Foshay Tower – Minneapolis, Minnesota

My family and I visited the Foshay Museum (on the top floor of the Foshay Tower) in March. We had planned to go on a Sunday (so we wouldn’t have to rush). The weather gods were not with us, as it was a windy and rainy day. Regardless, we went. After viewing the exhibits I…

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…

Shanghai – China

The Bund is an area of Huangpu District in central Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.  The area centers on a section of Zhongshan Road within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing Pudong, in the easstern part of Huangpu District.  The Bund usually refers to the…

Amtrak Depot – Red Wing, Minnesota

These images were captured in Red Wing on March 20th standing just north of the Amtrak Depot.  It was raining heavily and stopped briefly.  The sky looked ominous and I thought I may be able to get some dramatic cloud effects by doing HDR images.  The image of the station was taken facing the north…

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…

Monterey Bay Aquarium – Monterey, California

This March my wife and I traveled to California to visit our daughter and son-in-law in Los Angeles.  However, instead of traveling directly to LA we flew to San Francisco, and then drove down to LA stopping several days in Monterey to visit the aquarium and some of the magnificent coastal areas south of the…