Category Archives: History

Bethany, Dad, Dae Hee, History, Laura, Music, Nate, Nora, Road Trip, Teresa, Travel

Paisley Park

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This last weekend I made a trip up with Nate and Laura to visit Bethany, Dae Hee, Nora, and Colleen. On Saturday night we made our way to Long Lake to eat at Primo. Dae Hee and I left early so we could swing by Paisley Park to see the Prince Memorial.

Below are some pictures.










































So part of the reason I went to Paisley Park is because it was history. It was like going to Graceland after Elvis died. However, it wasn’t the majority of the reason that I went.

I don’t normally get too caught up in celebrity deaths. It is usually a time when people flock to social media to overstate their “relationship” with the deceased celebrity.

However Prince’s death to have an effect on me. I can’t claim to be a huge fan of Prince’s music, although I did enjoy it. I also admired his musicality and he was without a doubt one of the foremost musical geniuses of the last 50 years. He produced an album a year for over a decade. There are rumors that he has well over a thousand unreleased songs that he has recorded and not released. On some of his biggest hits he played every instrument on the recording. Often recording the song in one day. Often recording more than one song in a day in this manner.

One of my favorite Prince stories is when he played the Super Bowl halftime show in the pouring rain. The producers of the halftime show were worried that he would want to pull out. When they called him and asked him about the rain he gave a great response.

“Can you make it rain harder?”

The rain didn’t stop until he played his final song of the night, Purple Rain. Despite this fact, he gave what was easily the best Super Bowl Halftime show in history. A show that will stand the test of time for its pure virtuosity alone.

I’ll miss Prince because one of my fondest memories of my childhood was my eldest sister Teresa’s friends infatuation with Prince (even though I think Teresa was more into Phil Collins). One even dressed like Prince and his license plates matched Prince’s from PURPLE RAIN. It is up there with listening to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 on family road trips. Or Dad telling Teresa that if she wanted to go Hall some Oates, he could take her to a farm.

Prince dying is like a piece of my childhood dying.

I may have to become an adult yet.

Animals, History

02-22-07

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The images posted here are from the folder 02-22-07.

As promised, there is some squirrel.






































The next folder is supposed to be 02-28-07, but it seems to be just a bunch of pictures that were already in another folder, so we’ll probably just skip that one and move on.

History, Work

02-15-07 Work Walk

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I’ve went through a myriad of unsuccessful organizational schemes over the years, but I’m lost why in a folder that goes by the name “02-15-07 Work Walk” there are only two images and neither one has anything to do with work. I’m guessing even less to do with 02-15-07.

Well. Here they are.






Next week’s folder seems to be called 02-22-07. Looks like some squirrel in that one. That means you should get excited.

Derrick, History, Nate

Store

This week’s collection was supposed to be from the folder SNOW. That folder is just too large to go through in a weekend that involved 15 or so hours in the car.

So I skipped ahead to STORE, because it is considerably less ambitious.

In this small collection is an image of a tool that was instrumental in the manufacture of the Photography Calendar for several years. Craft Night. A young Nate starting on the path to becoming a Master Baker. That was when I used to participate in the whole feed your co-workers on your work anniversary scam at the Computer Mine.












That peanut butter cake though…

Carla, History, Nature, Ruins

Post Process

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This image is the result of an experiment in post-processing. When I have a good solid wedge of free time, I will explain in further detail with a ton of examples. Or I might not. Magician and his tricks… you know.

For now, just enjoy this image of the fallen Wagon Wheel Bridge.




Of course, there will be many more pictures of the mangled remains of the Wagon Wheel Bridge in our future.

PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 18mm
APERTURE: f/8
EXPOSURE: 1/250
DATE: 03/11/16 – 14:06
LATITUDE: 42.06255°
LONGITUDE: -93.97008°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: Carla Stensland

History

2007 – January – Before & After

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Although I’ll eventually move this series to Saturday* (like next Saturday) I wanted to debut it today, before I hit the trail for parts north.

The external hard drive that houses many of my old images is becoming increasingly less reliable, so I’m in the process of transferring them to the world wide webs for safe keeping.

These are images from January 2007 in a folder labeled “Before & After” that I thought were borderline interesting enough to keep for posterity.


















Another folder next Saturday.

*I quickly discovered that I didn’t have the time needed to dedicate to do an adequate “Lists” segment. If I’m going to fail at something due to lack of time, I have other things I’d prefer to fail at.