Category Archives: Places
52 Week Project: Week 17
Went out one day a few weeks ago to hang out in downtown Anoka, MN with a buddy to shoot whatever we could find. This tunnel/steps combination caught my eye and ended up as one of my favorites of the day. I originally was going to go B&W but ended up using the Punch preset in Lightroom 2 instead.
Exposure: 1/640 sec, Aperture: f/3.5, Focal Length: 28mm, ISO 200
52 Week Project: Week 16
I took in my first game at Target Field last Thursday and it is a rather impressive baseball stadium. My allegiance will always be for the Brewers but I do cheer for the Twins since they are in the American League and it doesn’t interfere with the Brew Crew (except when they play each other then it’s Go Brewers!).
I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to just walk around and take pictures (I did manage 75 but mostly of the field) but I was able to practice some attempts at motion blur. Not spectacular but it was something I hadn’t spent much time doing up to this point so I took advantage of the unsuspecting crowd.
Exposure: 1.0 sec, Aperture: f/22, Focal Length: 35mm, ISO 200
52 Week Project: Week 15
This American flag is part of the Veterans Memorial Park located in Belle Plaine, MN. I really wanted a picture of the UH-1H Iroquois “Huey” helicopter but couldn’t get a good angle for the shot.
Not wanting to leave this hallowed place empty handed, I looked around and saw the wind whipping the flags around. I took a few shots, walked around and this happened.
Exposure: 1/4000 sec, Aperture: f/3.5, Focal Length: 28mm, ISO 200
52 Week Project: Week 10
52 Week Project: Week 7
Not sure why but I like this picture of a random field north of Bismarck, North Dakota.
Exposure: 1/320 sec, Aperture: f/11, Focal Length: 135mm, ISO 200
52 Week Project: Week 6
I had to run to the post office one day and grabbed my camera as I headed out the door. I drove around my neighborhood and the surrounding developments looking for something interesting to shoot. The combination of the moon and the water tower behind the trees was at least semi-interesting. 
Exposure: 1/1250 sec, Aperture: f/7.1, Focal Length: 28mm, ISO 400
52 Week Project: Week 5
During our BWCA trip last year we had stayed at Temperance River State Park on the first night. I got up early and took a few pictures of the sunrise looking out over Lake Superior. It was very awe inspiring to say the least.
Exposure: 1/800 sec, Aperture: f/11.0, Focal Length: 28mm, ISO 200
52 Week Project: Week 3
52 Week Project: Week 1: Seven Falls
As part of my 2010 goals, I’m committing myself to posting a minimum of one picture a week. I’m not going to throw up a picture just to ensure I have a post up but rather display what I think are my better images in order to garner feedback. I look at too many of my images of 2009 and go “what was I thinking?”
I took this in August of 2008 while on a family vacation in Colorado at Seven Falls. Ironically, the actual pictures I took of the falls are pretty unremarkable so you get rocks and sky instead. I boosted the saturation of the sky with LR2.
Exposure: 1/250 sec, Aperture: f/10.0, Focal Length: 30 mm, ISO 200
View From the BWCA Campsite
This summer I was offered the opportunity to go canoeing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) for an extended weekend with some friends. Having never done anything remotely like this ever, I was a little apprehensive about the whole thing (let alone how to protect my camera equipment.)
Nonetheless, the trip was amazing and we are already planning for next year. I ended up taking about 300 pictures which in retrospect, doesn’t seem to be that much for four days out in the wilderness. I did some minor editing and as a gift to the rest of the guys, I burned the images to a disc. As I look back at the images now, I wish I had been more selective and only sent out about a dozen or so of the best images rather than sending 100 plus. Something to remember for next year.
This was the view from our landing area next to our campsite. This is probably my favorite image of the entire trip (or at least one of the top three or four). Using LR 2, I changed the Tone Curve to Strong Contrast, moved the White Balance Temp a little more Blue, and sharpened it a bit and that’s about it.
Exposure: 1/1600 sec, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 200
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