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.

For your High Lo’s, hop on over to the site of the new Guthrie Theater and look up.

I’m itching to get back there, I took this when I was down to see the bridge with my friend Chris. We stopped by to visit his sister-in-law Amy who sells yummy shortbread and scones at the open-air market there. She said that in the morning, the shadow of the sign hits a red wall behind it in a way that all you can see are the two letters ‘ME.’

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

The City Daily Photo Blog Theme for July is to post a picture of a sign in your town that includes the text “no”. This isn’t my home of Minneapolis, but of The Wisconsin Dells. I drove through there after Lake Delton washed down stream. Learn more here.

As tragic as this event was, I found this sign oddly entertaining, the one good view of the missing lake had not only these signs, but they had parked a semi trailer to block the view from the main road. As if to say “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” I would have taken more pictures, but I kept my Jeep rolling so ever slowly forward as I took this, so as to comply with “No Standing.”

Good luck to the industrious people of the Dells, I’m sure you’ll have the lake back in no time. Lake Delton Isn’t the main draw, the rivers through the area are the amazing part, plus the Vegas-like main drag is still going strong.

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

What on earth does this mean? There’s the period, where’s the verb? Is “free” a specific amount? Do we have to specify that it’s free in terms of dollars, but it might cost you in some other way?

And now for something completely different…
wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man (remix) by Cuban Boys

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

Cell Phone Sunday is an on-going project. Both to prove that “it’s not the camera” and for the creative challenge, these are pictures I take with the simple 480×640 camera in my cell phone. As opposed to the Nikon D200 that I use for all the other pictures, the only button I use on the the cell phone is “capture.” That’s it, no compensations or zoom or aperture. More point & shoot than point & shoot, is our motto. Of course, I still work on them in Lightroom a little.

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

I guess you have to be an expert at something.

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

Day three of spring, Easter is here, where are the bunnies?
Another Cell Phone Sunday pic, I snapped this Saturday on my walk.
Please STOP, I don’t want to return to winter, here at Lake of the Isles.

Cell-phone Sunday (or as you Brits say, mobile phone) is when I post photos taken only with my crappy 640×480 phone camera to show that I’m not totally dependent on my big Nikon camera; after all, it’s the photographer that takes the picture.

Labyrinth

Here’s a bonus image for today. While I was out walking I found someone had make a labyrinth in the snow on the North end of the lake. I was impressed and walked it. I looked up labyrinths after finding one in Como Park this summer.  After walking the one I found and seeing another one on the West bay, I tried my feet at making my own on the Western side of the lake by the new house construction site — here it is. I don’t know who made the first two, but thanks for doing it! I really enjoyed it and plan on making more of them as I go for walks. It gives me a reason to look forward to more snow.