August 19, 2015 | Categories: Photography | Tags: city, freight, frogtown, image, images, infrastructure, lines, logistics, long exposure, longexpo, midway, minnesota, mn, night, photo, pics, picture, power, rails, saint paul, sky, st paul, tower, tracks, train, twin cities, urban | 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 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
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
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
May 10, 2014 | Categories: Photography | Tags: 2014, above, andor, angle, art, barge, barges, blog, bridges, building, cars, city, clouds, color, colors, downtown, engine, flowing, freight, graf, graff, graffiti, grafitti, images, industry, looking, march, minn, minnesota, missippippi, mn, mounds park, photo, photograph, photographs, piece, rail, rails, river, saint paul, shots, sight, skyline, smoke stack, smokestack, spring, st paul, stationary, stp, street, streetart, tc, track, tracks, train, trains, twin cities, twincities, urban, view, yard | Leave a comment
USA International Raceway, a cart track just outside of Shawano, Wisconsin. No carts are buzzing around the track today though, Drift Day Fourty-Six has arrived. The squealing and smoking of tires, rapidly burning through layers of rubber has come again. Lots of familiar faces and the rolling hills that this particular track is draped over, always make for a good time. The day started at 30 degrees and a thick fog lingered all around.
After an hour or two, the fog had lifted, but there was still an overcasting of grey clouds keeping the sun at bay. Heading indoors to warm up a bit, I ran into more Minnesotans and We did that which We do..
In the early afternoon, the temps were into the 40’s and the sun popped out for fifteen minutes or so, allowing time for a race of those with skateboards. Around half the oval at the top of the hill and down past the pits, through a couple of turns, to the lowest point of the track. There are also a few shots of some of the guys playing about on pit lane.
There were a few hours of clear running. As anticipated however, the rain began again. Half of the drivers kept drifting for a little bit, before people packed up and headed towards their hometowns. I ate a lot of ribs this weekend, from two different places. Not to mention hash browns, fries, fried chicken, bratwurst and a bags worth of dried meats and candy. I also bowled one of My best games, took a personal low number of five hundred pictures, while standing in the clouds of many, now destroyed tires and got to see a bunch of My friends that live hundreds of miles away from Me. Thanks to the homies at ClubFR for bringing these events together, year after year…
October 25, 2013 | Categories: Automotive Photography, Random Thoughts | Tags: 2013, 240, 240sx, 300zx, 350z, 46, 86, best, bleak, bmw, burning rubber, car, carolla, cars, cart, chilly, club fr, clubfr, cold, convertible, coupe, dd, dd46, dirty love, down hill, downhill, drift, drift day, drifting, event, fall, fog, foggy, friends, fun, good times, grip gambler, hachi, hatch, hills, hooligans, image, images, junkhouse, lexus, ls1, mazda, memories, miata, midwest, minnesotans, nissan, october, people, photos, picture, pictures, pit lane, pits, pix, race, raceway, rainy, risky devil, rocket bunny, rollercoaster of love, rx7, s13, s14, sc300, shawano, short, shot, sideways, skate, skateboard, skaters, sliding, smoke, tandem, tire, tmfopposition, track, train, usair, v8, wet, wisconsin | Leave a comment
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