February 8, 2015 | Categories: Photography | Tags: above, andor, andorius, below, braving the cold, bridge, cars, city, downtown, fence, freeway, glow, highway, i94, interstate, light trails, lights, long exposure, looking through, minneapolis, minnesota, mississippi river, night, night time, pattern, photo, photos, pics, picture, pictures, railing, shot, shots, skyline, street lights, traffic, trees, twin cities, urban, winter | Leave a comment
We are fortunate to have a picturesque waterfall, within the urban sprawl of the Twin Cities. Minnehaha falls, a very popular spectacle. I’ve taken pictures of it before, but had not investigated what is possibly it’s most awesome feature in a long time. Over the years, the falls have eroded a sizable amount of rock out from behind it. Making it possible to wander behind the beautiful waterfall. The ice laden cavern was about three times wider than My last visit, some 10+ years ago. Allowing for some pretty rad pictures. Sediment captured in the ice gave a pretty cool rainbow effect in some sections. Awesome stuff!
January 24, 2015 | Categories: Photography | Tags: accumulation, amazing, andor, awesome, beautiful, behind, beneath, cave, cavern, cold, color, colors, creek, dark, earth, eroded, erosion, falls, flow, flows, formation, formations, freezing, frozen, ice, icey, icicle, icicles, icy, image, inside, layers, lovely, middle america, midwest, minn, minneapolis, minnehaha, minnesota, mn, mpls, natural, nature, photo, photograph, photographer, photographs, photography, photos, pic, pics, picture, pictures, place, pretty, rad, rainbow, river, scenery, scenic, sediment, selfe, shoot, shooting, shot, shots, silhouette, sneak, sneaking, splendid, still, stream, sunlight, tunnel, twin cities, under, view, waterfall, waterfalls, winter, wonderland | Leave a comment
January 18, 2015 | Categories: Photography | Tags: bedrock, cascade, chasing waterfalls, cliff, creek, explore, falls, flow, flows, formation, formations, freezing, frozen, ice, icey, icicle, icicles, icy, image, images, ledge, natural, nature, osceola, photo, photograph, photographer, photography, photos, pic, pics, picture, pictures, river, snow, snowy, stepped, town, valley, water, waterfall, wi, winter, wisconsin | Leave a comment
January 15, 2015 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 2015, 35e, andor, cloud, clouds, color, dusk, freeway, highway, january, minnesota, photo, photograph, pic, picture, road trip, shoot, shot, side of the road, sun, sunset, travel, trees | Leave a comment
Yep, I made a video! There’s a first time for everything… The first three quarters took Me about 2 hours to patch together, from clips made after each time I shot a sequence. The song took a couple days of semi-inspired attention. The last segment of the video however, took 3 weeks to edit. Mostly because I used StarStax to make 5 versions of the sequences. Then, I had to pluck the right spots from those in small chunks, reverse the numbering order on half of them, make videos of each of those sections, then finally patch them all together and time them to the music. The result? Dancing stars! Watch through the end and see what I am on about..
As with all the vids on this blog, it is hosted for free by Vimeo. So it is of low image quality, watching it on their site does look slightly better than watching it here… So sad, because it looks awesome in 4K! Vimeo also neglected to keep the music synced with the video! :( No wonder I refuse to pay them a penny!
