I’ve seen this view dozens of times and never could get it right — until now. I’ve even tried to shoot it with a bigger lens from across the lake. Hennepin is on a ridge and the neighborhood banks away from it. The curve is nicely obvious from Lake Calhoun.
OK, enough color deprivation. This is 31st Ave and Hennepin looking towards Calhoun. With an extreme wide-angle lens, this view turns into a wonderfully emphatic vortex of perspective. I really like the patterns salt leave on concrete. Oh, yeah, I faked a lot of color into this in post processing, I couldn’t help it: I need color!
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.
