SLEEPY WINTER CITY
I'm not sure how I'm really feeling about this image/post at all. I really want to try to get away from landscape and city shots all over the place. But today was another one of those days that would have been perfect to strap on some snowshoes, go for a walk, and find some fantastic wintery wonderland to photograph. However, due to the extreme inconvenience of me having to work full time at a JOB that is not photography, I just didn't have a decent amount of time to do what I would have liked to obtain my shot of the day.
But as I was headed out to pick my daughter up, I saw the sun going down. I really did NOT want another sunset photo. But I thought if I waited just a bit longer, I could catch the blue hour, and I know how sparkly St. Paul can be when the sun goes down. There are so many places around the city where I would love to position myself to get a good angle of the city. However, a lot of them aren't friendly to foot traffic, or I'd have to park far away and walk across a bridge or something that wouldn't exactly be safe.
So tonight I decided to head up to Mounds Park and see what the city would look like right when the sun sank under the horizon and everything went blue. This is what I got, your typical cityscape skyline. I think it's nice, but I'm going to try to go in a different direction for a while and do what I set out to do in this project and stretch my imagination and creativity and skill so I'm not constantly posting photos of the sun coming up or going down, or photos of all the iconic buildings of downtown St. Paul.
My goal this week is to do at least one great black and white shot and at least one great street photo. We'll see how it goes!
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