A couple of months ago, I met up with Jeff Prose and Bill Kuhn. They’re a pair of photography buffs that I met on Instagram. We had no designated places to aim our cameras and ended up wandering around Saint Paul for half the day. We met up in lower town, walked and snapped pictures a little bit. Then opted visit a few different spots, in search of pretty pictures..
August 24, 2015 | Categories: Photography | Tags: afternoon, andor, andorius, bridge, bridges, buidlings, burial mounds park, casual, cathedral, cities, city, concrete, downtown, dusk, evening, eye, glow, highbridge, hill, image, images, landmarks, light trails, lights, long exposure, longexpo, lowertown, midwest, minnesota, mn, park, paul, paul's, photo, photograph, photos, picture, pictures, picturesque, pigs, pigseye, pillar, pillars, saint paul, scenic, shoot, shot, shots, skyline, st, stone, sun, sun light, sunset, twin, twincities, under the bridge, urban, view, views, walk, walk around | Leave a comment
July 23, 2015 | Categories: Photography | Tags: antenna, antennae, bark, birch, brown, butterflies, butterfly, furry, insect, minnesota, mn, orange, paper birch, picture, pretty, saint paul, shot, tree, twin cities | Leave a comment
Here are a pair of stacked images, each comprised of three pictures taken during a lightning storm this spring. The purplish one was with My 6D, on My front steps. The blue shot was with a t4i, set to time lapse on the roof…
Lightning in the City
Lightning in the City
July 22, 2015 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 2015, bolt, bolts, frogtown, image stack, images, lightning, minnesota, mn, picture, pictures, saint paul, shot, shots, spring, starstax, storm, view | Leave a comment
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
Over the winter, I went on a bit of a sunset time-lapsing spree. I am hoping to continue this trend, but have been kind of lazy about finding nice places to shoot from. The overlook on the north end of Burial Mounds Park, here in Pig’s Eye(the original name of Saint Paul, MN) has been My go to spot thus far. It’s a seriously awesome view of My home town, but I’m left feeling the need to change up the scenery..
Well, here’s another sunset from said location, taken in late March. I was shooting a pretty good sequence, but stopped it at an awkward spot, in order to shoot the second sequence. Which turned out to be pretty magical, less the single frame with an airplane in the foreground. =\ Suppose that’s the price You pay for shooting through the landing path of a small airport. Above, is a layered image. Using StarStax to merge every 25th picture from the second time lapse. Below are the first and last shots from the day. If You hit the “HD” button on the media player and watch it on vimeo’s site, it looks slightly better…
May 4, 2015 | Categories: Photography, Time Lapse | Tags: afterglow, andor, andorius, bold, capitol, city, cloudporn, clouds, colors, downtown, edit, epic, evening, glow, hometown, image stack, lens flare, light beams, light trails, lights, long exposure, longexpo, march, minnesota, mn, night, photo, photos, picture, pictures, pig's eye, pigseye, rays, saint paul, setting, shoot, shot, shots, silhouette, sky, skyline, skyporn, sol, spring, st paul, st.p, starstax, still motion, sun, sunset, time lapse, timelapse, tl, twin cities, urban, view | Leave a comment
Year twelve of ClubFR’s Drift Day events has begun. I’ve gone to about half of them and always had a good time.. It was great to see so many familiar faces and spend some time talking to friends from far away! DD51 was a bit odd for Me though. I was very lazy for the first half of the day and then managed to snap off almost three thousand pictures in about four hours. It wasn’t the best day photography-wise. I shot a lot with sunglasses, which always makes for bright pictures. My success rate was pretty low too, only 1 in 10 pictures was acceptable. I probably should have done some editing, a few of these got darkened/brightened, but this is pretty much how they were shot.
Below is a pair of short time lapses I shot before the track went hot and during the lunch break. Because I love shooting time lapses… After that, is the 300ish pictures that weren’t too blurry to post. :) May load slowly!
