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… Read More »Paisley Park
Going to be a quick write up today, but excited that there were a plethora of submissions this week. Including a submission from first time submitter Jodie Bennett. Which is pretty sweet! Here are the submissions for COUNTRY: Becky Perkovich Bill Wentworth Jodie Bennett Kim Barker 1 Kim Barker 2… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 32 – COUNTRY
Bethany and Dae Hee recently brought forth new life into this world. Nate, Laura, Jim and rolled up I-35 (or 35 Interstate in Kansan) and visited little Nora Olivia Yoon. I don’t normally post pictures of people in the hospital, but I’ll make an exception, this one time. Here is… Read More »Nora
I strangely came upon this on a work misadventure. For one day, my work environment was a lot more interesting. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 320 FOCAL LENGTH: UNRECORDED APERTURE: UNRECORDED EXPOSURE: 1/40 DATE TAKEN: 04/13/16 – 13:36 LATITUDE: 42.03722° LONGITUDE: -93.68136°
Time for another look at the fallen Wagon Wheel Bridge. Probably have quite a few more of these sad images in the hopper. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 100 FOCAL LENGTH: 24mm APERTURE: f/8 EXPOSURE: 1/320 DATE: 03/11/2016 – 14:07 LATITUDE: 42.06252 LONGITUDE: -93.96999 PHOTO ASSISTANT: Carla Stensland
I felt before I went into the HDR Nik Plugin, I should cover the HDR Toning features that are built into Photoshop. So here is a quick look at the High Dynamic Range toning options in Photoshop. Original Image Color Correction and the Chain has been Removed Flat City Twilight… Read More »High Ding Dong Range Toning
Recently my WB Joe stumbled across an article that Google had made their Nik Plugins free. I rushed to the website and downloaded this collection of 7 plugins to play with immediately. I thought I would give you a quick overview of some of the settings of these plugins, starting… Read More »Analog Efex Pro
On my recent trip to Kansas I stopped and took a few photos here and there. Kansans were burning their prairie, which made for interesting views. I missed a golden opportunity to get a pretty sweet fire picture. So I did stop to get a picture of the aftermath of… Read More »Desolation View
This is the last photo from my trip to Minnehaha Falls from February. Because of recent events, I’ll probably be visiting Minneapolis again in the near future. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 100 FOCAL LENGTH: 18mm APERTURE: f/20 EXPOSURE: 8 seconds DATE: 02/26/2016 – 18:14 LATITUDE: 44.91549° LONGITUDE: -93.21059° PHOTO… Read More »Minnehaha Fallen
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… Read More »Post Process
I believe I only have one more Minnehaha Falls picture to share after this, so for those of you that hate Minnesota. Or waterfalls. Or life. You will only have to endure one more. Which is good, because we are coming up on flower season. I can think of at… Read More »Minnehahaed Out?
As many of you may know, the historic Wagon Wheel Bridge recently collapsed after being damaged by ice dams. Carla and I went out there to take a looksie. Here is one of the photos from that trip: Some of you may be wondering why I’m not wishing you guys… Read More »The Bravest Act
Here is an image I made for a special occasion. That is all. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 100 FOCAL LENGTH: 35mm APERTURE: f/5.6 EXPOSURE: 10 seconds NO GPS DATA
My last image from a walk around Ledges back in January. It seems I need to get to Ledges again very soon. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 100 FOCAL LENGTH: 20mm APERTURE: f/25 EXPOSURE: 1/10 DATE: 01/31/2016 15:14 LATITUDE: 41.99427° LONGITUDE: -93.88499°
On my recent trip to Minneapolis I efforted to photograph Minnehaha Falls. Below is a picture from those efforts. (Waterfall not included) Bethany and Tempe accompanied me on this trip. It was then that she revealed to me that her favorite way to break the law iS to illegally park.… Read More »Mini + 2(Ha)
One of the last pictures from that walk around Ledges over a month ago. I seem to be in a water mode lately. You’ll see. Or you have seen. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 100 FOAL LENGTH 60mm APERTURE: f/22 EXPOSURE: .3 seconds DATE: 01/31/16 – 15:08 LATITUDE: 41.99454° LONGITUDE:… Read More »Longer
Another photo from my trip to the Ledges State Park. I’m planning on visiting a waterfall in Minnesota this weekend. It will be quite a bit larger. Hopefully still frozen. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 1000 FOCAL LENGTH: 60mm APERTURE: f/4 EXPOSURE: 1/2500 DATE TAKEN: 01/31/2016 – 15:08 LATITUDE: 41.99453°… Read More »All These Little Gestures
A waterfall (sorta) from Ledges State Park. Still a couple more pictures from my recentish walk around Ledges. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 100 FOCAL LENGTH: 10mm APERTURE: f/22 EXPOSURE: 1/4 DATE TAKEN: 01-31-2016 – 15:05 LATITUDE: 41.99386° LONGITUDE: -93.88518° FIELD OF VIEW: 61.9°
I feel like it has been too long since I published a picture of Naima. So I’m going to remedy that: Naima does love new fallen snow. Probably because she doesn’t have to snow. Oh wait… I never have to shovel snow either! PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 100 FOCAL… Read More »Rich Chords Over a Bass Pedal
A look at the view of Manhattan from Manhattan Hill. I’ll most likely be doing a dump of the rest of the images from my trip to visit Nate and Laura at some point next week. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V ISO: 100 FOCAL LENGTH: 10mm APERTURE: f/8 EXPOSURE: 1/400 DATE… Read More »Boston Hill
I might have gone a little mad with the HDR toning on this image. Its not like I’m a maniac or a raving thing. I just go a little mad sometimes. We all go a little made sometimes. Haven’t you? Sometimes just one time can be enough. PARTICULARS CAMERA: SONY… Read More »Norman Bates