Archive for November 2007
The shining emerald city of Minneapolis offers it’s best view from 35W, in fact, if you are a fan of the movie Fargo, you will see this angle as the guys drive in from Brainerd. Actually, if they were coming from Brainerd, they would be coming the other direction, but the view of downtown from the North isn’t nearly as spectacular. Unless you were there on the first of August.
Long exposures is one of the many benefits of night photography. To learn how to take photos like this and many more photography tips, please stay tuned to my daily photo blog, where I publish a photo from Minneapolis every day.
In the great words of James Lileks, it’s the Rock’em Sock’em Robot, and he’s pissed. Why is there a giant robot trying to eat Minneapolis? This image has not been edited; this thing really exists. The Walker Art Center is an aluminum-encrusted monstrosity that actually scares me — this is about as close as I dare get.
Just below Mr. Rock’em is a tunnel. This allows Interstate 94 to go under one of the busiest intersections in the area. It’s not the big dig, but it’s pretty cool. The pedestrian bridge I’m standing on is insanely loud; the sound coming out of the tunnel/acoustic shotgun blasts straight at the bridge.
Aside from the cold, going deaf and being chased by an angry giant robot, I had a good time.
Ha! I found the place with the view over 35W. My first reaction was; how on earth are you people shooting through the chain-link fence? Then I found the hole. It reminded me of Geocashing, knowing that someone had been here before and I had to find the small mystery. The sky wasn’t that interesting and I think I could do a better job on the exposure, so watch for another version soon.
The shining emerald city of Minneapolis offers it’s best view from 35W, in fact, if you are a fan of the movie Fargo, you will see this angle as the guys drive in from Brainerd. Actually, if they were coming from Brainerd, they would be coming the other direction, but the view of downtown from the North isn’t nearly as spectacular. Unless you were there on the first of August.
I’ll be posting through Thanksgiving, so if you need a break from the family unit or want to show them that Minneapolis isn’t that bad, stop by and see what I put up.
Enjoy your time with the family, take a deep breath before answering inappropriate questions and safe travels! 
And they said you couldn’t take a good picture on a crappy gray day. I was out shooting Sunday with Bob and went to an old classic, the Weisman Museum. This Frank Gehry masterpiece is snugged up on the edge of the UM campus and overlooks the 35W Bridge collapse site. This building is beautiful on a blue sunny day and glares like a frozen lake. Bob and I were there on a completely overcast day and I wasn’t sure what I would get. If you check out Bob’s picture, you can see what that day really looked like. I abused Lightroom to get the color and texture into this image.
I’m getting sufficiently jealous of all the other bloggers’ twilight shots of downtown from the pedestrian bridge over 35W, so I hope to get out and try it this evening.
If you breath deep, listen to the silence and and try to become one with the universe, you can hand-hold a camera still enough to take a shot like this.
