North Metro Photo

Enjoy a Club Soda on me.  Actually, this is Dan’s club soda not mine.  Dan, Mitch and I have been getting together for breakfast on a somewhat semi-regular basis at The Lowry Uptown.   Always fun to get together to talk photography, food and beverages along with IT stuff.   This winter has left us a bit uninspired to go photo-shooting, so the next best thing is to at least talk about photography.   I noticed Dan’s blog is not up to date.  Perhaps this may be the kick in his backside to get him back on track. 

I am not exactly sure why I snapped this photo. Maybe it was the winter blues lack of snow and a beige landscape that inspired me to bring my camera and shoot something.  That something was the glass of club soda.  I liked the bubbles in the glass and at f2.8, the brilliant blue bokeh mimicked the club soda bubbles.

I have been experiencing more problems from my hosting site.  This site was down late last week and quite slow over the weekend.  Trying to resolve this issue has taken too much of my time that I have not been able to get around the blogisphere.  I hope to have  a remedy in place soon.  More on that later.

The answer to Monday’s post,  Glint of Light  is a fern frond inside the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul.

With high concentration, this little fellow is about to pounce onto the branch where another monkey sits. Monkeylike antics abound in the Como Park Zoo primate house.

A glint of light illuminates a sliver of this object.   Can you guess what this is with such a shallow depth of field at f2.8?

What a joy it was to wander about the humid warmth inside the conservatory. The exotic flora shaded us from the winter’s sun under a canopy of glass. Too much shade in my opinion that muddled the intricate beauty of the tall plants. I used my external flash aimed upward at a 70 degree angle to cast my own light and shadows illuminating the subject.

Remembering when the days were long and warm and the deer came out to play.

TV is fine, but the nightly show outdoors is much more inspiring. And a good way to hone our long exposure skills.

This image is 30 seconds long at f4 ISO 200.  The 30 second exposure is a bit too long.  Though the stars are no longer circular as they move across the sky, the lengthened light makes them more bright.

What in the world?

Ah, the tropical warmth inside the Sunken Garden was quite pleasant apart from wearing outdoor winter attire.