"Alyssa" Photo of the Day: December 30, 2015

Moments of love and beauty make life worth living. Unfortunately, moments pass. However, if you are lucky you may find someone who breaks this rule. With them, these wonderful moments always seem to exist.

"Minnesota Winter" Photo of the Day: December 1, 2015

"Minnesota Winter."

"Ionic Colonnade" Photo of the Day: August 13, 2015

I shot this one winter evening at Northrup Auditorium on the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus. I remember it being unbelievably cold and my fingers were numb for quite a while afterwards!

Photo of the Day: August 5, 2015 "Tower in Winter"

While wandering around Loring Park near downtown Minneapolis this past March, I photographed this apartment tower amongst some beautiful cloud cover.  The way that the clouds appeared to be painted in the sky is one of my favorite things about this photo. 

Benches

As night fell on Loring Park - the largest park located near downtown Minneapolis - I was doing my best to capture the sights in the frigid weather. The benches in the park made for interesting subjects, albeit nonliving ones. It is incredible how important the snow and ice are in these compositions; adding to the overall feel of the scenes. For those of you from warmer climates, I will let you know that while out shooting the windchill was below 0 degrees fahrenheit!

A horse on a snowy day...

It has been snowing alot (after all this is Minnesota) so I have been able to get some pretty decent shots of this "winter wonderland". A couple of days ago however I got some photos of one of our horses "Scotch", though this isn't exactly "wildlife photography" I liked the results so I thought that I'd share them with you.

Winter, Winter, and more Winter...isn't Spring here yet?

I'll be honest. Winter isn't my favorite season. Here in Minnesota, it gets WAY too cold for my liking. However with the cold can come some great photo opportunities (snow, seasonal birds, etc.) so I try to get out and photograph as much as possible in this giant outdoor freezer. Here are a few photos that I took a couple weeks ago.

Some Pine Tree branches covered in snow and ice.

A male Northern Cardinal. (Note that this isn't a seasonal bird species here, we have them year-round)

Some snow close-up.

Happy 2010 everyone!

Wow, I can't believe that this decade is already over! It seems that it wasn't very long ago that it turned 2000....anyway, I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas and great New Years! Here are a couple winter pics that I scored in my backyard. This freezing weather is crazy!

"Weathered"

Like in my previous post, this photo was taken in Joshua Tree National Park in southern California. I love this photo for the weathered branch in the forground and the snowy mountains in the background, thus I like to call it "Weathered".

Despite Joshua Tree being in a desert, when I was taking this photo it was a mere 30 degrees f...thanks to the altitude and a very cold day. It is somewhat funny, the first time that I was ever in a "true" desert it snowed...enjoy!

Fun fact about mountains: In the U.S. in order for a land mass to qualify as a mountain, it must stand 1,000 feet tall or more. However if it is only 999 feet, sorry it is just a hill. (500 feet or below and its a knoll.)

Some photos taken on a very frosty morning

Here are some photos that I captured a while back on an extremely frosty morning. Thanks for looking!

Some Winter Photography

I really don't like this time of year. Its mainly the cold that I have problems with, but the icy roads and annoying snow storms aren't my favorite either. However with snow and ice on the ground, you can get some unique photo opportunities. Here are some photos that I have captured this past month (Jan 2009) outdoors in the cold. =)The tip of a piece of grass with the sun in the background.A Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) at the Minnesota Zoo.

One of my ever useful sisters agreed to "pose" for this winter shot. Some Pine Tree branches. A close-up of a Pine Tree branch with the sun in the background. One of our horses, "Patches", rolling in the snow.