April 27, 2015 | Categories: Automotive Photography, Time Lapse | Tags: 2015, 240, 240sx, 350z, 51, ae86, angle, april, bmw, body kit, brz, burning rubber, car, cars, clouds, club sandwich, clubfr, cressida, cresta, crew, custom, damage, day, dd51, dirty love, drift, drift car problems, driftday, drifting, e30, e36, event, events, fab, fc, fc3s, frs, glitter, gnar, grip gambler, hachi, images, jzx, kitted, livery, mazda, middle america, midwest, mkiii, moonlighter, nissan, pair, photo, photograph, photographs, picture, pictures, proceed, race, s13, s14, sc300, scion, season, shot, shots, sileighty, silvia, smoke, soarer, solo, spring, start, style, subaru, supra, tandem, team, team proceed, time lapse, timelapse, tire shredding, tire smoke, toyota, track, tracker, trio, usa international raceway, wheel, wheels, wide | 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
March 5, 2015 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 280, bridge, bridges, cars, city, cold, driving, entrance, evening, exit, exposure, freeway, glow, headlights, highway, image, images, intersection, junction, lanes, light, lights, lighttrails, long, longexposure, minneapolis, minnesota, night, overpass, passing, photo, photos, pics, picture, pictures, road, roads, saint paul, shot, shots, still motion, streaks, tail lights, traffic, trails, twilight, twin cities, urban, view, winter | Leave a comment
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 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
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
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
August 4, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 2014, above, accumulation, afternoon, air, andor, andor2000, atmosphere, atmospheric, august, beautiful, big, billowing, blog, blue, cloud, clouds, cloudy, colors, cumulus, day, day time, daytime, deep blue power lines, earthly, evening, fore ground, foreground, formation, forming, glory, grey, huge, look up, looking up, lookup, massive, mountainous, mountains in the sky, natural, nature, passing, photo, photograph, photographs, photography, photos, pic, pics, picture, pictures, puff, puffy, rolling, shot, shots, skies, sky, splendor, storm, summer, sunset, the heavens, thunder, up, white | Leave a comment
I bought a set of screw on macro filters to play with. I was buying an intervalometer to enter in to time lapse photography and adding the filters to the order made it qualify for free shipping, for cheaper than the shipping cost. At twelve dollars, this four piece set made by AGFA is a steal! They simply screw on a lens like a UV, or polarizing filter and allow You to get physically closer to what You are trying to shoot. Not without a hitch though. This 77mm set has been mated to my Sigma 70-200mm f2.8 OS to reduce the minimum focus distance from three and a half feet, down to eight to twelve inches with the +4. The extreme curve of the +4 and +10 filters, dramatically reduces the amount of light intake. So You are pretty much required to shoot in full sun light. On My first try, I used a portable L.E.D. to augment the fading evening light. It worked okay, not great though.
