Day 12...Night Skyline

NIGHT SKYLINE

Tonight's shot is, again, one that's been done many times by many people.  But our lovely city of Minneapolis begs to be photographed, especially anywhere near the Stone Arch Bridge.  

Tonight I went on a little adventure and took shots from several different angles and got several different outcomes.  It was hard to select an image once again for each one had a uniqueness about it.  Tonight I ellicited help from my mom, and she helped me narrow it down to this one.

I've said before that I love to take images of the sky and the skylines of the city.  Tonight the weather was perfect for it, and the city was just sparkling in its glory.  Though many have photographed from this very spot and likely nearly this exact photo, this one is my own for my collection and I'm excited I had the oppotunity to get these shots.

The funnest part about photographing the Minneapolis skyline and including its surrounding bridges at night is the difference in all the lighting and colors.  And I especially love that in the area that we were in tonight, just a few steps one way to the left or right or a few steps up or down the stairs, and the city looked completely different.  

This project is coming along way better than I expected and I can't wait for each passing day to see what comes to mind and comes to life in print.

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Day 4 ... Baby...It's Cold Outside

BABY...IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!!!!!

This particular shot is something that goes pretty far outside the norm for me.  #1, I took it on my tablet rather than my regular DSLR.  #2, I added post-process macros to it (HDR-ish).  I actually don't mind the super processed look it has.  

The photo was taken on Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis.  I couldn't resist this particular shot because it epitomized what Downtown Minneapolis is to me in the winter...kind of sparkly, lit up.  

Again, probably not something I'd hang on my wall, but something I'll look back on and it will bring back the memory of what I was doing this night, and I'll smile for it was the end of a really great evening.

Day 1 ... Start a photo project? Sure. Why not?

Start a photo project?  Sure.  Why not?

I've wanted to do it for a long time.  I contemplated...should I do a 365, 52?  I decided since I love photography so much, what the heck, go for the 365.  I wanted to do a theme.  And realistically since portraiture is something I'd really like to focus more time on, I thought that would be the perfect theme.  But I feel like it would be too hard to do a different portrait every day of the year mostly because who would I take portraits of EVERY DAY?  I guessed there would just be many self portraits, and I seem to have plenty of those.  There would also be many portraits of my daughter, and she's already totally annoyed with the amount I photograph her.

So I made my project a theme, but general enough that I could keep it interesting with a different photo every day.  So here we go.  The theme I chose is OUTSIDE.  I didn't want to do just nature or just cityscape or something so constraining.  I figure I will be forced to go outside no matter the weather or the location.  I'll be able to get super creative this way.

I'm very excited!

Now, admittedly, I'm starting my very first day by cheating slightly.  This is going to be the only day I actually cheat if I can help it.  But I waited until kind of late in the day before I made my decision to do this, and it's dark outside.  I do have every intention to push myself and include night shots.  However, I currently don't have a tripod, and I took some shots the other day that I thought would be a great first start.

So DAY 1 I took two days ago.  It was about 10 degrees below zero that day.  I wanted to do some outdoor shots while I was bumming around Minneapolis.  So I ventured out to the Stone Arch Bridge.  The river was gorgeous because in the surrounding parts of the river, the water was frozen, but because of the moving water, the falls were still flowing.  Also because of the extreme cold, the water was steaming.  I popped off a few shots real quick, and my fingers were frozen within seconds.  It was dangerously cold.  I couldn't stay out there any longer, so this is the best shot I got.

Cheers to a wonderfully creative photographic 2014.

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