So the Giants win was a pretty nice star in the firmament of my pretty good weekend. What feels even better is the opportunity to go back to work tomorrow.
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November 28, 2009
Castle Cake
This is a Castle shaped chocolate cake that My Friends The Olsons™ made, appropriately enough, on Black Friday. Due to the lack of lighting, in order to avoid using the flash, I had to have the aperture open as far as it would go, providing a shallow depth of field.
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November 22, 2009
The Mystery of the Goat Lick pictures solved!
As you all know, I have an extensive collection of pictures on Flickr.
Now, some of my pictures are pretty good, and some are popular. None are anywhere near as popular, though, as a couple of pictures I took a few years ago in Glacier National Park at a place called the Goat Lick.
In a couple of days, I accumulated thousands of hits for these two pictures. I figured it was a glitch or something. They aren't particular spectacular photos (they are pre-DSLR, too).
Now that its happened again, I've discovered what happened. No glitch.
Apparently these pictures have been Digg-ed on a story about a Mountain Goat. This story is apparently popular, and in the context of the story, someone found my Goat Lick pictures as some of the best of the area. And thus, the spate of visits to my pictures.
Weird, huh?
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November 4, 2009
Badlands Bluff
I've neglected my blog and livejournal lately, especially after my unemployment. Let's have some photographic action goodness, just like I do on Twitter and FB. This is one of tbe bluffs in the North Dakota Badlands, taken in June 2009
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October 27, 2009
Giving my camera a superpower
I've decided to experiment a bit with infraed photography, giving my camera the ability to focus
on near infrared light.
While my pictures aren't anywhere near as good as some you may have seen, take a look...
Here is a base ordinary picture...
Here's what it looks like under false color infrared.
Here is what it looks like under monochrome infrared
And here is what it looks like when run through photoshop
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October 23, 2009
Minnesota Parks
We here in Minnesota have a pretty good set of State Parks. No, they aren't "National Park" class parks (although Minnesota has two NPs, a couple of Monuments and a Waterway too).
It usually costs $5 for a resident to visit a park for a day.
However, Minnesota's DNR has an insane deal: A year pass costs $25.
I have such a year pass and this year have really used it.
This year, I have visited 18 of Minnesota's State Parks:
Grand Portage
Judge Magney
Cascade River (twice)
Temperance River (twice)
Tettegouche
Split Rock Lighthouse
Gooseberry Falls (several times)
Jay Cooke (several times)
Scenic
Itasca
Mille Lacs (twice)
Father Hennepin
Banning
Interstate (several times)
William O'Brien
Fort Snelling
Minneopa
Forestville Mystery Cave
It turns out that out of the 7600 items I have uploaded on Flickr, 1500 of them I have tagged as being in a state park. I think a few of these might be state parks elsewhere, but the vast, vast majority are Minnesota.
All of my Flickr State Park photos
If the weather holds, I will visit my 19th State park of the year, Frontenac, tomorrow to get one last glimpse at fall color.
And some of these parks can be pretty in the winter, too...
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October 3, 2009
Fall Foliage at Interstate State Park
A splash of Fall Color foliage at Interstate State park!
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September 23, 2009
Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway
Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway is one of the most picturesque drives in the entire U.S. Here is some photographic evidence.
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September 14, 2009
Sunset in September in Minnesota
Pretty sky, don't you think?
I used my prime EF 50mm so I didn't need a flash.
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August 16, 2009
The Photocrashing Squirrel
You've probably seen the cute picture of the squirrel who "photocrashed" the photo
taken at Lake Minnewanka (Up in Canada. I've been there!)
It seems this has become a meme with the magic of photoshopping.
As I have said and thought, a lot of good photography can be atttributed to factors which are purely serendipitous. The original photo is a perfect example of that.
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June 28, 2009
2009 Vacation Photos!
Finally, after a lot of work, I have completed choosing, editing and uploading my pictures from my June vacation to Yellowstone and points beyond.
I uploaded a total of 633 photos from my trip. The entire collection is here.
But don't despair if that sounds like too much. Taking the excellent advice given to me by Carl on my last photographic venture, I have chosen 50 representative pictures from my trip. They may not necessarily be the best, but they give the width and breadth of my experience. So why not take a look at those?
