Alan's Photoblog

I don’t know why but the first thought that came into my head with this image was “the clouds look angry.” This was after a decent storm had rolled through the eastern suburbs of the Twin Cities.

Exposure: 1/160 sec, Aperture: f/8.0, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 800

Chalk this image up to seeing something that looked potentially like an interesting image but ended up being rather ordinary. I saw these bales while driving through North Dakota and at one particular angle from the road, they looked like an advancing army over the field. For whatever reason, I couldn’t replicate that angle for [...]

I work in the insurance field (safety & risk management) and sometimes I see things that make me shake my head. FWIW, this picture has zero photographic value other than using it in a training presentation (in a nice, mocking way of course) and I needed a filler for today’s image.

Exposure: 1/2000 sec, Aperture: f/5.6, [...]

The city of Devils Lake, ND had hanging baskets of flowers on every light post throughout town. All of them were taller then me so it was a nice break to take pictures of flowers looking at or up at them rather than the usual down shot.

Exposure: 1/250 sec, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 135 [...]

Found this truck sitting in a field while in North Dakota this summer. The sky was pretty boring so I changed the Luminance a bit using Lightroom.

Exposure: 1/125 sec, Aperture: f/11, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 200

Cruising through North Dakota this summer and shot some random clouds. I ramped up the Blue saturation of the sky in Lightroom.

Exposure: 1/1000 sec, Aperture: f/11, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 200