December 29, 2014 | Categories: Photography, Time Lapse | Tags: andor, andorius, awesome, beautiful, buildings, capitol, check it out, cities, city, clip, clips, cloud, clouds, commute, construction, country, countryside, crane, cranes, dark, downtown, eclipse, edit, edited, evening, film, forest, freeway, good, grass, highway, horizon, hosted, lake, lapse, lapsing, luna, minneapolis, minnesota, mn, moon, motion, nature, night, original, park, parking lot, pit lane, pond, race track, road, roof top, rooftop, saint paul, scenic, segment, sequence, sequences, skies, sky, skyline, star, star trails, stars, startrails, state park, state parks, street, sun, superior, the heavens, time, time lapse, timelapse, town, traffic, tree, trees, twin cities, urban, vid, video, videos, vids, wilderness | Leave a comment
December 29, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: angle, angles, awesome, beautiful, bedrock, chasing, cliff, close the the twin cities, cold, cool, creek, edge, exploration, explore, exposure, falls, flow, flowing, flows, forest, frost, frosty, hike, hiking, hoar, hoarfrost, ice, icey, icicle, icicles, levels, logs, long, long exposure, lovely, moss, natural, nature, near the twin cities, photo, photograph, photos, pics, picture, pictures, rapids, river, river bed, rock, rocky, scenic, snow, state park, stepped, stone, stream, sweet, tiers, travel, tree, trees, valley, view, water, waterfall, waterfalls, wi, willow, winter, wisconsin, wonder | Leave a comment
December 29, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 35e, angular, architecture, art museum, bridge, building, campus, cities, city, cityscape, cityscapes, cloudy, contrast, dark, downtown, evening, fog, foggy, frank gehry, freeway, gehry, glow, haze, highway, i94, icon, iconic, image, junction, landscape, light, lights, long exposure, metal, metro, minn, minneapolis, minnesota, mist, misty, mn, mpls, museum, night, nights, northern, photo, photography, photos, picture, pictures, reflection, saint paul, scenic, skyline, skyscraper, skyscrapers, stairs, stairway, steps, structure, style, traffic, train, transit, twin cities, u of m, university, uofm, urban, view, walk, wander, washington ave, weisman | Leave a comment
In the past, I would take long exposure shots of the night sky. 30 minutes for a single photo was a normal affair. Last summer however, I started shooting time lapse sequences. Setting up My camera to automatically take a picture at what ever interval is desired, changed things up a lot. I found Myself going camping and letting My camera run, aimed toward the heavens while I slept. At first I was taking the resulting photos and making videos. Which is quite cool, watching the stars fly by at high speed. Not very long ago I found a free program called StarStax and have added another dimention to the time lapses I’ve been shooting. There is a video in the works, but it won’t be ready for a while. So, here are the stacked still images of a few of the night sky time lapses I captured this year.
Starting with this gem, which was a 5 and a half hour long series of 1,000 images. Nearly a quarter of earth’s rotation, viewed in one still shot. For those who are curious, The moon was on the other side of the earth and My Canon 6D with 24mm lens were set up as follows: Manual mode, f/1.4(focused on the stars), ISO 640, white balance 5400K, shutter speed of 13 seconds, taking a picture every 15 seconds. There is no edit involved, except running the images through StarStax. The second shot is the same image set, with “comet mode” selected in StarStax, no other edits…
I’m particularly proud of that time lapse! The rest of these were taken with Similar settings, at different locations over the last 6 months. Sadly, the moon was in the sky for all of them but the last one, so there are less stars visible compared to the above shots. Even so, They look pretty cool. If I say so Myself… It’s been cloudy here for weeks, but as soon as I get a chance, there will be more coming.
December 19, 2014 | Categories: Photography, Time Lapse | Tags: amazing, andor, awesome, axis, brush, constellation, constellations, cool, digital, distance, distant, earth's, edit, edited, ethereal, focus, foreground, forest, fun, grass, horizon, image, images, layer, layered, layers, light, lights, long exposure, looking up, natural, nature, night, photo, photograph, photographs, photography, photos, pic, pics, picture, pictures, polar, race track, road, rotation, sharp, shooting star, shooting stars, sight, sky, stack, stacked, stacking, star, star trails, stars, starstax, streak, streaks, the heavens, time lapse, track, trails, tree, trees, turns, usa international raceway, usair, view | Leave a comment
December 16, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: bird house, bridge, bridges, building, buildings, city, cityscape, cloudy, dam, damm, downtown, drain, fixture, floating, flowing, flows, focus, fog, foggy, grate, haze, ice, iceburg, iceburgs, iced, icey, icy, iron, island, light, lights, main, metal, minn, minneapolis, minnesota, mississippi, mist, misty, mn, mpls, nicollet, path, photograph, photographer, photographs, photography, pic, pics, picture, pictures, pole, river, saint anthony, sky, skyline, skyscraper, skyscrapers, smoke, snow, span, stack, stacks, stairs, steam, steps, stone arch, town, truss, twin cities, urban, view, walkway | Leave a comment