The Highlights from my trip are available here
So, go, enjoy, and let me know what you think.
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June 22, 2009
Mama, they took my Kodochrome away
Kodak announced today that it will stop selling the film after 74 years on the market:
Sales of KODACHROME Film, which became the world's first commercially successful color film in 1935, have declined dramatically in recent years as photographers turned to newer KODAK Films or to the digital imaging technologies that Kodak pioneered. Today, KODACHROME Film represents just a fraction of one percent of Kodak's total sales of still-picture films...
As part of a tribute to KODACHROME Film, Kodak will donate the last rolls of the film to George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, which houses the world's largest collection of cameras and related artifacts.
Paul Simon is wrong about one thing though. Everything does NOT always look worse in black and white. I like some of my monochromatic shots, thank you.
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June 21, 2009
June 17, 2009
Paul at the Roosevelt Arch at the North Entrance to Yellowstone
Standing in front of the Roosevelt Arch at the North Entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
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May 25, 2009
A relatively dry Minnehaha Falls, May 2009
This is Minnehaha Falls, as taken on Sunday, May 24 2009.
As you have liked noticed from previous pictures of this waterfall in the heart of the city, this part of Minneapolis is very much in a drought.The waterfall should not look this dry for another couple of months at least.
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May 23, 2009
Gooseberry Falls--What a difference 2 months makes!
What a difference 2 months in Minnesota makes!
On the left, Gooseberry Falls as I photographed it on Feb 8,2009
On the right, Gooseberry Falls as I photographed it on my trip up the North Shore on April 24,2009
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Bagpipers at the Scottish Fair
Bagpipers at the Scottish Fair in Minnesota
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Caber Tossing
Caber Tossing--the sport as exciting for the fans as it is for the participants.
I took this photo at the Minnesota Scottish Fair.
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May 17, 2009
The power of post processing
I like the idea of taking images as they are, rather than "doctoring them" to show stuff that isn't there.
Still, I have been persuaded to experiment a bit with the .RAW format on my DSLR and adjust images in software to sharpen stuff up.
On my recent trip with the Olsons to the Scottish Fair, I set the camera to take "RAW + JPG", allowing me to have the best of both worlds.
So here is a picture of Dani in a cutout, in the jpg form:
And here she is after I cropped and adjusted and played with the RAW image in DPP and exported it to jpg.
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May 8, 2009
May 5, 2009
They Like me, they really like me
One of the producers of Minnesota Public Radio, Julia Schrenkler, has a blog on the MPR site. She ran into
my photos and liked them enough to post a link to them on the blog:
A little bit of egoboo!
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May 3, 2009
North Shore Photo "Sampler Pack"
Thanks to Carl for suggesting this.
500 pictures is a lot to get through. So to make it easier for you all to get a sense of my adventure, I created a "sampler pack" of photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/sets/72157617574273909/
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Photography: My North Shore Vacation Photos!
Now they can be seen. My photos from my North Shore Vacation are now up and available!
A few select samples:
See the entire collection:
My Mosaic of Pictures on Flickr
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March 30, 2009
Shattered Visage
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.
Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away
Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Photography by Paul Weimer
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February 8, 2009
The Ice Fishers
One more picture...this is of the Ice Fishers I met at the French River.
The fish were not biting, and they weren't happy about that.
More Pictures Available Here
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Middle Falls of the Gooseberry
This is the Middle Falls of the Gooseberry River, which you have seen in a number of my pictures. This is what it looks like in the dead of winter, completely frozen over.
More Photos available here!
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Lake Superior Shoreline
Near the French River outlet on the North shore, I got some good shots of the Lake Superior Shoreline, frozen out for a reasonable distance. As you can see from the photo, I am actually standing on the lake at this point. (The ice fishers seen in a couple of photographs are behind me)
More Photos available here!
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Ice as Modern Art?
Ice on Lake Superior which has broken and wind carved into Modern Art.
More Photos available here!
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December 7, 2008
Winter is Here
The Starks in GRRM's Game of Thrones series say "Winter is coming."
My friends and readers (who live mostly in warmer climes)--as far as Minnesota is concerned, Winter is Here.
It's cold, but its awfully pretty.
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November 23, 2008
James Hill House
Once it was the largest private residence in MN. Now its a museum. This is the James J Hill House in St. Paul, MN.
