The Train

Down on water street just a few feet from the Mississippi River.  The bike trail ends just before the bridge and starts again just after and there is just enough space between the supports for a car and a bike.  It all looks so old and rickety it is kind of creepy riding under it when there is a train on it.

Lowertown Bike shop

Lowertown Bike shop in downtown St. Paul on E. 4th street in the JAX building.  They are they fix bikes and I should take my bike there for fixing.

Bronze bird sculpture

One of the four bronze birds in the upper landing park along the Mississippi River.  I go there almost every day about seven months out of the year and sometimes I shoot the birds.There are four bronze statues of birds, called the “Mississippi Guardian Birds” by Douglas Freeman and they are next to four fountains.

White House

Historic home located on Walnut street in St. Paul.  it is being restored.  It is a side-by-side type duplex and wil be way cool when it is all fixed up . . although I have to say it is very cool as it is.

The Liffey

The Liffey is located on West 7th street right by the Xcel center.  I have done some photography for them.  The manager wanted some pictures with people in them.  I used s slow shutter speed and no flash.  This bar is very challenging to shoot because it is dark an there are lights of many colors.  When I see interior shots taken by the pros they are always of white rooms or mostly white rooms.  I understand why.  Dark rooms are too hard to photograph.    If you go to the Liffey try the fish and chips.   If you need a picture of a dark room with or without people give be a hollar.

Xcel Center - Wild Game

I was supposed to be shooting inside on Saturday night but I can’t resist the blue hour.  These blurry people are headed to the Xcel center for a Minnesota wild hokey game.

Indoor door

I took this inside of CoCo in downtown St. Paul.  CoCo is a collaborative that I joined while back.  It is kind of like a coffee shop but kind of like an office too.  I want to bring my equipment and practice my indoor photography . . it is on my to do list.   The Minneapolis location is spectacular and it is also on my list of places I gotta shoot.  Go list?

The winter machine

Beautiful sculpture and this years first place winner.  My guess is with the warm up yesterday it doesn’t look the same today.

Happy ground hogs day.

Coffee Shop

I do not remember the name of this coffee shop.   It is near Como park in St. Paul, MN so I if you know the name leave it in the comments.  I spend a fair amount of time in coffee shops but not in this one.

Calvary cemetery - St. Paul, MN

Sometimes people get the wrong idea when I start photographing cemeteries.  I just want to say that some times a picture of a tombstone is a picture of a tombstone and this is one of those times.  Calvary cemetery like the Oakland cemetery that I wrote about last week is a wonderful place to photograph.  There is a lot of history buried there and plenty of those fine old oak trees and even a creepy bush.