Archive for January 2010

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Uptown Vanishing Points to Calhoun

OK, enough color deprivation. This is 31st Ave and Hennepin looking towards Calhoun.  With an extreme wide-angle lens, this view turns into a wonderfully emphatic vortex of perspective. I really like the patterns salt leave on concrete. Oh, yeah, I faked a lot of color into this in post processing,  I couldn't help it: I need color!

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Closed Stair Railing

I thought I'd add a little color to the program after yesterday's purely monochromatic event. These stairs are at Lake of The Isles and James Ave, south of 28th. They are WPA era and are just too hard for the city to keep safely clear, so they chain them off. See the chain? It's got an orange flag on it to make sure.

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Adirondack Chairs in the Snow

I find the monochromatic nature of winter in Minnesota fascinating. Not only is all the color sucked from the landscape and covered with white, the low winter sun casts amazing shadows. Quite frequently the sky here is very clear, in fact, most of us dread a bright day, it means that it's "too cold for clouds." The photographic impact of that is that with no clouds at all in the sky, the light from the sun is like that of a single bare light bulb,  no fuzzy-edged shadows, just nice, sharp silhouettes. P.S. These are located in Uptown on Lake Street, do you know what popular hangout they are next to?

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Calhoun Square’s New Commons 2

They replaced the escalators as well, it's actually a cozy place in spite of the missing Starbucks. There's so much wrong with what I just said...

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Calhoun Square's New Commons

Check out the new spacious commons area at Calhoun Square. Very Mall. I barely recognize the place.

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Kitchen Window's New Grilling Deck

Calhoun Square Mall has been undergoing some big changes lately. Kitchen Window moved to where Border's Books was. They now have their own deck for grilling classes. How cool is that? I need to take classes

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Best Photo of the Year 2009

You may disagree with me, but this is one of my favorite photos from this year. It might just be all that green. I miss green... Is there one that you like more? Time for commenting! Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

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Toboggan Rack in Uptown

Look closely, this minivan has a Toboggan Rack on the passenger side. I couldn't believe it when it went by me. I had to hurry to the intersection to catch it. Good thing too, I was able to throw in the winter biker, Loppet sign, Happy Hour sign, Uptown Theater sign and all the other acoutrements of Uptown.

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Kicking Up Snow

Sometimes the image is right there at your feet. I noticed this while walking on Lake of the isles, the surface of the snow was very granular and scattered nicely as I walked along.

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The Uptown Bar is Truly Gone

Somehow breakfast will never be the same...