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Another fourteen-below morning greeted me head-on today. Cold days like this are best spent inside. Time is better used editing pictures and working on websites for my clients. This photo was taken the same time as the this one. Though not as dramatic, this one has a more solid composition with the edges of the building joining the corners. When you are shooting, compose the entire image; look around, how can you make one shape the dominant element? And now for today’s feature presentation:

Billy McLaughlin’s Story

Billy McLaughlin is an amazing guitarist — you have to watch this video. Billy was the best Finger-style guitarist up until a few years ago when he lost the ability to use his right hand to play this incredibly-demanding style that he created. The video shows how he overcame the problem and his comeback. I know you will love his music, just listen. Then head over to Billy’s website. I know you will like that too, I built it.Yep, that’s my day job. I build sites for a wide range of clients, especially artists. I like working with people who are passionate about what they do, and Billy is my star. He has a few shows coming up — his music sounds fantastic with an orchestra and that’s what he’s doing in the next few months — playing with full orchestras.Billy McLaughlin, Amazing Finger-style Guitarist

Three degrees today — a heat wave — almost warm enough to snow. The Edina Theater is in the cute upscale neighborhood of 50th and France. After trying several places, Bob Kupbens and I ended up here looking for a photo and I found one. Again this is the famous Tamron 11-18mm ultra wide lens. Believe it or not, this image is cropped. There was too much on the right and top, I wanted to center in on the theater.

I love being part of the Daily World Photographing Clique, but I’d like to lasso a few locals too. By mentioning the movies playing here in Minneapolis: The Savages, Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Atonement and the Kite Runner, I’m curious if more people will find my blog by chance. If you came here looking for the movies, don’t hate me, I’m just a daily photographer spreading the gospel of the World Photographers called the City Daily Photo Bloggers. See the world today!

The Winter Carnival Starts this week in St. Paul. For those of you who were incredulous over the seat warmers, I’ll try to document to the fine art of survival in the shadowy land of winter, so stay tuned, same Mitchster time, same Mitchster URL.

A big thank you to Thein of Seguin (TX) and Halcyon of Jackson Daily Photo for giving me the You Make My Day Award. I’ll go through my lists and put up my picks soon. Thanks!