Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow presents daily photos of Minneapolis. Cityscapes, People & Perspectives: Mitch explains composition and techniques.
Time to attack the Buckthorn. The Minneapolis forestry department is setting the islands on fire this week at Lake of the Isles. Well, actually they are only burning the buckthorn, which is an invasive species that does really well here.
I enjoyed walking around watching them work and chatted with a few of the guys as well. They were really friendly and seem to enjoy their work. I heard somewhere that the guys who run wrecking cranes have the highest job satisfaction, I wonder if cutting down trees and setting them on fire has the same effect.
Note to DCPBers, the bigger your camera, the more likely people are to think you are from the news and want to talk to you. There are some perks to getting older too, when I was a kid out exploring, I’d get chased out of places, now I’m doing the same thing, but people want to talk. Maybe it’s the camera — like Rodney Dangerfield’s routine about tying a pork chop around a kid’s neck so the dog will play with it.
This picture reminds me of the Robert Frost poem: “Some people say the world will end in fire, / Some in ice. / From what I’ve tasted of desire / I side with those who favor fire.”
Your point is absolutely true. Sometimes, when shooting an event, I walk around with two camera bodies, one with my midrange lens and one with the big telephoto. Might as well be working for National Geographic as far as crowd reaction goes. You must get that “hey, mister, are you from the paper?” often enough. Carrying a DSLR certifies you as a Real Photographer in a way that a point-and-shoot never can. Occasionally that puts people off but more often it opens them up.
Mitch, like this shot! i had to look twice to see what the orange was between the branches.
…thanks for visiting my photo blog and for the tips on DCPB. very helpful for me as a beginner! i will be checking back to your site for some ideas since you seem to have a lot of good things going on here! thanks!