May 5, 2015 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 2015, 35e, buildingsbridge, cars, church, city, cityviews, downtown, evening, exposure, freeway, highway, i94, in, infrastructure, interchange, junction, light, light trails, lights, lighttrails, line, long, long expo, long exposure, longexpo, longexposure, metro, middle america, midwest, minnesota, mn, night, of, photo, photograph, photographer, photos, pic, picture, pictures, pig's eye, pix, post, saint paul, shot, shots, sky, skyline, spring, st paul, traffic, trails, twin cities, twincities, urban | Leave a comment
March 22, 2015 | Categories: Photography, Time Lapse | Tags: 2015, beautiful, bridge, bridges, canon, city, clip, cloud, clouds, colorful, colors, contrast, downtown, foreground, glow, handheld, landscape, lapse, march, metro, minnesota, mississippi river, mn, nature, photo, photography, photos, picture, pictures, power lines, pretty, river, saint paul, scenery, sequence, setting, shot, shots, silhouette, silhouetted, skies, sky, skyline, sring, st paul, st. pual, sun, sun set, sunset, sunsets, tamron, time, timelapse, tree, tripod, twin cities, twincities, urban, vid, video, vivid, winter | 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
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 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
I went out to shoot some time lapse stuff with My friend Thai Phan Quang. We ended up on the walking bridge over 35W, a few bocks south of the I94 junction again. I am trying to stockpile a bunch of different time lapse series so I can eventually make a video which contains nothing but time lapsed segments. This is a single, 1500 image sequence from rush hour today. It lasts a little longer than 45 seconds. I was hoping for more cloud activity, but since there was very little, it seemed right to frame things just above the tallest buildings. The music is by My big Brother’s band: Heiruspecs. The song is ‘Snapshot’ off of their most recent album, Night Falls.
After shooting that sequence, I did some small perspective changes and adjustments. Going for a slightly different feel, by blurring the traffic a little bit. Then shot this twelve second set, consisting of 500 images. Hope You enjoy this silent, short one. Not in HD, because I don’t pay Vimeo and am limited to one, high quality upload per week.
August 12, 2014 | Categories: Photography, Random Thoughts | Tags: 17-50mm 2.8, 30fps, 35w, 480p, 720p, afternoon, andor, andorblogs, animate, animated, animation, bridge, bridges, buildings, canon, capture, capturing, cars, city, commute, congestion, day, daylight, daytime, definition, down town, downtown, evening, film, flow, franklin, freeway, gridlock, hd, heiruspecs, highway, hour, junction, lane, lanes, lapse, light, link, links, long, metro, metropolis, metropolitan, midwest, minn, minneapolis, minnesota, mn, motion, moving, mpls, pair, photo, photographic, photography, photos, quality, resolution, road, roads, rush, rush hour, scenery, sequence, set, sky scraper, skyline, skyscraper, skyscrapers, slow, snapshot, south minneapolis, stream, street, streets, summer, sunny, system, t4i, tamron, time, timelapse, town, traffic, trucks, twin cities, twincities, two, urban, vid, video, vids, view, vimeo | Leave a comment
July 21, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 180, 2014, 20th, air, animate, animated, animation, art, artwork, ave, avenue, awesome, bank, banked, bars, board, brick, building, charcter, cheese, city, colorful, curb, dead end, deadend, deck, doing, doing it, face, fakie, flip, gate, get there, getting, gif, grab, graf, graff, graffiti, graffitti, grafitti, grind, guys, heavy metal, heavymetal, hm, hot, inner city, innercity, july, kick, land, landed, landing, merica, metro, midway, midwest, minneapolis, minnesota, moton, mpls, much, mucho, mural, nose, nosegrind, ollie, pro, rad, rail, ride, riding, road, rotate, rotation, saint paul, scene, skate, skate or die, skateboard, skateordie, skater, skaters, skating, slick, slide, spin, st paul, stairs, stairway, step, steps, street, streetart, streets, summer, tail, take flight, train, trick, tricks, turn, twin cities, twincities, uni, university, urban, wall, youth | Leave a comment
Last night, I went out with a friend who is in to time lapse photography. Which basically means You will be sitting in one place for a couple of hours. So, I set up My tripod and proceeded to take a bunch of long exposures. These pictures captured something more than just the lights of buildings and cars passing by. The lights of the vehicles revealed the vibration of the bridge upon which we stood. That bridge being a walk-way, maybe eight feet wide, spanning the ten lanes of traffic on I-35W, just south of the I-94 junction. It was pretty windy early on, but it was the semi trucks that were causing the bulk of the motion. You can see in the cropped image below, the effect of a large vehicle passing underneath. Head lights apear as if the highway was a row of small waves, with increased hight when a large truck goes by.
