Urban Outing

Last month I got an unsolicited email from someone in Texas. It said he was coming to Minneapolis to video an event at Orchestra Hall and he was bringing his camera gear.  He was interested in taking skyline shots of the cities he visited and wanted any information about locations in the twin cities to…

Minneapolis Skyline

The above two images of the Minneapolis skyline were taken at sunset to take advantage of the brilliant reflections created by the setting sun off of some of the buildings.  Each offers a slightly different composition with different lighting contrasts. The first image conveys sunset tones (blue/purple) in contrast to the building reflections.  The second…

Bow River – Banff, Canada

I took this photo on July 23, 2008.  I  exposed three images at -1, 0, +1 f-stops thinking I would need to do an HDR conversion sometime later. This particular shot was made with a Canon 40D using a Tamron 28-75 2.8 lens set at 47mm @ 1/125th of a second at ISO 100. The…

Wind Turbines – Iowa

I travel through northern Iowa on I35 several times a year. There are two wind farms visible from the freeway, one around mile marker 208 and the other around mile marker 152. I have been looking for an opportunity to photograph the turbines for a long time and recently the light and timing fell into…