Professional Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow shares daily photos of the city he loves. Exploring Minneapolis through Photography while teaching composition and techniques.

Back by popular demand, here’s some more infrared photos.

You can see the split bridge crossing the pond in front. I always have to cross it when I visit the garden, I think evil spirits are supposed to get stuck on the bridge, I guess evil spirits aren’t able to turn corners over water, must be a feng-shui thing.

Love this stuff, looks so surreal doesn’t it?

Professional Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow shares daily photos of the city he loves. Exploring Minneapolis through Photography while teaching composition and techniques.

OK, OK, I’ll give the infrared a rest. But since today in my “Moment of Zen” day, where I try to stop your thoughts with an odd image, it fit. Here’s my TerraTrike. It’s a recumbent trike, loads of fun and a joy to ride. The best part is that I can haul my big camera around in the saddle bag and use it as a table when I am setting up my gear. Plus it’s funner-n-ell in the winter; I go looking for ice patches to slide on.

This is Fort Snelling State Park just south of the MSP airport in the Minnesota river valley.

Professional Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow shares daily photos of the city he loves. Exploring Minneapolis through Photography while teaching composition and techniques.

Another stop on the amazing Minneapolis bike trail system. This is one of over a dozen little bridges over the Minnehaha creek. The trail follows the creek from the base of Lake Harriet to the Minnehaha Falls. I’ll post a photo of the falls sometime, but it’s a perennial favorite of photography students and tourists, so I am a tad reticent to shoot it. Maybe I should see what it looks like in infrared…

I explain how to take infrared photos here.

Professional Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow shares daily photos of the city he loves. Exploring Minneapolis through Photography while teaching composition and techniques.

This is the path from Minnehaha Falls to Fort Snelling. I love this path, it’s a destination bike ride for me. The surface is a little rough, but it’s fun to imagine the old trains chugging up this route on their way to Minneapolis. The new light-rail commuter train is just up the hill and you can sometimes hear it in the distance.

This is life in the Northern Deciduous Forest of Minnesota, a contiuous canopy of oak, beech, ash, aspen, maple and cottonwood trees surrounded by a wide variety of ground covering plants. As horrific as this place can get in the winter, summer more than makes up for it.

I explain how to take infrared photos here.

Professional Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow shares daily photos of the city he loves. Exploring Minneapolis through Photography while teaching composition and techniques.

This is the Heffelfinger Fountain in the Lyndale Park Rose Garden on the Northeast shore of Lake Harriet. It’s the second oldest rose garden in the U.S. and was designed by Theodore Wirth.

Yes, this is infrared. I’ve posted a few of these over time and y’all demanded more of them, so here ya go.

I’ll be bringing you photos of the parks and trails for most of the month; I’d like to prove the beauty of this city’s greenspaces before I begin the State Fair. The State Fair is big deal here, it runs from the 21st thru Sept 1st. There’s tons of fun there, but it’s mainly about things you really shouldn’t be eating — on a stick. Batter-fried cheese curds, Batter-fried candy bars, Batter-fried oreos, some obscenity called a scotch egg and walleye-on-a-stick are a few crowd pleasers of yore. The latter I’ve not seen, but my dad is fascinated by — since he won’t come up here, I gotta go find one. So enjoy the pretty pictures while they last.

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