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Two years ago the city made me cut down a monster elm tree in my backyard. Now I have a really cool mushroom garden. The shot below was taken with my Canon G6, since it has a nice super-micro feature and a rotatable LCD making it easier to shoot lower to the ground.

I just upgraded to SwishVideoHQ this weekend. So I though I would give it test run using video I took of my dad fly fishing on Father’s day. The video below was taken with with a Canon T1i and kit lens (18-55.) I tweeked the brightness slightly in Sony Vegas, then scaled it down to [...]

Good old Elmers never should have put “Flammable” on the label. This is what happens when you leave a photographer alone with a some dice, rubber cement, hot glue gun, a sheet of glass and some black construction paper? Oh toss in a fire extinguisher just to be on the safe side. Safety first kiddies.

I’m working on an idea for a short film. So on the way home I shot some test footage in the parking garage. This brief shot was captured using my Nikon S210. It was then color graded and edited in Sony Vegas 8.0c, where I added the emergency red and blue flash and sound effects. [...]

This Saturday, I made my way to Wisconsin, for the 2009 Hudson Hot Air Affair. While high winds prevented the Day’s balloon flight. The Moon Glow or “Field of Fire” in this case took place as schedule at sun down. The Hudson Elementary school yard was filled with 35 or so Balloonist all firing their [...]

I ran across a nice fireworks shot while doing my September archiving. It was taken during the 2008 Aquatennial fireworks, in Minneapolis along the Mississippi river front. Each year I try to find a new location. This year I fought the crowds on the Stone Arch Bridge, I arrived around three hours early to beat [...]

Just fooling around with Google Video and some video off my old Sony HI-8 camera. Shot on New Years Day. This is the remains of my old upright piano after we tossed it on the bonfire. It took forever to light, and about half a gallon of waste oil. But once it caught fire, oh [...]

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. No [...]

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 [...]

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 trolley line just as the sun peeked through a crack.