Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow’s daily photos of Minneapolis and the Twin Cities.
I want to see more of these around out here on the plains. Have you ever been right next to one of these things? They are insane! The sound, the power! Wow!
Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow presents daily photos of Minneapolis. Cityscapes, People & Perspectives: Mitch explains composition and techniques.
Can you believe this? It’s like a perfect world here. It’s freaking me out.
Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow’s daily photos of Minneapolis and the Twin Cities.
Where did all that rain come from? Here’s a photo of one of the big storms as it rolled by to the south.
Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow presents daily photos of Minneapolis. Cityscapes, People & Perspectives: Mitch explains composition and techniques. Osprey perch on Lake of the Isles with snow.
Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow presents daily Minneapolis Photography. Minneapolis Cityscapes, People & Perspectives: Mitch explains photography, composition and photo techniques.
Post-apocalyptic nuclear winter? Nope. Eight in the morning in Minneapolis. Like water in a Mad Max movie, sunlight is a precious resource in the northern latitudes this time of year. Someone once said that if God wanted us to see the sunrise, he would have made it later in the day. God wants us to see the sunrise here and now.
Yes, I’m on the roof. One of the perks of being a caretaker for my building is keys to the roof. Best place to see the sunrise. It’s easy to track the movement of the sun from the south to the north throughout the year. The buildings are on a regular grid, the white building in the foreground points east, so you can see how far south the sun is.
And yes, I processed this image. I had what I call an Edward Hopper image, high dynamic range (HDR). I shoot these in camera raw so that I have lots of information to work with. I lower the highlights and raise the midtones to keep the proper exposure throughout the image. So yes, the sky is not that moody, but this isn’t far off.
This is Uptown, the Famous Dave’s Ribs sign is the orange glow on the left. I love the light at the time I was shooting, lots of red in the sky and the light falling on the foreground is very blue. It really looks like that, the snow was blue. Normally you don’t notice that because your eyes white balance themselves so well. With the sky firing the red light right at me, my eyes kept their 5000K balance and saw the snow as blue. A cool demonstration of this was when I was coming back from the Northern Air Resort with Jeff at twilight, I turned on my laptop to convert the pictures, the gray mac startup screen looked red. I pointed this out to Jeff and he was mystified. The blue light of a winter twilight makes your eyes shift to see blue as white, so the actually gray screen looked very red.
More optic fun for you guys, so take time to look at how the light changes, but don’t, seriously don’t look directly at the sun.
P.S. My hometown of Kenosha took a real beating Tuesday, tornadoes in January! Take a look
Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow presents daily Minneapolis Photography. Minneapolis Cityscapes, People & Perspectives: Mitch explains photography, composition and photo techniques.
Yes, this is 1:00 in the afternoon. It’s fun living in the biggest most northern city. I was out between the islands on Lake of the Isles, wandering on the ice when the clouds shifted. Overcast high cirrus clouds changed over to lower cumulus clouds with a brief moment of open sky.This was at thee beginning of the transition.
Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow presents daily photos of Minneapolis. Cityscapes, People & Perspectives: Mitch explains composition and techniques.
It’s a new day at Mitchster.com. I woke up this morning to find an email from Wayne (Thanks Wayne!) informing me that my site had been down since 11:50pm central yesterday. I called godaddy.com a couple times and they said that they knew about it and were working on it. Apparently all the Wordpress blogs on GoDaddy were down.
At 11:45 am today, it came back up — almost 12 hours later. I haven’t backed up the database since I created mitchster.com and that was all I was thinking about today. As soon as the site came back up, I downloaded it. So the lesson for all you bloggers… Find the database export function on your blog and get the file. It’s just nice to have a current copy.
This picture was taken a few years ago at Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis. It seemed appropriate to how I am feeling right now. I was going to post about infrared photography today, but I’m going to wait until tomorrow. Now I am going to take a nap, or at least breath normally for a while.
Thanks again to all of you that emailed me about it and commiserated. It’s very nice when you are in crisis to know others are thinking of you.
P.S. Mom called, no post, something must be wrong. 
Now I know why she hasn’t called lately to see if I’m still kicking. Years ago she gave me a little sign that I put in my kitchen that says, “Mom worries.” Now I know my blog as another purpose I didn’t know about.
