Photo Post

Couple of photos from the backlog. Haven't been making many lately - too much work going on. Bleah.

Alley Sunset

I sure do enjoy making photos and then having them on the blog a few minutes later.

View Out the Back Window Last Night

Bridge at sunset

It's Light Out When I Go Home, Sometimes

One of the nice things about late February is that it's finally light enough in the evening that I can leave work while the sun is still in the sky and not feel like I just got there. It's also a nice photo time.

Farm Lake Sunset

Here's four sunset images (taken from our dock on Farm Lake). Which do you prefer? Why?

Sunset Trees

Just some trees across the street at sunset a few days ago.

Commuting Sunset

Couple of pics of downtown Minneapolis from this evening's commute.

Lake Hiawatha Sunset (2)

Went out to take some pictures this afternoon and ended up at Lake Hiawatha again.

Project 100, #59.

Home Sick

Last Wednesday, I was home sick. It was awful. However, I felt good enough around suppertime to take a couple of sunset photos out the window. The above was taken with my Tak 50mm.

This was was with the 10-17mm fisheye, at 10mm.

Unfortunately, the feeling good didn't last and I felt pretty crummy for several days still. Only now (a week later) do I feel mostly back to normal.

Project 100, #34, #35.

Sunset on St. Paul Campus

Caught this image on my way over to class on the St. Paul campus.

Project 100, #33.

Lake Hiawatha Sunset

This afternoon I wandered through the neighborhood for an hour or so with my 50mm SMC Takumar. This is down at the seasonal ice rink adjacent to Lake Hiawatha (which is the big flat area in the background).

Right at sunset the floodlights suddenly began to buzz and tinkle -- I was worried that the light would be totally ruined. And it was, but it took a while for the floods to warm up, and for about a minute or so they were a really cool subtle blue-green. This is the in-camera JPEG, and I think there's definitely more to these images in the RAW.

Also, it was freaking cold. I took my tripod but it turns out I wasn't willing to mess with it at zero degrees F.

Project 100, #12.

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In other news, one of my more bizarre hobbies is shoveling snow. This afternoon (it was about 10 at the time) I cleared the packed snow and glare ice from the sidewalks of about 5 neighbors who, shall we say, aren't as diligent about snow removal. I thought about taking some before/after images, but I think said neighbors think it's weird enough that I'm clearing their sidewalks, and taking photos of same might be a bit much.

Also, I thought that it would be very hard to do this at 20 degrees below freezing, but my ice chopper worked very well and quickly. I wonder if the ice is more brittle when it's colder, and that's why?