Photography

What do you see?

What do you see?

Nature-made water colors …

rippled reflections

This little bird stayed with me, and he moved to a branch only 15 ft away so my zoom camera was happy and I got nice and crispy photos

I’m watching you, you see me up here?

Nuthatch in all her/his glory

Nov. 2, 2014

Minnesota valley national wildlife refuge

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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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Ready for a moment of enhanced awareness?  Maybe feel some magic?  Hear some sounds? See leaves falling off trees in the wind.. Filmed at the MN river valley not far from the river itself.  Look around, listen, watch … wind, trail, blowing leaves … This video might offer you a mystical minute.

Minnesota River Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Oct 16 2014

You can watch this on youtube and as full screen for a clearer view here:
http://www.youtube.com/v/HzdOmEo0ST0

You can watch this on youtube and as full screen for a clearer view here:
http://www.youtube.com/v/pS2K_OA22VI

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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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The red tree, at about noon time, where I parked and ate lunch in  the red sun light passing through the leaves

Oct 10, 2014, Eden Prairie, MN

this is an Acer x freemanii hybrid of red maple (A. rubrum) and silver maple (A. saccharinum)

Nice fall colors on the side of this hill, in the shade you will see frost on the grass – Oct 10, 2014, Hopkins, MN

Photo above shows a sumac plant

October 8, 2014 – Chan, MN

In Chanhassen, MN – October 8, 2014

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

Mystery Art

Fairies?

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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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I enjoy the shape, geometry, symmetry, snow-like looks

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A Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) eating a frog

After the meal
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Oct 24, 2010
Taken at Big Willow Park, Minnetonka, MN Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera

Black bird against the blue sky with a little surprise

1. Fluffing myself

2. Yeah, that feels good!

3. My true color, my blue goes well with black

4. Here we go..

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Common Grackle from the Blackbird Family :: with an interesting shade of blue

Next to Starring Lake, Eden Prairie MN :: March 24, 2010

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Mankato’s twin towers (MSU dorms)

June 2003

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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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September 2003

Southern MN

“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

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

Shot with a basic Olympus digital camera

On the Minnesota State University, Mankato campus

Blue, Pink, Purple and Green

Shot with a basic 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