St. Paul, MN Photos

Blue Columbine

I have a friend who sometimes has trouble with colors especially blues and lavenders so I got in the habit of labeling some of my flower photos by color so that there wouldn’t be any confusing.  This beautiful flower is in a sea of flowers next to the pond that runs through Mears park in downtown St. Paul.  It is one of the places I like to go to on the weekend when I really don’t get a weekend. It is an oasis.  It is a strange place though.  If you walk through it with a camera in your hand you will be asked if you are going to take pictures.  I have no idea why people ask but they almost always do.  Maybe they think there is some other reason why a person would carry a camera around.

Fourpaugh's Restaurant

I have a love hate relationship with my wide angle lens. There is distortion in this photo but it was for fun.  I noticed that someone took pictures of the inside of this restaurant with a wide angle lens.  I think they would look better if the photographer would have kept the lens level or straightened the photos before publishing them.   Sometimes distortion can make a photo look artistic at other times it can look the the person taking the shot is having trouble.

Door

I have a collection of pictures of doors.  They represent opportunity and of course there is the old dilemma of trying to decide between door number one and door number two.

General store

I don’t think it is possible for a store to look more like a general store than this one does.  It looks pretty general in the summer too.

Vacant and Blue

You can probably tell that I took this one while it was snowing. It wasn’t intended for the photo blog it is an image I need for something I am writing.  I used my 50mm lens again.   I decided to leave it on my camera all week and bring my camera with me everywhere I go because I can.   The house is unheated and has been vacant for at least 3 years now and it is on a block with several vacant houses, most of them were rental properties.  There is a kind of mortgage fraud alley a few blocks from where I live a small pocket hit very hard by foreclosures.   About the house . . all I want to say is they don’t build them like that any more and I hate to see it sitting empty.