It was a dreary day and perhaps this does not allow the house to be seen in its best light.Since flash was not allowed, my interior shots are not very good, either. But you can look at them, if you like.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/sets/72157609828116742/
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October 13, 2008
Vacation Photos 2008
Okay, I took way too many photos.
In point of fact, I uploaded over 1000 photos from my trip to South Dakota...
And now you, gentle viewer, can see them all, or a portion that might interest you:
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Sioux Falls Waterfall
This is one of the Waterfalls in Falls Park, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
(This was my penultimate stop before my car started acting up)
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Nicollet Expedition carvings
This is the inscription made by Joseph Nicollet and his expedition in 1838 at Pipestone. They were the first US Government expedition of explorers to reach the area.
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October 11, 2008
C-45 Expeditor
This is a C-45 Expeditor at the South Dakota Air and Space Museum
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October 5, 2008
Vacation Photos Day 5: Minuteman Control Room at Delta-09
On Day 5, I went through the Badlands, North and South Units, and also to the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. This is a picture of the control room where the two officers who controlled the missiles would, mostly, be very bored waiting for instructions or messages.
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September 30, 2008
Vacation Photos Day 4: Me at Devil's Tower
On Day 4 I headed west to Devil's Tower and then headed down to Jewel Cave. This is one of the very very few pictures of me on my entire trip.This is me at Devil's Tower National Monument.
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September 28, 2008
Vacation Photos Day 3: Mt. Rushmore
On Day Three of my adventures, my adventures were in stone: Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, and Wind Cave. This is the classic photo view of the famous Gutzon Borglum carved Mt. Rushmore. I took the loop and got a lot of pictures around the mountain at different angles, and even found a turn off on the road west that allows a profile of George.
However, I thought it was most appropriate to choose the classic look here for my picture for day 3
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Vacation Photos Day 2: Spearfish Falls
I've been accused of loving waterfalls. No bad thing in my book.
As you might have heard from the phone post and other methods, on my second day of the trip, my car battery died not long after a climb on a path in the Badlands. Once I got a new battery, the auto parts place strongly recommended that I drive for at least an hour.
So rather than "stop and go" driving in the badlands, I got myself on the highway and drove more than an hour west. I found myself in Spearfish, South Dakota, at the head of the Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway. I naturally took pictures, especially once I learned there were waterfalls to see...like Spearfish Falls, as seen here!
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September 27, 2008
Vacation Photos Day 1: Badlands
I am slowly choosing and uploading pictures from my vacation.
This is a picture from day one, when I took the Badlands Loop on the way to Wall.
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September 14, 2008
Pictures from the Mississippi River Cruise
Few of my night shots actually came out decently because of the lack of a tripod, but I took plenty of pictures on the cruise before it was too dark to see well. This is on our way back, my workplace, the Federal Reseve, and the Hennepin Avenue Bridge. More pictures, including of the new I-35 W bridge are available here.
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September 7, 2008
Pictures from the RenFaire
A picture from my 2008 visit to the MN Renaissance Faire
More pictures available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/sets/72157607166700345/
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August 17, 2008
The Placid Rum River in Monochrome
Although I didn't intend specifically to take pictures on World Photography Day today, I did go take pictures in Peninsula Park, a small city park up in Anoka, MN where the Rum River meets the Mississippi.
Rife with historical significance as well as geohydrological, I went around the park and took pictures. :)
More pictures from the park are available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/sets/72157606790748563/
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August 9, 2008
Dragon Gate
A pair of dragons form the gates to a private road in Blaine, MN. I've never seen the house at the end of this road, and I've never met the owners, but these gates have been here since I've moved up here.
More pictures of the dragon gates:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/tags/dragongates/
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July 2, 2008
Picture a Day 07-02-08: Evening Cloudscape
Another seriously gorgeous slide toward night for the skies of Minnesota.
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July 1, 2008
Picture a Day 07-01-08: Bird on a Wire
A bird pictured on a wire near my apartment building
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June 30, 2008
Picture a Day 06-30-08: Copper
A piece of elemental copper that I bought in Canada during my trip to Alberta.
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June 29, 2008
Picture a Day 06-29-08: Lino Lakes Water Tower
A Water Tower in Lino Lakes, MN. I particularly like the font of the lettering on this one.
