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Posted on July 30, 2022March 9, 2025

A Hot Day Downtown

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Posted on June 19, 2022September 10, 2022

Cycling Nowhere

I’ve been cycling all my life. It takes on different meanings as you get older – or get locked down by a virus. When that happened, I started roaming the fringes, the odd corners, of Minneapolis.

19th Century officer’s houses – Fort Snelling, MN
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Posted on May 7, 2021May 25, 2026

Nicollet Island Railroad Bridge

Nicollet Island, in the Mississippi in the middle of Minneapolis, has a lot of history and there’s been a railroad bridge across it since 1867. It’s changed over those 150 years: steel girders in 1893, rebuilt in 1926, modified a couple of times since, but still in use.

From the south bank of the river – the downtown side.
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Posted on February 5, 2021March 29, 2025

The Fence

The fence is part of the picture.

Photograph of the Ford Parkway bridge in Minneapolis.
Ford Parkway Bridge over the Mississippi, connecting Minneapolis and St. Paul
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Posted on June 27, 2020March 10, 2025

Brand New Minneapolis

The year is 2020. Minneapolis – my city – is going through some tough times

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  • Minneapolis and the Mississippi
  • Generative AI: Let’s Pull Back The Curtain
  • Out on the 3rd Avenue Bridge
  • AI and Christopher Columbus
  • Elgin Standard Time
  • Water Meets Ice
  • Bricks
  • Woodpecker Portrait Session
  • The Northern Flicker
  • The Downy Woodpecker
  • Crazy Ice On The Creek
  • Photography: What’s Left?
  • A Highway At Night
  • A Darker Minneapolis
  • Hover Flies: Pollinators In Disguise
  • On The Franklin Avenue Bridge
  • Stay Cool In The Skyways
  • In The Wind
  • The Rusty Patched bumble bee
  • A Hot Day Downtown
  • The Sleeping Queens
  • Dragonflies and Damselflies
  • Cycling Nowhere
  • How Big Is That Fish Eye, Really?
  • White Balance For Dummies – By A Dummy
  • Red-wings
  • Ride The Rails
  • The Great Blue Herons Are Back
  • The Cyclist
  • Street and Sky
  • Young Owls
  • Cardinals
  • The Perfect POD
  • Capture One and Lightroom: why I don’t like catalogs
  • SmugMug SEO and Google – An Epitaph
  • Birds In Winter
  • The Pergear 10mm Pancake Fisheye Lens
  • SmugMug: Where Photography Goes To Hide
  • Tuning Dials and Channel Knobs: Retro Tech
  • Why Does Duotoning Work?
  • ICC printer profiles: how does that work, exactly?
  • As Good As A Phone…?
  • Make Even More
  • An old Ford rusts peacefully in a farmer's field.A Ford’s Journey
  • Hummingbird Photography for Dummies
  • Smugmug and Google: The Taste of Failure
  • Protect your photos with an AIR GAP
  • Google Indexing: My Balloon Loses Air
  • Windows 10 Ransomware protection
  • Nicollet Island Railroad Bridge

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