Category: snow

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A Quiet Night on Hennepin in the Snow

Snow and pools of light fall upon the quiet street.

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Lightrail in the Snowstorm

Two Minneapolis Lightrail Trains pass in the snowstorm near the new Target Field.

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Snowmageddon Lightrail Station

Schnapsi and I went out in the snowmageddon last night to take photos during the storm. We went downtown and had quite the adventure! The snow was falling so fast and with the strong winds, it was a new experience in photojournalism, several times my camera bag got a drift in it and once my hood had blown back and by the time I put it back up it too had filled with snow, Yikes! I had planned a few locations ahead, but it turned out that the visibility was so bad that none of them worked. Schnapsi wanted to go to the lightrail station and I'm glad we did!

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Luminary Pyramid from the Luminary Loppet

The Loppet this year was the busiest I've ever seen. The luminary sculptures are fascinating points of interest for the wandering crowds. For one night a year, the rather quiet lake is the busiest tourist attraction in town. I love that you can see all the people on their phones either taking pix or tweeting or something. This was shot by the PoleCam!

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Luminary Loppet Ice Henge From Above

A 'Loppet' is a cross-country ski race. Nobody knows that, but it's a nice short word and fits on a sign nicely. The 'Luminary Loppet' is an event in Minneapolis on Lake of the Isles in the evening, it started out as a track lit by 'luminaries' which are blocks of ice with candles in them. Then a group of ingenious people started building sculptures of ice and putting candles in them. This is the 'Ice Henge' which is the newest sculpture this year. Look closely, you can see me in the shot!

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Luminary Loppet Ice Henge at Night

Last night a the Luminary Loppet, I went out shooting with Werner, Rob and Matt. We all brought our Tripods for the night photos, except me. I brought the infamous tottering PoleCamTM and was able to pull off some long-ish exposures with the camera wobbling twenty feet in the air. This is the first time PoleCam has been out in a crowded place and it's amazing how much attention the contraption attracts. Stick around, more pix this week!

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Ice Henge - Loppet Ice Sculpture

The Luminary Loppet is this Tomorrow, Saturday the 5th. I went out to test my gear this afternoon and am proud to announce that PoleCamTM is ready for action!

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Kitefest Blue Kite

I really liked this big blue parachute-sized kite. It had these big windsocks that trailed it. When they launched it, the tails snaked around behind it in a wonderfully hypnotic way. Kitefest is held in January on frozen Lake Harriet. This is truly making lemonade out of lemons; this whole city is either lakes or forested parks, it's really hard to find a place to fly a kite in the summer, but in the winter, it's all treeless, perfectly level parks. Windy, windy parks.

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My Favorite Snow Blower

Hennepin County crews are removing the massive snow banks from Uptown this week. This terrifying machine is attached to a loader and has it's own 300-hp diesel engine. I watched them working the block by my home and was amazed by how complicated the process is. They first come by with this RPM Tech HS Series Detachable Snow Blower to get the majority of the snow, filling a dump truck in 30 seconds. Then two road graders work the area to scrape the snow and ice from the curb and the middle of the road. Then the beast returns for a final cleanup, which is when I took this shot. Ok geeks, here's RPM Tech's Front-Loader Blowers.

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Busy Tree

Winter takes it's toll eventually; pretty soon everything needs to have the Christmas-tree treatment. Extra credit: find Mr. Bill.