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Bear Fight at the Minnesota Zoo
And now its time for pictures from my trip last week to the MN Zoo. This is a picture I snapped of two bears at the new Grizzly Coast exhibit wrestling with each other.
More pictures from the zoo available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/sets/72157605880350561/detail/
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June 28, 2008
Picture a day 06-28-08: Around the Table
Food and relaxation at the Olsons table, after a session of Exalted.
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June 27, 2008
Picture a Day 06-27-08: Weather Vane
A weather vane on a roof near my apartment building.
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June 26, 2008
Picture a Day 06-26-08: Early Morning on the Hennepin Avenue Bridge
A look at the Hennepin Avenue Bridge in the early morning.
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June 25, 2008
Picture a Day 06-25-08: Basilica Ad
An ad for the yearly Cities 97 Basilica Block Party
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June 24, 2008
Yoda and friends
I finally organized my pictures from the science museum trip I took on Saturday, highlighted by my visit to the Star Wars exhibit.
More pictures available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/sets/72157605801895075/
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Picture a Day 06-24-08: Metro Transit Ad
A strange Metro Transit Ad at the 95th Avenue Park and Ride in Blaine, MN.
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June 23, 2008
Picture a Day 06-23-08: Dandelion
A closeup of a dandelion.
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June 22, 2008
Picture a Day 06-22-08: Bear Rumble
The two male bears at the new Grizzly Coast exhibit at the Minnesota Zoo get into a bit of a rough and tumble.
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June 20, 2008
Picture a Day 06-20-08: Cloudscape in Lino Lakes
Cloudscape in Lino Lakes, Mn
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June 19, 2008
Picture a Day 06-19-08: Lost in a Good Book
Felicia's son Damion flips through his new copy of Exalted: Lunars
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June 18, 2008
Picture a Day 06-18-08: Downtown Minneapolis in the Early AM
A view of a bit of Minneapolis in the early morning.
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June 17, 2008
Picture a Day 06-17-08: Greenery and Clouds
A shot at some greenery and cloud formations not far from my apartment.
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June 16, 2008
Pictures from the North Shore
I've chosen and uploaded my pictures from the North Shore trip I took on Father's day.
This picture, one of my favorites, is a monochrome shot of the Upper Falls of the Gooseberry River in Gooseberry Falls State Park.
More pictures from my expedition, including pictures of the lake, and even long distance shots of Split Rock Lighthouse are available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/sets/72157605630176628/
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June 15, 2008
Picture a Day 06-15-08: Fifth Falls
The elusive and not as well known "Fifth falls" at Gooseberry Falls State Park, on the North Shore in Minnesota.
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June 14, 2008
Picture a Day 06-14-08: Closeup of the Water Tower
Showing off the power of my new zoom lens on the water tower.
By comparison this is a shot of that tower with my standard lens standing in about the same place:
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June 13, 2008
Picture a Day 06-13-08: Borders
A picture of the Borders store in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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June 12, 2008
Picture a Day 06-12-08: Scott and Dani on the backyard Playset
Scott and Dani take time out from playing to pose for a picture.
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June 11, 2008
Picture a Day 06-11-08: The Old Fed Building
Before it moved to its current home in 1997, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis occupied a few floors in this building in downtown Minneapolis.
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June 10, 2008
Picture a Day 06-10-08: Bamboo Betty's
Bamboo Betty's, one of the two local watering holes.
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June 9, 2008
Picture a Day 06-09-08: Stella Scooter
Intersection signs of the closest corner to my apartment building.
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June 8, 2008
Picture a Day 06-09-08: Stella Scooter
A Stella Scooter spotted in a shopping mall in Falcon Heights. (The same one where the Source Comics and Games is located)
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June 7, 2008
Picture a Day 06-07-08: Dani drinking
In a lighter moment during Game day, Dani drinks a drink pouch.
This was before she and Katie's son went to play out in the street while we were distracted with the game.
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June 6, 2008
Picture a Day 06-06-08: Tree in the Stormy Wind
A cool wind blows this afternoon against a cloudy background across a tree, and I was struck by the tree's reaction and contrast to it enough to snap a photo.
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June 5, 2008
June 4, 2008
Picture a Day 06-04-08: Mississippi River Sign
The new National Park Sign marking the Mississippi River crossing of the Hennepin Avenue Bridge. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is visible in the rear right.
