{"id":3598,"date":"2022-06-19T19:06:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:04:46","slug":"cycling-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/19\/cycling-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n

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19th Century officer’s houses – Fort Snelling, MN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Doing photos along the way adds a sense of purpose. Composition, perspective and the feeling of space and distance, mean lenses <\/em>– so carry a camera, not just a phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes I want the sense of just being <\/em>somewhere that has no real significance other than a feeling of “place” and the passage of time:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Below Fort Snelling, next to the Mississippi River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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An old warehouse wall downtown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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I’m out in the winter, too. Yes, Minneapolis is cold and a bit grim as February drags on. But there are “places”.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Old Cedar Avenue bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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I like photos that say out on the road<\/em>, going somewhere, with line and perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n

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By the river, just north of downtown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

And… sky. I’m big on skies. Open space, the feeling you’re not tethered to everything and everyone. Look UP while you’re out there.<\/p>\n\n\n

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3rd Avenue bridge, just south of downtown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Wide angle lenses give a sense of being out in the open, in a place<\/em> that extends around, above and below. Light, shadow, and perspective add to that effect.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lately I’ve been thinking of these photos as “postcards”.<\/p>\n\n\n

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First Avenue bridge over the Mississippi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cycling around Minneapolis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[692,691,343,690,5,277],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bicycle","tag-bike","tag-black-and-white","tag-cycling","tag-minneapolis","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}