Over the weekend, I was musing pretty hard on My friends garden, so I popped on the +4 filter and had a go in full sun light. The filter reduced the depth of field to nearly nothing. I had to run very tight apertures to get a range of one inch into focus. Using shutter speeds of 125ths, to 400ths of a second, with apertures from 16-22 and My ISO at 400 and 800 in broad daylight was very odd. It did yield some rewards, at a better ratio than the first time, but still only 1 in every 15 shots was acceptable. Half of those were still not quite sharp, but I think I am getting the hang of using these things. Who would have thought that a $12 set of filters could turn a telephoto lens into decent macro shooting optics. It is not as good as buying a 200mm macro lens, but at one, or two percent of the price, WOW. None of the images in this post have been cropped…
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August 4, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: +10, +2, +4, 1, 200mm, 70mm, 77mm, agfa, aperture, beautiful, bee, bees, beetle, beetles, best option, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoming, blossoms, bought on amazon, bumble, bumblebee, burrowing, center, cheap, cheap option, close, close-up, collection, color, colorful, coloring, colors, contrast, core, daylight, eating, exoskeleton, filter, filters, flower, flowering, flowers, fur, furry, fuzzy, garden, gardens, grazing, image, images, img, instect, iridescent, japanese, kit, lens, lenses, light, lighting, lights, macro, middle america, midwest, minnesota, mn, nectar, nice, no coating, no cropping, no multi-coating, oppo moto, oppomoto, petal, petals, photo, photograph, photographic, photos, pic, pics, picture, pictures, pink, pistil, pistils, plant, plants, pollen, pollenating, pretty, range, salmon, see, sharp, shell, shoot, shooting, shot, shots, shutter, sigma 70-200mm, speed, sun, sunlight, twin cities, view, wing, wings, without cropping, yard, yellow, zinnia, zoom | Leave a comment
August 3, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 2014, andor, andorblogs, black, blogs?, bowl, browned, canon, caramel, carmel, chicken, contrast, cook, cooked, cookinginthetwilighthours, digital, dinner, eat, eats, food, fry, glass, green, hot, images, img, imges, late, meal, meat, night, noodles, pea, photo, photograph, photography, photos, pic, pics, picture, pictures, ramen, salty, sauce, savory, seasoned salt, shot, shots, snap.peas, spicey, stir, stirfry, sugar, supper, sweet, t41, tamron 17-50mm f2.8, view | Leave a comment
June 21, 2014 | Categories: Automotive Photography | Tags: 20's, 2014, 30's, 40's, 50s, 60's, a lot, america, american, archer, area, auburn, auto, automobiles, autos, back to the, backtothe50s, backtothefifties, base model, beautiful, bel air, best, big, biggest, biscaine, bling, blue sky, body, boss 302, bright, btt50s, buick, cadillac, car, car show, cars, carshow, chevrolet, chevy, chrome, classic, clean, clear sky, close, closeup, collector, color, continental, convertible, corvette, crowd, crowded, curves, custom, customized, day, decal, decals, deco, decorative, destination, detail, details, display, door, doors, eight, end, event, exhaust, fab, fabrication, fair, fair grounds, fender, fenders, fifties, fixture, flake, flashy, ford, from, front, galleries, gallery, garfield, gathering, glitter, gorgeous, great, grill, grills, grumpy, gryphon, hard top, hood, hot, hot rod, housing, huge, hydraulics, impala, jag, jaguar, light, lights, limo, lincoln, lines, lot, lots, low rider, lowrider, luxury, maintained, massive, mercury, metal, midway, midwest, mini, minn, minnesota, mn, mustang, of, old, older, oldies, olds, oldsmobile, opel, open, openned, ornament, packard, paint, painted, panel, panels, parked, parking lot, part, pearl, people, pic, pics, picture, pictures, pipes, pix, profile, rat rod, rear, rebuilt, restored, retro, rod, rolls, rolls royce, round, rows, saint paul, section, shiny, shot, shots, SHOW, show off, side, sky, spare, sparkle, sparkling, special, spokes, st paul, sticker, style, summer, sunny, super, super charged, super charger, super eight, supercharged, supercharger, swan, taste, thousands, tire, ton, top, towncar, truck, trucks, trunk, turbo, twin cities, variety, vehicle, vehicles, vette, victoria, view, vintage, wheel, wheel well, wheels, window, windows, woody | Leave a comment
June 18, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: avian, back yard, beige, bench, bird, birdies, birds, birdwatching, birdy, black, brown, chirp, environment, feather, feathers, garden, gather, gathering, growing, habitat, head, image, landed, little, middle america, midwest, minnesota, mn, outdoors, perch, perched, photograph, photographs, picture, pictures, saint paul, shoot, shot, shots, sitting, swallow, swallows, twin cities, twincities, urban, wood, yard, young | Leave a comment
Four hours of lightning, rain and swirling winds. Both of My cameras snapping away the whole time and this is the only bolt they captured. Maybe next time there will be more success.