Despite the constant vibration and the rain early on, I came through with some decent shots of downtown Minneapolis. They are not a crisp as I would like, but the texture added to the streaking lights is kind of nice. A neutral density filter, which I usually do these kind of shots with, was not involved. I will try that spot again sometime, but clearly a more stable position to do long exposure shots with traffic and the city skyline is more desirable. This is a great vantage point though, there aren’t many places in town with such a nice perspective.
June 7, 2014 | Categories: Photography, Random Thoughts | Tags: 35w, andor, awesome, backpack, bag, beautiful, blur, bridge, buildings, camera, canon t4i, cars, city, cityscape, cloudy, cool, down town, downtown, dusk, evening, exposure, fence, fences, fencing, foreground, freeway, glow, going by, hanging, headlights, highway, hole, holes, hue, i35, illuminated, junction, june, landscape, lanes, light, lighting, lights, long exposure, look through, looking through, metro, middle america, midwest, minn, minneapolis, minnesota, mn, mpls, night, odd, orange glow, passing, peer, phenomenon, phillips, phone, photo, photographs, photography, picture, pictures, platform, point, resonance, resonating, scape, scenery, shakey, shaking, sigma 30mm, single shot, sitting, skyline, snaking, south, stability, stand, stool, streak, streaked, streaks, subject, symetrical, symetry, tall, tamron 17-50mm, time, town, traffic, tripod, twin cities, twincities, urban, vantage, vibration, view, vribrating, waiting, walkway, wave, wavelength, wierd, wobble | Leave a comment
I headed south of town to see some friends and have a peak at the drift truck one of them is building. Destination: Modern Automotive Performance, which has a nice shop for doing fabrication and modifications of many varieties. Several drift drivers work here, among other mechanics with different taste in cars and style. Personally, I like walking into shops like this. Older cars, made to be clean, show quality machines. New sports cars being upgraded, custom builds of all kinds, even on motorcycles. About two dozen cars packed into a not so small work space.
There were several incarnations of Evo’s, in various states. While most were street cars, with light modifications. Some were clearly drag cars, parachute brakes and all. The black, carbon fiber laden Mustang was pretty nice looking. As was the old Celica, pictured from the front, with it’s hood up.
Below, is Andrew’s Chevy S10 pickup truck, which is being rebuilt from the frame up. Quite literally, the frame, shock mounts, structure, and wider fenders have all been cut out and made from scratch. Having already gone with a Nissan 240sx with the engine from it’s japanese variant, as well as a v8 fox body Mustang and a 1jz in a Nissan pickup, He has opted to use a turbo-charged Toyota 2j-series engine. I am quite curious to see how this truck does on the track once it is assembled. It will certainly look and sound interesting.
March 16, 2014 | Categories: Automotive Photography, Random Thoughts | Tags: 1j, 1jz, 240, 240sx, 350z, 7, 8, 9, american, auto, automotive, back, bike, bmw, boxer, buggie, buggy, build, building, built, camaro, car, carbon, carolla, cars, chevrolet, chevy, classic, clean, constructing, cooper, coupe, craft, custom, customized, dirty love, dirtylove, drift, engine, evo, evolution, exhaust, fab, fabricated, fabrication, fender, fenders, fiber, ford, front, garage, german, good, gt, hachi, hand, hatch, hatchback, import, is, is250, is300, japanese, jdm, lancer, lexus, lift, m.a.p., m.a.performance, map, maperformance, metro, midwest, mini, minnesota, mistubishi, mn, mod, modern, modernautomotiveperformance, modification, modifications, modified, modify, motorcycle, mount, mr, muscle, mustang, nice, nissan, performance, pick, pickup, pipes, pontiac, pro, ps13, radiator, rear engine, s10, s13, sedan, shock towers, shop, side, sports, ss, station wagon, subaru, toyota, transplant, truck, tuned, tuner, turbo, twin cities, under, under-carriage, undercarriage, underneath, up, usdm, vehicle, wagon, work, workshop | 3 Comments
August 31, 2013 | Categories: Photography | Tags: bluff, bridge, capitol, city, clouds, cloudy, dark, downtown, dusk, evening, lights, lit, lowertown, metro, midwest, minnesota, mississippi, mn, mounds, overcast, overlook, paul, photo, picture, pig's eye, pigseye, rain, river, saint, scud, silhouette, sky, skyline, st, storm, summer, town, twin cities, urban, water | Leave a comment