December 15, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: bedrock, brush, cliff, cold, contrast, creek, destination, falls, form, formation, formations, freezing, frozen, grass, huge, ice, iced, icey, icicle, icicles, icon, iconic, icy, laden, landmark, layered, layers, ledge, long exposure, long exposures, longexposure, metro, minn, minneapolis, minnehaha, minnesota, minnesotan, mn, mpls, popular, river bed, rock, rocky, scenic, sheet, sights, small, snow, snowy, stone, stream, tree, trees, twin cities, twincities, urban, valley, view, wall, water, waterfall, waterfalls, winter, wintery | Leave a comment
December 14, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 94, bridge, bridges, bright, buildings, cities, city, cityscape, downtown, downtowns, exhaust, freeway, glow, highway, i94, image, images, interstate, landscape, light, light trails, lights, lighttrails, lit, long exposure, longexposure, minn, minneapolis, minneapple, minnesota, minnesotan, mississippi, mn, mpls, night, nights, pair, photograph, photography, picture, pictures, pig's eye, pigseye, places, reflection, river, saint paul, scape, shot, shots, skyline, skyscaper, skyscrapers, st paul, st.p, stp, street, streets, traffic, trails, twin, twincities, two, urban, view, views | Leave a comment
December 14, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: branches, celestial, earthly, evening, full, gibbous, half, half moon, luna, moon, nature, skies, sky, the heavens, tree, waxing, winter | Leave a comment
December 14, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 2am, city, empty, frogtown, green line, lexington, light, light trails, lightrail, lights, lighttrails, long exposure, longexposure, midway, minnesota, mn, night, nights, passing by, photo, photography, picture, pig's eye, quiet, rail, saint paul, st paul, station, stop, tracks, train, university | Leave a comment
December 14, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: close-up, covered, flower, flowers, garden, ice, plant, plants, snow, snowy, winter, yellow | Leave a comment
December 14, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 2am, autumn, clouds, como, como park, conservatory, dark, fall, framed, glow, late, light trails, lights, longexposure, luna, midway, minnesota, mn, moon, night, park, path, photo, photographer, photography, photos, picture, pictures, reflection, saint paul, st paul, st.p, stairs, steps, traffic, trail, tree, trees, view, views | Leave a comment
December 14, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: angry, animals, bed, bengal, bengals, bred, breed, calico, carpet, cat, cats, crazy, curious, cute, domestic, domesticated, energetic, feline, felines, fur, fury, fuzzball, hater, kitties, kitty, meow, meow meow, pattern, pet, pets, picture, pictures, playfull, pose, shadow, variety, whiskers, wiley | Leave a comment
December 9, 2014 | Categories: Automotive Photography, Photography | Tags: 240sx, angle, angles, auto, bend, bent, cage, car, cars, custom, cutting, drift, fab, fabricating, fabrication, man at work, metro, midwest, minneapolis, minnesota, mn, oppomoto, opposition motors, prep, roll, rollcage, ryan clemens, shop, sparks, tmfopposiotion, tubes, tubing, twin cities, weld, welded, welding, welds, work, workshop | Leave a comment
That’s right, I went on yet another one night camping excursion. This time, My brother, our friend Ryan and I headed to Mille Lacs Kathio State Park. The site that I booked was nicely secluded, located on a beaver laden pond, it made for a very pleasant night. Hiking the trail out to our weekend home, it was clear that we were in a part of the park that most people rarely visit. This was certainly one of the most picturesque places that I have been lately. With any luck, I shall camp at this spot again once winter is in full swing. I didn’t take a ton of pictures during the day, instead opting to focus on capturing the stars in the night’s sky. For the first time, I had good luck too. There were no clouds that night and the moon was on the other side of the planet. One couldn’t ask for better conditions to capture the vast expanse of stars.
Most of the day time was spent being lazy as hell. I did set up My cameras to catch a couple of time lapses, but did not take the time to set up My shots very well. Even so, I made a quick video of what I did manage to catch. At this rate, I am going to have to pay Vimeo, so You can all see what I’ve been doing in a reasonable resolution. :( Go ahead, have a look, there’s some nice stuff mixed in to the medeocre day time lapses. I do suggest hitting the misleading “HD” button, which brings You away from here and on to Vimeo’s site to watch it. The quality is slightly more appreciable.
Just after pausing by a map, to see where we were and staopping to take a quick shadow selfie, the path led us to the remains of a tree, about 7 feet tall and completely hollowed out by woodpeckers. Happily, they made a hole near the base, the perfect size to squeeze a camera into.
We did not see any bears, but definately spotted their droppings. There were a few little garter snakes slithering around and plenty of odd varieties of fungus growing all about. I really do love the wilderness! Why did I have to be born in to the city life? Hopefully one day I will be able to afford to move out of the urban environment, I would be a much happy’er person.
