Professional Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow shares daily photos of the city he loves. Exploring Minneapolis through Photography while teaching composition and techniques.
An early morning on the shore of one of ten thousand, this little Spotted Sandpiper carefully studies the continental breakfast buffet. So many choices, but they are all still bugs. How can I tell that this is a SPOTTED sandpiper? He wandered off to the side of the sun and I caught this photo.
He sure was busy, darting around catching bugs. He’d hunker down low and chase them! It was fun to watch until I had my fill of bugs too. It’s hard to hold a big lens still while you have bugs crawling on you. I’ll have to work on that I guess.
The first photo is so interesting. Like the color. Sepia or natural? I like it whatever it is!
It was a lot like this, I just sharpened & increased the contrast. I saturated the color a little, but it was a lot like this!
- Mitch
Really nice composition and sense of restrained color. The backlit mirror images in shimmering gold are magical.
Love the silhouettes in the first image. More a painting than a photograph. And such a beautiful bird in the second. Sorry you had to deal with the bugs!
Jilly -
Thanks for the compliment, I really like the idea of painting this, I might try it.
- Mitch