Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow’s daily photos of Minneapolis and the Twin Cities.

Just got back from visiting my parents in Kenosha, Wisconsin. I’m running behind today, so you get to enjoy a backup photo of my lagoon. One block from my home is this lagoon between Lake Calhoun and Lake of the Isles. I think the lillypads are new this year.

Stay tuned! I came back through the Wisconsin Dells area and took photos of the great missing Lake Delton; I even walked on the bottom of the lake. Last week, the damn collapsed and the whole lake washed down river leaving a mucky whole in the middle of a summer resort town — very tragic for the people and businesses there.

I suggest they change the name the Delton Dry Lake, like Groom Dry Lake. It might draw a new, if interesting crowd. If you don’t know where or what Groom Dry Lake is, you probably sleep at night.

Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow presents daily photos of Minneapolis. Cityscapes, People & Perspectives: Mitch explains composition and techniques.

Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow presents daily photos of Minneapolis. Cityscapes, People & Perspectives: Mitch explains composition and techniques.

Snow can make a great projector screen — the sun was playing shadows across the park along the East shore of Lake of the Isles.

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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:

• Carolyn Francis Studio - Fine Art Landscape Oil Painter
• Kathi Tunheim - A Leadership Speaker and Coach
• MJ Marketing Group - A retail marketing services company who works with Mass Merchants, Food Wholesalers.

Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow presents daily photos of Minneapolis. Cityscapes, People & Perspectives: Mitch explains composition and techniques.

The most complicated exposure yet. Black crow on white snow in flight. Got it!

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.

Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow presents daily photos of Minneapolis. Cityscapes, People & Perspectives: Mitch explains composition and techniques. Osprey perch on Lake of the Isles with snow.