St. Paul, MN Photos

The Science Museum of Minnesota

The maple trees line Chestnut street . . funny they didn’t name it Maple street. Last week they were so pretty, then on Saturday the wind blew. Sometimes Fall ends in a big snow storm but this year the wind blew most of it away in a single day.

Rainy Day

Happy Haloween!

Oakland Cemetery

Just in time for Halloween, a day early even. Located in the hear of St. Paul, Oakland cemetery is a great place to shoot fall color and tomb stones.  People are dieing to get in there.

Mears Park in the Fall

I belong to a local photography meet up group and we started having these online challenges, which is nice because I miss most of the events. They are usually held in the evening or on weekends and are far away.  I pretty much work seven days a week but my schedule is particularly full during the times the group meets.  The online challenges are very challenging and I seldom get any photos that I like.

This months challenge is choosing an F-Stop shutter speed, ISO and lens and taking a photo with those same setting every day.  I chose f8, 1/125 and 200 for the ISO and the kit lens.  So far I have been able to take photos indoors and out because they do let us use a flash, and one day I used a ND filter because  it is easier to apologize later than it is to ask for permission up front.  This photo could be better but it by far the best I have gotten during an online challenge.

It helps that Mears Park in downtown St. Paul is gorgeous any time of year, and that the light just happened to be perfect for the settings that I choose.  I take all my shots in manual but I don’t follow the rules when it comes to the settings, mostly because I get excited about what I see and just start shooting.

Wagon

I didn’t notice the little blue bird house in this photo until I processed it. I added a couple layers of texture to make it a little more interesting and to compensate a little for the back lighting. It has not been easy to find the time to take photos or even to post a photo that I already have. I don’t want to stop posting so I try to find something each day.

Autumn Chapel

Fall leaves and brick is almost as much fun to shoot at rust and bricks, either way for me it is about the brick. The chapel is at Oakland Cemetery in St. Paul.