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June 3, 2008
Picture a Day 06-03-08: A political car
I couldn't resist taking a snapshot of this car emblazoned so boldly with its political/social statement on its rear windshield
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June 2, 2008
Picture a Day 06-02-08: Dawn in the Park and Ride
Dawn comes to the North Twin Cities Metro.
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June 1, 2008
Picture a Day 06-01-08: Statue
And so we start June with a picture of a statue of a deer in a shopping center near my apartment, in Blaine.
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May 31, 2008
Pictures from the Stone Arch Bridge Area
The beautiful Guthrie theater. Atter crossing the Stone Arch Bridge, I climbed up and went to that observation platform you see sticking out. It's called "The endless bridge"
This is the theater that I tried to, unsuccessfully, get tickets to see Ian McKellen play King Lear last year.
More picture from the Stone Arch bridge are available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/sets/72157605357677645/
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Picture a Day 05-31-08: Stone Arch Bridge in Monochrome
Taken from the "Endless Bridge" at the Guthrie, a Monochromatic look at the Stone Arch Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
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May 30, 2008
Picture a Day 05-30-08: Rebel Rebel
My old camera takes a picture of my new one.
(BTW, my old camera is slowly dying. It's having problems with its lens opening)
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May 29, 2008
Picture a Day 05-29-08: Loaner Car
A Dodge Avenger, the car loaned to me by my dealer while they work on my taillight and brakes.
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May 28, 2008
Picture a Day 05-28-08: The Wallpaper beneath
A tear in the wallpaper in my apartment building reveals another layer beneath it.
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May 27, 2008
Picture a Day 05-27-08: Lions Field
Lions Field in Circle Pines,MN
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May 26, 2008
Picture a Day 05-26-08: Me in the Japanese Garden
A picture of me in front of the Tea House in the Japanese Gardens of the Como Park Conservatory in St Paul, MN.
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May 25, 2008
Picture a Day 05-25-08: Hailstorm
A storm, with hail, blows through Blaine. This is part of the storm that eventually spawned the tornado to the east in Hugo, and a (brief but no damage) tornado to the west in Coon Rapids.
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May 24, 2008
Picture a Day 05-24-08: Minnehaha Falls
I decided to take my camera to Minnehaha Park. You will recall I took pictures there with my digicam in Sept 2006.
One thing you will notice in this picture , the water level in the creek, and thus in the waterfall, is pretty high.
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May 23, 2008
Picture a Day 05-23-08: Tree
One of the trees near my apartment building
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May 22, 2008
Picture a Day 05-22-08: Pot
A plot with flowers in it at the entrance to my apartment building
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May 21, 2008
Picture a Day 05-21-08: Fire Hydrant
Sometimes called a fire plug, just a simple fire hydrant is our photographic subject du jour
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May 20, 2008
Picture a Day 05-20-08: Dandelions
A close up of some dandelions in the grass near my apartment building
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Picture a Day Non Photo 05-19-08
In my race for power and glory yesterday (and some inclement weather), I didn't take any pictures. While I won't have any discrete Picture a Days posted while on the trip, and I might not have any in the last part of this week as I get packed for said trip, I still missed taking a photo.
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May 17, 2008
Picture a Day 05-17-08: Bird at the Feeder
A colorful bird whose species escapes me stops at one of the Olsons bird feeders during game day.
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May 16, 2008
Picture a Day 05-16-08: Cloudscape
The clouds were beautiful this evening, so I pulled out the DSLR and got some practice with some shots of the sky.
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May 15, 2008
Picture a Day 05-15-08: Pepper plant
The Olsons love to grow peppers on the sill of their deck. This is one of their pepper plants, up close and personal.
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May 14, 2008
Picture a Day 05-14-08: River and Bridge
Looking upriver from the Hennepin Avenue Bridge at the railroad bridge just upstream.
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May 13, 2008
Picture a Day 05-13-08: Fleet Farm
Still under construction, a new Fleet Farm at I-35W and Lexington in Blaine, MN, not far from my apartment building.
Fleet Farm can be thought of as an agricultural themed Walmart-like superstore.
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May 11, 2008
Picture a Day 05-11-08: Tree on the Lakeshore
A slowly budding tree on the shore of Lake Josephine, in the Twin Cities North Metro.
