Category Archives: Places
Minnesota Photo Project: Week 9
Minnesota Photo Project: Week 7
And we’re back (to some degree). Vision is a fleeting thing and the past few months have been strange with the changes around here. The employment front was very busy with a project that took up most of my time (hence, no photography) and while that is over, I’ve found that I needed to make time for photography. It’s important to me so therefore, time must be carved out to work on my craft. It’s been a process to figure out what stays and what goes in order to ensure adequate time is allowed to pursue photography.
I found this tree in Otsego Park last week during our (hopefully) last snowfall. I had scouted this location out before and was hoping for a chance of some fresh snow, a beautiful blue sky, and some amazing clouds. I got the snow I wanted but had to work with a drab gray sky. The graduated filter in Lightroom came in handy.
Exposure: 1/200 sec, Aperture: f/7.1, Focal Length: 47mm, ISO 100
Minnesota Photo Project: Week 6
A couple of Saturday’s ago, we bundled the kiddos up and headed out to the Winter Carnival in Saint Paul, MN. It was an enjoyable time as a family and as a photographer as Saint Paul and the carnival offered up various interesting items to photograph. This photograph is of the windows from the Landmark Center. I have plenty more to share of this building and I can’t wait to get back down there with several different lenses and a tripod.
Exposure: 1/2000 sec, Aperture: f/2.8, Focal Length: 50mm, ISO 200
Minnesota Photo Project: Week 5
A bit delayed on getting this out as a few other projects have kept me busy (and away from my camera.) While walking around the Otsego Regional Park, I noticed how this particular rock was framed by the trees and it seem an interesting composition to experiment a bit with. I was pretty lucky with the birds.
Exposure: 1/640 sec, Aperture: f/2.8, Focal Length: 50mm, ISO 200
Minnesota Photo Project: Week 4
I spent a couple of hours last week hanging out at Otsego Regional Park just walking around and observing. This bit of brush with a drop of snow perched precariously on top caught my attention. I’ll have some further thoughts on the experience later this week.
Exposure: 1/250 sec, Aperture: f/2.8, Focal Length: 50mm, ISO 200
52 Week Project: Week 49
We’ve gotten a little bit of snow recently so I went out to my favorite barn to see what it looked like (more on that later). If you turn 180 degrees from the barn, you get a nice little pond that with the ice and snow turned out to be a pretty interesting photographic subject.
Exposure: 1/200 sec, Aperture: f/11, Focal Length: 28mm, ISO 100
52 Week Project: Week 45
This abandoned building is located outside of Wakefield, MI on M-28 on the way to Bergland. Nature has taken control of it now as most of the windows have branches growing through them.
Exposure: 1/60 sec, Aperture: f/7.1, Focal Length: 75mm, ISO 100
52 Week Project: Week 44
52 Week Project: Week 43
The leaves in the U.P. of Michigan were changing color in late September which provided ample opportunity for interesting subjects to photograph. I like how the dead trees split up the scene.
Exposure: 1/250 sec, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 135mm, ISO 100
52 Week Project: Week 42
Two weeks ago, I was in Nebraska for work. As you travel west of Lincoln on I-80, there is an grouping of abandoned buildings on the north side of the road that just beg to be photographed. Alas, there isn’t a great angle from the road to shoot these and it’s private property (it looks abandoned) so I don’t have the opportunity to walk around and spend time photographing these interesting subjects.
Not wanting to leave empty handed, I drove around and found this gravel road with corn standing on both sides. While it wasn’t completely interesting, I found getting low to the ground and shooting towards the sun and producing some lens flare through the corn stalks produced some interesting photographs. (It was my first trip with my new camera and this is my first picture on the blog with it. Getting new gear can be fun but now I’m back to figuring out where everything is. Looks like I’ll need to spend quality time with the manual.)
I’m still hoping though to have an opportunity to photograph those buildings on my next trip.
Exposure: 1/400 sec, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 135mm, ISO 100
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