September 7th, 2008 Central Park

I was taking Jack to cub scouts when I noticed the sky had cleared a bit, so I stopped at Central Park in Bloomington and literally took these shots in under 10 minutes from the time I hit the parking lot.  It was 6:50 the meeting was at 7pm, Jack was about 7 minutes late…  I only had my little SD1000 with me, these are HDR’s.

First shot facing South.  The sun was just under the horizon some of the exposures were 2 seconds.  The lighting was very ‘blahlike’.  Best viewed large.

Had I arrived about 10 minutes earlier these clouds would have been a pretty cool looking pinkish color.

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October 5th, 2008 Senate Debate

The first of 6 senate debates was held in Rochester this evening.  Questions ranged from the obvious Iraq, bailout, and economy, to attack ads, and education.

Dean Barkley(I), Sen. Norm Coleman(R), Al Franken(D)

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October 4th, 2008 Founders Day

I have been helping out gathering media (video, stills, etc) at various political events around town (debates, fundraisers, etc), today’s event was the DFL Founders Day at Northrop Auditorium at the U of M.  So I am a bit behind on fall foliage but, I have been going out before and after work & events and have tons of photos to process.

Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, and former Vice President Al Gore.

Walter Mondale (middle frame in focus), Klobuchar family to the right.

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September 28, 2008 Minnehaha Park

I have driven by Minnehaha Park but, have never actually parked their and walked around or seen the falls (I don’t believe).  I did walk to the start of Minnehaha Park from Fort Snelling but, I don’t believe I actually checked out the falls.  Not much color yet but, I will be hopefully getting out alot more over the next couple of weeks.

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September 21st, 2008 Normandale Japanese Garden

I am not in any hurry for fall colors but, I thought I would take a quick spin through the Normandale Japanese Gardens.  They had some type of photo shoot going on. I did not pay very close attention and tried to stay out of their way as much as possible.  The Prairie Grass in the last shot was in full fall color.

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