Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow presents daily photos of Minneapolis. Cityscapes, People & Perspectives: Mitch explains composition and techniques.
Spring is in the air, the woodpeckers are on the wing, snow is trying to melt, and mitchster.com has a new theme!
I am working on changing the look of mitchster so that I can add a lot of new stuff, like the recent comments and posts on the right, and articles about other things besides photography. I was having fun with the old look, but this one is bigger and gives me more flexibility. I have plans to bring back the glow-in-the-dark duck (that’s him in regular light above), but I needed to make this layout work first. Let me know what you think!
This Downy Woodpecker was singing and fluttering around Lake of The Isles with a friend of a feather. Can’t tell if they are mates, I haven’t figured out the difference between the males and females. Good thing I’m not a Downy Woodpecker eh? I found a neat factoid on WhatBird.com — A group of woodpeckers has many collective nouns, including “a descent of woodpeckers”, “a drumming of woodpeckers”, and a “gatling of woodpeckers.” I have a big list of animal group names, I’ll have to find it and post it soon.
I’m pretty excited to be working on Mitchster.com a little more now, I just completed a few websites and have some more time during the day. If you are curious, here’s the three jobs I just finished:
