Minneapolis St-Paul

Spent the last two weeks in MSP for business. The first week saw some sights that made me want to bring my camera. In particular the Fort Snelling National Cemetery. There are over 172,000 internments there and they are still accept funerals. It was quite the sight. Hopefully my photos do it justice.








After this, I went into downtown St Paul, which is the Capital of Minnesota and took a couple of shots of some interesting buildings.

This is the Capitol Building



These are some shots of Cathedral of St Paul.

Backyard Lily

We have some Cala Lilies in our backyard. This morning there some sort of drop on one of the lilies that I thought looked pretty cool. Had my Tamron 90mm macro lens on for these shots. Unfortunately there was a bit of a breeze so these may not be quite as sharp as I would have liked as I was using a fairly slow shutter speed and the flowers were in the shade.

Stunt Rider

Here's a couple of shots I took about 2 days after I got my camera. Still haven't figured it all out, and really just tried to take some pics to get used to the feel etc of camera. Haven't figured out autofocus points and setting yet or some of hte other modes, but got to play a bit.

These are photos of Zach Schockey, who is the son of one of our riding buddies. He is a professional but was just at our bike skills class for a bit of a demo.

Des Moines

Dez Moiness. That's how the blonde stewardess pronounced it. Later on the flight, someone must have corrected her, De Moine.. she pronounced it correctely. Certainly, she admitted this was not her regular flight as she butchered other announcements, but geez....

I'm downtown, and actually I really like this city so far. Its a mid-sized city, very clean and relatively friendly as near as I can tell. I didn't bring my camera. Hopefully I'll be back here some day as there are some great photo ops that I don't normally have.

The city reminds me a bit of Oklahoma City, nor sure if that's a good thing or not. I have only been to OKC for fun, this trip to Des Moines is for business so its difficult to compare properly. One thing is apparent, they do love their Harley's here though. A surprising number of bikes in the downtown core. And lots, lots, of bicycles. oops, hockey break, RedWings just came back and tied game 1-1 against Sharks. Good thing, they have been kicking butt all night.

Speaking of my camera, I got a new toy recently, for my birthday. An EOS 7D. I'm excited. I have a couple of shots already I need to post when I get home. Inspired and need to stay that way,