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May 10, 2008
Picture a Day 05-10-08: The Kitten who vomited on me
Katie, from the Amber game I am in (and Exalted game I run) poses with her brand new kitten Leia. My introduction to Leia, unfortunately, resulted in the poor kitten throwing up on my shirt.
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May 9, 2008
Picture a Day 05-09-08: Grain Belt Beer Sign
A landmark of Minneapolis, the Grain Belt Beer Sign stands on Nicollet Island.
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May 8, 2008
Picture a Day 05-08-08: Meet the Neighbors
With the DSLR, I couldn't resist taking a picture of a woman, her three kids, and their little red wagon.
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May 7, 2008
Picture a Day 05-07-08: Dejected Quest
The Olsons dog looks unhappy that the chinese food Felicia brought for us is not being shared by her.
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May 6, 2008
4 DSLR pictures
The four pictures I took, arranged by focal length.
(I love Corel Draw, it made it so easy to arrange these into a table)
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Picture a Day 05-06-08: Water Tower Experiment 4
I experimented with the DSLR this afternoon, taking a picture from the same spot, using auto focus mode, adjusting the focal length each time.
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May 5, 2008
Picture a Day 05-05-08: Meat
Browning some beef and pork in preparation for making chili tomorrow at a potluck at work.
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May 4, 2008
Picture a Day 05-04-08: Roads and Boats
Steve of the indiegamers makes a move in Roads and Boats. I finished third out of five in the game. Sadly, this is *better* than I usually perform in board games with the group.
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May 3, 2008
Picture a Day 05-03-08: Quest and Dani
Dani poses with Quest at the top of the stairs in the Olson household.
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May 2, 2008
Picture a Day 05-02-08: That's a Knife
My Calaphon chef's knife.
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May 1, 2008
Picture a Day 05-01-08: Felicia
With my new DSLR, a picture of Felicia, with her laptop
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April 30, 2008
Picture a Day 04-30-08: Fern
A study of a small plant in a rock "garden"
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April 29, 2008
Picture a Day 04-29-08: City Park
A small playground in a city park in Lexington, MN
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April 28, 2008
Picture a Day 04-28-08: New Bus
My bus route got to have one of the brand new Buses bought by the transit system today. Less than a 1000 miles on this beauty.
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April 27, 2008
Picture a Day 04-27-08: Greek Fast Food
Dino's, a small chain of Greek fast food in the Twin Cities. This is the branch in Falcon Heights, across the street from the strip mall that contains the Friendly Local Gaming Store, The Source Comics and Games.
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April 26, 2008
Picture a Day 04-26-08: Late Season Snow
Evidence of Late Season (April 26th) snow in the Twin Cities, outside my apartment building.
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April 24, 2008
Picture a Day 04-24-08: Gloomy Spring Day
A gloomy, drippy spring day near my apartment building. Suits my mood.
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April 23, 2008
Picture a Day 04-23-08: Second Avenue
Second Avenue (at the intersection of 4th Street) in downtown Minneapolis, looking South.
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April 22, 2008
Picture a Day 04-22-08: Archery Range
An Archery Range at Marsden Lake in Ramsey county, Minnesota
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April 21, 2008
Picture a Day 04-21-08: Dairy Queen
A true sign of spring in Minnesota...Dairy Queens are open again. (Yes, they close for the the winter here)
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April 20, 2008
Picture a Day 04-20-08: Ammonite
For my picture of the day today, I decided to show off one of my Ammonite fossils. I got this on the Canadian Rockies trip, when we stopped at Kehoe's Agate Shop in Montana.
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April 19, 2008
Picture a Day 04-19-08: Theater
The AMC Theater in the Rosedale Shopping Mall, Rosedale Minnesota.
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April 18, 2008
Picture a Day 04-18-08: Bridge
A look at the Hennepin Avenue bridge, looking Southbound from the northern end.
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April 17, 2008
Picture a Day 04-17-08: Dani and the Recorder
Dani poses for the camera with her recorder, in Scott's car.
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Picture a Day 04-16-08: ING Bank
Another mostly failed experiment with a "night shot", this is the online bank ING's HQ in Minneapolis.