June 15, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 14th, 15th, 2014, all night, andor, bolt, bunk mission, capture, cloud, clouds, elecetric, electricity, image, june, lightning, lines, lone, look up, lookingup, midway, midwest, minnesota, mn, natural, nature, night, one, patience, photograph, photography, pics, pictures, power, power line, purple, rain, saint paul, shooting, shot, silhouette, single, sky, st paul, static, storm, thunderstorm, time, tree, view, waiting | Leave a comment
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June 10, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: andor, andorius, black, black and white, body, celestial, crater, craters, deep, ether, etheral, full, looking up, luna, lunar, mass, moon, nearly full, neighbor, night, off world, outer, pic, picture, scenery, shot, side, sky, solar system, space, surface, the moon, view, waning, waxing, wonder | Leave a comment
Last night, My Brother and I wandered out of the city to find a nice view in the country. It was said there would be a meteor shower, or possibly even a ‘meteor storm.’ We headed east of town, trying to get ahead of the approaching clouds. The shooting stars that we were seeking should have been mostly in the northern sky. We roamed the rural roads north of Hudson, WI for a while, finding a lack of northerly views that weren’t spoiled by peoples lights. Then, there was an openning to the south which revealed an awesome array of stars. We parked in someone’s driveway and proceeded to shoot from there for 2 or more hours. In some of the pictures, You can almost make out the edge of the milky-way. I was however aiming directly at I94, Hudson and the Twin Cities, with all the light pollution they emit. So after a few shots I turned to aim up and above the horizon. Which gave Me the awesome star trails, layered up around the Earth’s northern rotational axis. We only saw a couple of shooting stars, but it was still a great time.
The slightly ghost-like picture at the end was aquired with a 10 second exposure, ISO-800 at an aperture of f/1.4. All pictures taken with a Sigma 30mm 1.4 Ex on My Canon t4i.
May 24, 2014 | Categories: Photography, Random Thoughts | Tags: .jpg, 1am, 2014, 23rd, 24th, 2am, 3am, all night, am, amazing, andor, andorius, aperture, around, axis, beautiful, beauty, capture, capturing, clear, constellation, constellations, country, digital, distance, earth, ether, ethereal, exposure, foreground, ghost, ghostly, gorgeous, high, hill, hudson, images, img, iso, long, low, may, mid-west, middle america, midnight, midwest, natural, nature, night, north america, photo, photograph, photographer, pic, picture, pix, polar, pole, pretty, rings, rotation, rotational, rural, scenery, shoot, shooting, shot, shots, silhouette, sky, somerset, spinning, spotted, star, stars, streak, streaked, streaks, striped, the heavens, tops, trail, trails, tree, trees, twilight, universe, view, views, wi, wisconsin, world | 2 Comments
May 23, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: .jpg, 2014, backyarrd, beautiful, beauty, bloom, blooming, blooms, bold, bright, center, color, colored, coloring, colors, contrast, flower, flowering, flowers, garden, gorgeous, green, images, img, leaves, maroon, may, mid-west, middle america, midwest, multiple, natural, nature, orange, petal, petals, photo, photos, picture, pictures, pink, plant, planted, plants, plum, pretty, purple, shot, soil, spring, stem, streaked, streaks, stripe, sunlight, sunny, three, tulip, tulips, twin cities, yard, yellow | Leave a comment
The first gathering in ClubFR’s 2014 season has come and gone. As expected, there were not a ton of entries. Even so, for the first time, I neglected to take pictures of every car on the track. Many of the guys were just starting to figure out how to keep their cars sliding. Another thing that I chose not to do so much was to point My camera at cars with missing body parts. After nearly a decade of shooting pictures at drift events, half dressed cars have gotten really boring. Making a day of one, 5 hour lap of the advanced course in the traditional UsaIR, dual track layout. Here is what some of what I got for You.
