Photography

Enjoying the full moon on a cold MN night ..

What do you see?

What do you see?

Nature-made water colors …

rippled reflections

I filmed this short clip of nature sounds at the Minnesota River Valley National Wildlife Refuge on a nice walk, Oct 16  around 2PM .. enjoying the Minnesota Fall.   This was my first visit to this park.   When you stop thinking, moving, and enhance your awareness to the present moment things start to become more vivid, colors, sounds… this video attempts to share that experience

You can watch this on youtube and as full screen for a clearer view here: http://www.youtube.com/v/gckSurwx4O8

video description from youtube: Ready for a moment of enhanced awareness?  Maybe see some magic?   look around, listen, watch … Nature sounds, crickets, wind, trail, leaves, sun, valley … this video might offer you a mystical minute of enjoying some awareness to the surrounding nature, shot during a walk at the MN River Valley National Wildlife Refuge (in between the noise from airplanes taking off)

Here is another one, this one is more of a  quick 360 view
You can watch this on youtube and as full screen for a clearer view here: http://www.youtube.com/v/L5eFs_aG_uI

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Watch the sky, clouds, sun, big waves and listen to the sounds… filmed on a pier at Lake Calhoun, Minneapolis MN, on Saturday October 4 2014. Temperature must have been about 45, windy so felt colder.

Walking to pier:

A still video portrait

A still video portrait:

A still video portrait:

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Photo above shows a sumac plant

October 8, 2014 – Chan, MN

A full lunar eclipse, I couldn’t take photos of the full eclipse, the photos below show the blood moon eclipse winding down as the moon was setting between 6 to 7 AM, October 8, 2014

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Fall colors, Chanhassen, MN

Oct 9, 2014

above photo is at highway 212

Below, shows early fall colors in the metro

Below is Red Rock lake in Eden Prairie

First photo shows 3 contrails,

the last 2 photos show multiple chemtrails, at least 3, these are much longer, do not disappear they dissipate into clouds instead

First photo taken about 11AM, last 3 taken about 5PM on the same day from relatively the same location.

07-16-2013

in the AM

Sunrise from a parking lot by a baseball field

in the PM

Evening sunset from a trail 8:20PM

Evening sunset from a trail 8:25ish PM

Standing barefoot on a gravel path to sun gaze (day 2 of sungazing)

First spot, about 5 seconds of sungazing here:

Moved to another spot, sungazed more:

This was the sun I looked directly at

At Murphy Hanrehan

Path, Sky, Calming

Many Have worshiped
One of my favorite celestial objects, the sun.
Photos taken in Savage, MN on 09/23/2012
Make sure to click on the photos for the full-size. Then spend some time exploring the colors of these intense sun rays, look at the clouds, and the areas around the sun for many colorful pieces of natural art curtsey the sun and water vapor.
Why is the sky not blue?  because this is a photo of the sun, not the sky.

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The FULL moon tonight, 9/30/2012, taken with my telescope and DSLR camera at 2AM in Minnesota, the sky is crystal clear.

Enjoy (click the photos to see full size).

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This was my first attempt to take photos with my new telescope and DSLR camera. I’m not using an adapter, but didn’t need one.

This is a photo using the camera alone with my telephoto lens at maximum zoom:
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Notice a difference?  The telescope photos are like mirror images, the telescope images need to be flipped to match what your eyes see.

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Full moon, behind down town Minneapolis, with a frozen lake Calhoun.

Photo taken from lake Calhoun on January 28, 2010 at dusk.

The moon was not directly behind Minneapolis, with some photoshop magic I moved the moon to behind the buildings.

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Shot during the summer of 2004 with a Lumix DMC-FZ7 digital camera
Mankato MN

Street Clouds!

 

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Shot during the summer of 2004 with a Lumix DMC-FZ7 digital camera
Mankato MN

Clouds as Seen on The Ground!   

 

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Shot July 2004 with a Lumix digital camera, Mankato MN

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Shot July 2004 with a Lumix digital camera, Mankato MN

Storm Clouds , Mankato MN Aug 2003

Very much a ‘natural’ phenomena?

Shot February 2004, while driving on highway 169 somewhere between the Twin Cities and the town of St. peter

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“I am not the Artist, Nature is — I only enjoy her art”  ~ Me

September 2003

Soaring clouds and  soaring eagle

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September 2003, Mankato MN

Storm Clouds

July 2003  ::  Southern Minnesota

Shot with an Olympus digital camera

Clouds creating an exclamation (or question) mark!

Even the skies (or heavens) wonder why we humans worship indoors!

Summer of 2003, Mankato, MN, USA, Planet Earth

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June 17, 2003 Mankato MN

Let it shine

June 17, 2003 Mankato MN

Glorious Clouds

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June 17, 2003 Mankato MN

The sky on a spring day, Mankato MN – May 11, 2003

Shot with a basic Olympus digital camera

Sunset in Mankato, Minnesota

Shot April 26, 2003 with a basic point and shoot (Olympus) digital camera

Simply, Minnesota Summer Sky

Taken in Mankato, Minnesota,  Green, Blue and White

Shot September 2002 with a basic point and shoot (Olympus) digital camera