Night Photography

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Dawn Over Minneapolis Rush Hour

Ha! I found the place with the view over 35W. My first reaction was; how on earth are you people shooting through the chain-link fence? Then I found the hole. It reminded me of Geocashing, knowing that someone had been here before and I had to find the small mystery. The sky wasn't that interesting and I think I could do a better job on the exposure, so watch for another version soon. The shining emerald city of Minneapolis offers it's best view from 35W, in fact, if you are a fan of the movie Fargo, you will see this angle as the guys drive in from Brainerd. Actually, if they were coming from Brainerd, they would be coming the other direction, but the view of downtown from the North isn't nearly as spectacular. Unless you were there on the first of August. I'll be posting through Thanksgiving, so if you need a break from the family unit or want to show them that Minneapolis isn't that bad, stop by and see what I put up. Enjoy your time with the family, take a deep breath before answering inappropriate questions and safe travels!

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Darkness Descends over the Lake

If you breath deep, listen to the silence and and try to become one with the universe, you can hand-hold a camera still enough to take a shot like this.

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Full Moon Over Lake of the Isles

It's the biggest full moon of the year (seriously, it's 14% wider and 30% brighter). Make sure you get out and see the "Hunter's Moon" come up! I managed to get up early this morning and catch it before it went down. No better way to start your day than fumbling with a telephoto lens in the dark on a 38° morning without mittens (true Minnesotans don't wear them 'til it's at least 10°). All lunatic blogger references aside, I was out last night and was amazed at how bright the moon was, so I looked it up and found out why. This morning's picture isn't the best moon shot I've taken, I was using my 70-210 Nikkor that I'm starting to not trust. It's doing some weird stuff that looks like chromatic aberration, but the guy at National Camera said it was a good lens... I guess I'm going to have to spend more, oh well. I might set up the spotting scope tonight and mount the camera on it and try again. Now that the sun is coming up and I'm enjoying my dark roast at Caribou, sanity is sweeping lunacy from my mind and the fruits of clarity suggest otherwise — everyone knows what the moon looks like. We'll go look for some more colorful things to shoot today and get back on track with daylight, after all, there's less and less of it everyday.