01.17.14 – Two Trumpets

Two Trumpets.  I was traveling for work the other day.  On the way home I happened to catch these two swans flying out of the corner of my eye.  I followed them for a good bit until I found a road that turned to cross their path.  The rest was simple – hurry up and wait.  It wasn’t long.

01-17-14 Two Trumpets

 

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01.16.14 – Refined

Refined.  Shot from the hip (shoulder) @ 75 mph out my passenger window.  It is a technique I have worked on for a year or so 🙂

Koch Refinery -Hwy 52

01-16-14 Refined

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01.15.14 – Let’s Get Weird

Let’s Get Weird.  Another one to add to my #On The Road collection.

01-16-14 Get Weird

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Snowy MN Morning

It is mornings like this that I really do not look forward to getting up even earlier to shovel snow and spend two hours driving into St. Paul.  Thankfully the snowplows were out in full force trying to keep up with the accumulation.  Every time it snows I think of what a hard job it must be and the long hours.  I really appreciate their work…until it lands at the end of my driveway.  That part of their job I am not so enamored with.

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Same Idea, But Different Direction #time-lapse

My honey and better half bought me a GoPro for Christmas.  I can see many videos in my future.  I’ve been playing around with it the last couple of days recording my commute to and from work.  We’ll see what happens.  The commute home (in good weather and light) was much more interesting than my snow-laden and dimly lit drive in this morning.

As you can see below I have it mounted up-side-down; facing out the passenger side of the windshield (w/rubber band stabilizers :-).  There are so many ways to mount these things.

GoPro

 

I’ve acquire a taste for time-lapse photography and have played around with it briefly from photographs taken at recurring intervals.  I think time-lapse with video will be a bit easier to do as the camera just auto-magically figures out the exposure with the video.  Speed it up with some software and you are all set.  There is more to it than that, but not much…unless I have missed something.  That happens.

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01.14.14 – Those Doors Have Eyes

Those Doors Have Eyes

01-15-14 Garage

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01.13.14 – Missing Pane

Missing Pane.

01-13-14 Missing Pane

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01.12.14 – Solar Mannequin

Here is something you don’t see everyday.  A mannequin standing out in the yard with a solar charger strapped to its waste to power a rope light that runs through the yard.  There were two mannequins total.  I need one!

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01.11.14 – A Frosty Morning

A frost morning [and entire day].  A very cloudy day shielded the sun from ridding the needle and branches from their cold and clingy companion.  I spied this scene as we were returning from a trip to Princeton, MN.  A lovely evergreen tree line leading up to a small family farm.

Frosty Tree Line

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01.10.14 – Love Line

Love Line.  The Power Lines that run between Energy Park Drive and the W. Pierce Butler Route have a unique shape to them.

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DAN TRAUN – Photographer