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The Taste of Minnesota started this weekend, so I headed to Saint Paul this Saturday to photograph the fireworks. I arrived early and wondered for hours, but the crowds were just to… well crowed. The only spot I found to set-up had an uninteresting background. So I headed a mile or so down river. It was no surprise that the fireworks disappointing. But it was hardly worth the five dollars for parking and four bucks for a bottle of pop. Oh well, Once the brief display was over I turned my camera on the Saint Paul skyline and was treated to this shot.

It’s been a long time between posts, I haven’t event had time to get out and take some photos. I grabbed my camera on the way to St. Paul this morning, and I ran across this city water park. Risking frostbite, I stops to get a few shots not realizing that the fence was 12 feet high locked, and with too many people around to climb over. Being the resourceful type, I considered breaking and entering until I remembered the Timer!

Holding the camera high above my head on mono pod, I tried to hold the camera strait and steady as I shivered in the below zero temp. Luckily the Canon G6 has a swivel LCD panel so It was a little easier to compose the shot. This was the best of the lot, and I still had to crop it, edit, and rotate it slightly.

This Sunday started out rainy and a little chilly. It was around 1pm when I noticed some breaking in the cloud cover. I ran down to Lake Harriet hoping to catch the last of the fall colors. I captured this shot of the Como-Harriet trollie line just as the sun peeked through a crack.

Another great weekend, I took a long drive out in the country on Sunday and came across this scenic hilltop and hour or so before Sunset.

Minneapolis doesn’t get much better then this, Sunday after noon was perfect for a long walk around Lake Calhoun and taking pictures.

The backend scripts for www.jstuartj.com and www.texturehunter.com are loaded and appear to be working correctly. I really like WordPress even thou most of the existing templates suck. I can wait to begin building my own templates. I’ve been reading through the docs, but it slow going and I don’t have much free time.

For www.texturehunter.com I’ve decided to go with Joomla along with Gallery version 2. I’ve known for a while that I wanted to use Galley. I was looking at using Typo3 as my CMS as it seams more flexible design wise. But since Joomla is included as one of Dreamhost’s one-click installs, I figure I might as well give it a try. We’ll see how the template process goes. So far I’m not impressed with the documentation, there is a lot of it, but I would perfer it in book form. I really hate reading online docs.

Nifty. Google allows you to embed your Google Video within your Website or Blog. Here is a quick test to see how it functions.

Copy and paste the code below to embed the video:

<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6960641543991305866"> </embed>