Photo of the Day - 5/31/2014
May 31, 2014 - Welcome to Nic at Night (that's Nic as in Nicollet Mall, for those of you who don't know downtown Minneapolis).
There's...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/30/2014
May 30, 2014 - As I've been mentioning frequently (too frequently?), there is a lot to see at the Arboretum these days. Today's photo i...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/29/2014
May 29, 2014 - Here's an image of chaos. I shot this in a small park in Paris. Those are filled with pigeons. Pigeons everywhere. Take...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/28/2014
May 28, 2014 - I was chatting with a friend the other day about photos. She mentioned she had some nice cloud shots. So, here's one of...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/27/2014
May 27, 2014 - There's always something interesting to see at the Arboretum. That's part of what makes it a fun place to visit and shoo...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/26/2014
May 26, 2014 - I don't have any appropriate Memorial Day themed photos, so here's something contemplative. Sunrise over the Atlantic Oc...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/25/2015
May 25, 2014 - I like water. Not just for drinking but as a medium for photography. Not just reflections in water (although those are f...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/24/2014
May 24, 2014 - I think I can now safely say that it is Spring. It took longer and more effort than it should to get there, but there we...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/23/2014
May 23, 2014 - Butterflies are fun. They're colorful, have wings, interesting patterns, don't bite. Butterfly exhibits are even more fu...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/22/2014
May 22, 2014 - If I have anything that can be called a "go to" place to make photos, it is probably Lone Lake. I've been shooting there...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/21/2014
May 21, 2014 - Many years ago, my parents took a trip to Alaska. They came back with lots of wonderful images and ended up making some...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/20/2014
May 20, 2014 - The other day a friend jokingly asked whether taking a photo of a mallard counts as wildlife photography. After all, the...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/19/2014
May 19, 2014 - If you hadn't realized, I like photographing birds. They are colorful. They are difficult. They are distinctive.
So far...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/18/2014
May 18, 2014 - I was out at the Arboretum last weekend with some friends when one of them pointed and said "Look, a garter snake." Sure...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the day - 5/17/2014
May 17, 2014 - When travelling, especially outside the United States, I find there are generally three types of images to be made.
The...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/16/2014
May 16, 2014 - I thought I'd try a panorama today.
This photo was taken while walking around Lake of the Isles. Like yesterday's photo...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/15/2014
May 15, 2014 - This is one of the first photos I ever took...with a digital camera. And, for a long time, it was a mystery.
As I menti...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/14/2014
May 14, 2014 - Several years ago, I was walking around Lone Lake when I saw something unexpected on the path. A snapping turtle. A fair...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/13/2014
May 13, 2014 - When I started doing these a couple weeks ago, I wanted to avoid highlighting similar images on successive days. You kno...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/12/2014
May 12, 2014 - This has proven to be a great year for making bird photos (at least for me). There were the ones I've commented about fr...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/11/2014
May 11, 2014 - Every year the Arboretum plants thousands (or probably hundreds of thousands) of tulips, daffodils and other bulbs that...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/10/2014
May 10, 2014 - I wasn't really sure what kind of image to feature today. Should I do another recent bird shot? Maybe tomorrow or Monday...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/9/2014
May 09, 2014 - For some reason, I tend to like weird or abstract photos. I'm not overly fond of abstract paintings or sculptures, but t...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/8/2014
May 08, 2014 - This is another new one, taken last Saturday. It shows a horned grebe amongst some American coots.
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/7/2014
May 07, 2014 - I'm in the mood for sharing a landscape today.
Back in 2006 I took a photography class at the Minnesota Landscape Arbor...
Read the Full Post »
Photo of the Day - 5/6/2014
May 06, 2014 - I decided to walk around Lake Calhoun again yesterday to see if I could get more shots of assorted birds. Besides, it wa...
Read the Full Post »