On one of my safaris across the lake I encountered this pair just sitting in the middle of the lake. Not fishing, just sitting. Nothing going on, no kite boarders, nothing really at all. I switched to my long lens to drag the shoreline in and moved to position the sun to catch the glint of the ice.

Just as I was ready to shoot, the one got up to take a picture of the other. The spectators themselves became the spectacle and they knew it too.

In the instant of the open shutter, when I’m actually working and intentionally doing nothing at the same time; the true photographic moment of zen, I called all three of us into question.

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Back to the streets again for the Parade. Friday night is definitely busier than Thursday. The streets filled up pretty quickly, you can tell that this photo is from before the parade because the lights are still on. Just before the parade begins, they cut the street lights and the bus shelter lights, but the Christmas lights on the trees stay on.

It’s very different with the lights on, the lights on the big buildings light up the low clouds so it almost feels like you are indoors on Nicollet, ‘cept of course for the bitter cold.

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Dan and I went down to see the Holidazzle Parade last night. It’s a difficult thing to photograph, tripods are pretty much a necessity. The Holidazzle Parade is at 6:30 Thursday – Sunday. We’re going back tonight with re-enforcements, so any suggestions are appreciated.

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While out on a photo safari with Dan & Dusty, we found a children’s choir singing Christmas songs in the middle of Crystal Court. This seemed like a fun time to show the full range of lenses from the 11mm wide-angle above, to the 300mm with Dan’s 1.4 teleconverter below. I didn’t bring my 500mm, seemed excessive for a skyway tour.

I really like this photo of the kids; in the photo above, they all look the same, dressed in white shirts and black pants. But in this close-up they all look so different, even their white shirts don’t match. Pretty cool how we can all work together but yet be such unique individuals. Have you seen the movie “Up”? Doesn’t the little red-head in the bottom-right look like the young Elle?

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Actress Jean Olson played the roll of Minnesota Sufferagette Clara Ueland at the Shadows and Spirits of the State Capitol. The tours are going on again this weekend, learn more here…

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