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April 15, 2008
Picture a Day 04-15-08: Pond and Water Tower
View across a pond near the Circle Pines City Hall, looking at a copse of trees and the Circle Pines Water Tower.
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April 14, 2008
Picture a Day 04-14-08: Water Towers
Two Water Towers, one for the city of Blaine (foreground) and one for the City of Lexington (background)
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April 13, 2008
Picture a Day 04-13-08: Melting Snow and Ice
Picture a Day April 13th: Some lingering snow and ice in the parking lot of a Coon Rapids shopping center near Best Buy.
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April 12, 2008
Picture a Day 4-12-08: Dani and Quest
Dani peeks around the corner as I try to take a picture of Quest, the Olsons' yellow Labrador Retriever.
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April 11, 2008
Picture a Day 4-11-08: Library
The Central Library in downtown Minneapolis on Hennepin Avenue.
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April 10, 2008
Picture a Day 4-10-08: Precipitation on 129th Ave
Snow/sleet/rain falling outside the Olsons home on 129th Ave.
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April 9, 2008
Picture a Day 04-09-08: Intersection
The Intersection of Lexington Avenue and Lake Drive in Lexington/Circle Pines, MN.
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April 8, 2008
Picture a Day 4-08-08: (Not Fighting) City Hall
Although my mail is addressed to Circle Pines, technically I live in Lexington, Minnesota. This is the back of the very modest City Hall building.
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April 7, 2008
Picture a Day 04-07-08 Disembarkation
Passengers disembarking from the Express Bus at the 95th Avenue and I-35W Park & Ride in Blaine
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April 6, 2008
Picture a Day 04-06-08: Playing Underground
Shane, Chris and Steve of the IndieGamers ponder the Underground board game map on a rainy day at the Source.
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April 5, 2008
Picture a Day 4-5-08: Dani blows bubbles
Another Dani picture for a Picture a Day.
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April 4, 2008
Picture a Day 4-4-08: Bus Stop in the early morning
Showing I have a lot to learn, a somewhat blurry picture of the 95th Avenue Park and Ride bus stop in Blaine, MN. This is before dawn and the stabilization of holding the camera for the time needed for the flash and fstop to work were not great.
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April 3, 2008
Picture a Day 4-3-08: Setting Sun
The Picture a Day for April 3rd is the setting sun, setting over a field near the Olsons' house in Blaine.
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April 2, 2008
Picture a Day 04-02-08: Hallway in B&W
Picture of the Day today is the hallway outside my apartment door, in Black and White.
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April 1, 2008
Picture a day 4-1-08: Snowy Tree
Picture a Day for April 1st is not an April's Fool--its a little tree outside my apartment building.
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March 31, 2008
Picture a Day 03-31-08: Snowy Street
The Picture a Day today is the street outside my apartment building, during our snowfall today.
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March 30, 2008
Picture A Day March 30th: Library
My picture for March 30th: A Library in Blaine, Minnesota on County Rd 242
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March 29, 2008
Picture a Day 03-29-08: Highway 35W
This picture of the day is a B&W picture of Southbound Highway 35W at exit 36 in Minnesota.
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March 28, 2008
Picture a Day 03-28-08: Train
The Picture a Day for today is of a Train parked on a train line near the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. This is a pay parking lot near the Bank that I often use when I drive into work.
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March 27, 2008
Picture a Day 03-27-08: Dani
My Picture a Day for today is appropriate since I commonly visit the Olsons on Thursday evenings. This is their daughter, Dani.
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March 26, 2008
Picture of the Day 03-26-08: Window View
I've decided to take a picture a day, every day. Its to improve my skills, practice, experiment, and show you all my world.
This first POTD is the view out of one of my windows in my apartment.
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December 22, 2007
They Like my photo!
This picture of mine has been selected for inclusion
in the 4th Schmap guide to Minneapolis!
http://www.schmap.com/minneapolis/home/#p=226606&i=226606_6.jpg
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July 8, 2007
The Federal Reserve Bank
Where I work!
(Actually, this is the tower portion. I work in the other half of the building, not seen...)
Another picture from my set of pictures taken yesterday. I was careful when I took pictures of work to take pictures of things that were public. I did not take pictures of the entrance, the guards or anything restricted. I just wanted to show the architecture.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvstin/sets/72157600700986349/
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