The sun sets over ponds on the road to St. John’s University, ending another hot and humid Summer day in Central Minnesota.
Category: Photography
Photographic postings.
Abbey Church, St. John’s University, Minnesota, 2010
An arch holding up the bell tower (if tower is the right word) hangs over a set of concrete seats, next to the entrance to the abbey church, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
The modernist foyer and baptismal font in the Abbey Church. The statue is St. John the Baptist by Doris Caesar.
An overview of the interior, showing the altar, and behind it the futuristic throne of the abbot. The pews, angular and concrete, are extremely uncomfortable, apparently a purposeful design decision, coupled with the brutalism of the architecture and the bareness of the concrete, underscoring the ascetic quality of monastic life.
A stairway leading to the balcony shows the beautiful quality of the windows, contrasting against the bareness of the concrete, at the Abbey Church of St. John’s.
The front windows, as seen from the balcony of the Abbey Church of St. John’s. The backlit tops of the pews may be faintly seen in the dark lower section of the image.
Marsh Reflection Monotone, Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, September 2010
A dead tree is reflected in the waters of a beaver marsh, alongside the abandoned bed of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway in Algonquin Provincial Park, Northern Ontario.
Black Bear #2, Northern Ontario, August 2010
The same bear, before it approached my car, on a remote highway leading to Sultan, Ontario.
Black Bear, Northern Ontario, August 2010
A bear approaches the far side of my car, on a remote highway leading to Sultan, Ontario. I snapped this through the passenger window with my tele zoom, shortly before taking off. . . .
Blowing Bubbles, Patel-Vieth Wedding, July 2010
A young guest takes advantage of the complimentary bubble solution at the wedding.
Decorated Hands, Patel-Vieth Wedding, July 2010
The bride’s hands, decorated in the style of the Indian component of the ‘Indo-Polska’ wedding.
Preparations, Patel-Vieth Wedding, July 2010
I wanted to get a bit of a glamor shoot making-of in this shot, so I shot directly into the flash and umbrella.
Strobist info: shot directly at a SB-28 with a shoot-through umbrella on a light-stand, in-camera.
I wanted to get a bit of a glamor shoot making-of in this shot, so I shot directly into the flash and umbrella.
Strobist info: shot directly into SB-28 in a shoot-through umbrella on light-stand, in-camera.
Flowers, Patel-Vieth Wedding, July 2010
I have not been posting for a lot of reasons: I have been traveling, I have had a lot to do, and I have been editing tons of photos from Sheila and Peter’s wedding, which I shot in July. I didn’t want to share any of the images before they had seen all of the edits, and I have been long in doing them due to my research trip the HMML in Minnesota. Now that I am working on the final edits, I thought I would push a few of them over here to flickr and my weblog, to share some of what I have been doing. It was my first wedding, and any comments or feedback are welcome.
Peter and Sheila made their own bouquets, corsages, and the like, which I appropriated before they were distributed, in order to capture them in their pristine state.
I had awful problems with the color temperature of the shadows in this flash-lit, indoor photo being too blue–after much color correction, I still had to desaturate blues and cyans in order to make it look really white–has anyone else dealt with this specific problem, and has a workaround?
I have not been posting for a lot of reasons: I have been traveling, I have had a lot to do, and I have been editing tons of photos from Sheila and Peter’s wedding, which I shot in July. I didn’t want to share any of the images before they had seen all of the edits, and I have been long in doing them due to my research trip the HMML in Minnesota. Now that I am working on the final edits, I thought I would push a few of them over here to flickr and my weblog, to share some of what I have been doing. It was my first wedding, and any comments or feedback are welcome.
Peter and Sheila made their own bouquets, corsages, and the like, which I appropriated before they were distributed, in order to capture them in their pristine state.
I had awful problems with the color temperature of the shadows in this flash-lit, indoor photo being too blue–after much color correction, I still had to desaturate blues and cyans in order to make it look really white–has anyone else dealt with this specific problem, and has a workaround?
Priest’s Cat, Mek’ele, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2009
A priest’s cat sits on some news-sheets, patiently waiting for her master’s interview to be completed.