When I was at the St. Paul Cathedral, Annette from Annette and Walter modeled for this shot. This devotional-candle stand, with so many points of light, was a real challenge: I used an f/1.4 for the shallow depth of field to add emotion and draw the eye to the point of interest.
I’m connected, so if you’d like to submit your prayers in the comments, I will pass them on up!
Professional Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow shares daily photos of the city he loves. Exploring Minneapolis through Photography while teaching composition and techniques.
This is the Heffelfinger Fountain in the Lyndale Park Rose Garden on the Northeast shore of Lake Harriet. It’s the second oldest rose garden in the U.S. and was designed by Theodore Wirth.
Yes, this is infrared. I’ve posted a few of these over time and y’all demanded more of them, so here ya go.
I’ll be bringing you photos of the parks and trails for most of the month; I’d like to prove the beauty of this city’s greenspaces before I begin the State Fair. The State Fair is big deal here, it runs from the 21st thru Sept 1st. There’s tons of fun there, but it’s mainly about things you really shouldn’t be eating — on a stick. Batter-fried cheese curds, Batter-fried candy bars, Batter-fried oreos, some obscenity called a scotch egg and walleye-on-a-stick are a few crowd pleasers of yore. The latter I’ve not seen, but my dad is fascinated by — since he won’t come up here, I gotta go find one. So enjoy the pretty pictures while they last.
Professional Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow shares daily photos of the city he loves. Exploring Minneapolis through Photography while teaching composition and techniques.
Continuing with the obstruction theme, today’s distortion is brought to you by the reflective and warped doors on a building at the University of Minnesota across the street from a Caribou Coffee. I like how this image pairs well with yesterday’s image: similar composition and subjects.
This was a fun image to compose, though I was inspired by and standing right where my friend Bob was when he took a picture of the same thing (plagiarism is such an ugly word), I focused on the reflected buildings, not the door and really had to work to get the open sign legible. It’s all about the coffee.
I was out with Bob and Matt walking around the new stadium construction at the U. It’s going to be quite the beast! It’s impressive to think that the St. Anthony Bridge (new 35W Bridge), the University Stadium and the new Twins’ Stadium are all being built at the same time. Three major Minneapolis landmarks being created at the same time.
Tomorrow Obstruction: Constriction
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.