October 28, 2014 | Categories: Photography, Random Thoughts, Time Lapse | Tags: andor, andorius, animated, animation, bright, brown rainbow, camp, camping, clear, clip, constellation, constellations, country, dark, day, dusk, endless blue, ethereal, foreground, forest, fun, fungus, garter, glow, grass, grassy, hike, hiking, hole, hollow, horizon, kathio, lapse, leaves, light, lit, map, middle america, midwest, mille lacs, minnesota, mn, moshroom, mullet, mushrroms, night, orion, outdoors, park, path, photo, photographer, pics, pictures, pond, rural, scenery, scenic, secluded, selfie, shadow, shadows, site, skies, sky, snake, snakes, star, stars, state, state park, stills, striped, stripes, stump, sunny, temperate, the heavens, time, timelapse, trail, tree, trees, undergrowth, video, view, wild, wilderness, wooded, woods | Leave a comment
October 24, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 2014, andor, andorius, bright, crescent, eclipse, flare, glow, lens flare, luna, minnesota, moon, october, partial, passing, penumbra, photographer, reflection, sky, solar, solareclipse, spots, star, sun, sun spot, sun spots, sunspots, twin cities | Leave a comment
Saint Paul, Minnesota. Downtown, as seen from the overlook, above Univeristy Ave, next to the state capitol building. This 15 second time lapse took about 30 minutes to shoot.
October 20, 2014 | Categories: Photography, Time Lapse | Tags: 2014, 24mm 1.4l ii, animated, blue, buildings, canon 6d, cities, city, cloud, clouds, downtown, evening, lapse, luna, minnesota, mn, moon, motion, moving, october, photography, pig's eye, pigseye, polarizer, river valley, saint paul, scenery, sky, skyline, skyscraper, skyscrapers, st paul, time, timelapse, trains, twin, twincities, urban | Leave a comment
As many of You know, there was a total lunar eclipse this morning. I wandered out of the house at 3:30am to find a good spot to shoot it from. Not far from home, I set up My tripod, dialed in the intervalometer and captured some of the event in the sky, among other things. This shot, is the first time I’ve ever done image stacking. Needs some improvement. I know..
That should give You a rough idea of what some of this video looks like. I did a much wider time lapse, consisting of 160, 15 second exposures, which were taken every 18 seconds. I then repositioned and zoomed in, taking 400 shots, 3 seconds apart, with a closer view of the neighboring city’s skyline. As the night becomes day, one can see the massive cranes, constructing the new Vikings stadium on the left side of downtown. Which is impressive, considering they are about seven miles away. The sun came up as the moon was setting, which ended up bleaching out the shot just before Luna dropped out of view. Vimeo’s free accounts don’t give a very good image quality, but it does look a little better if You watch it on their site, instead of mine. :(
October 8, 2014 | Categories: Photography, Time Lapse | Tags: 2x multiplier, 3am, 5am, 6am, 6d, 70-200mm 2.8, animated, animation, blood, bright, canon, city, clip, crane, cranes, dark, day, daylight, dock, downtown, eclipse, full, glowing, hub, industry, lapse, lights, lines, luna, lunar, midway, midwest, minn, minneapolis, minnesota, mn, moon, moonset, morning, mpls, night, october, orbit, penumbra, photo, photographer, photos, pictures, power line, power lines, rail, scenic, set, setting, shadow, shots, sigma, sky, skyline, skyscraper, skyscrapers, stack, stacked, still, telephoto, time, timelapse, total, tower, traffic, train, trains, umbra, video, view, waning, waxing, zoom | Leave a comment
October 5, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: asparagus, autumn, back.head, backyard, bread, brother, bun, burd, cheese, colorful, cooked, dinner, eats, evening, fall, family, fire, fire pit, fire ring, food, foodformybelly, garnish, girl, gorganzola, hair, halo, knit, meal, midway felix, minnesota, mushroom, pasta, photo, picture, plate, plated, plating, sauce, slice, sliced, slices, small, steak, supper, sweater, white, yard | Leave a comment
Here is the Video!
September 15, 2014 | Categories: Photography, Time Lapse | Tags: andor, andorius, animated, animation, avery, carlos avery, cloud, clouds, country, digital, ether, ethereal, field, film, fog, foggy, forest, grass, grassy, heavens, landscape, lapse, lookingup, lookup, middle america, minnesota, mn, motion, move, moving, night, nighttime, photo, photographer, photography, photos, pictures, refuge, rotation, rural, shoot, shooting, shot, skies, sky, star, stars, time, time lapse, timelapse, tree, trees, video, wildlife refuge | Leave a comment
September 15, 2014 | Categories: Automotive Photography, Photography | Tags: 1954, 1977, 240sx, 54, 77, angles, area, autos, blue, bubble, c10, c15, c20, car, cars, chevrolet, chevy, chrome, classic, clean, clemens, detail, garage, gmc, grande, light, lights, lines, long, long bed, look, mechanic, mechanic's, minnesota, mirror, mirrors, moto, motoring, motors, oppo, oppomoto, opposition, pickup, pics, pictures, plain, project, projects, ryan, ryan clemens, s10, s13, september 2014, shiny, shop, sierra, square, style, tmfopposition, truck, two-tone, view, white, wiring | Leave a comment
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