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- July 31st, 2009 Disc Golf
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- January 10th, 2009 Winter Trails Day with REI at Ft. Snelling State Park
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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)
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.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Al Franken, and former Vice President Al Gore.
former Vice President Walter Mondale (middle frame in focus), Klobuchar family to the right.
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.
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.
September 13th, 2008 Gophers Vs Montana State Bobcats
I am not a big sports fan but I am a fan of beer and hotdogs. We were invited to the Gophers Montana State game in the Metrodome, free tickets and t-shirts. Had the beer and hotdogs been free the decision would have been a no-brainer. We parked in the midst of a massive tailgate party $15 parking (versus $20 for the tailgater’s) but, did have 6 people packed comfortably into a van. We were in the nosebleed section upper level row 24, endzone. Had it just been a couple of us we would have been in a lower section near the 50 but, opted to stay in the thin atmosphere. I shot a few hundred photos, I was forced to underexpose them a couple stops shooting 1/640 second exposures at 300mm f5.6 then pushing them in post processing. The big debate always comes if I should pick 20 to keep and delete the other 300 before archiving them but, past experience has shown I typically back them all up. Anyhow while I have plenty of shots of kicks, passes, crossing endzone’s, tackle’s, my favorite was a few minutes left in the second quarter when Demetrius Crawford (for the Bobcats) caught the previous kickoff (after the Gophers scored a TD) on the endzone, and ran it 100 yards to the other endzone (captions below). Then during halftime the band did some cool looking military insignia type shapes (no clue how they do that, it’s not like building crop circles in the dark but, still), then tossed in a random photo or two of someone about to get hit at high speed or someone being crunched. Two bad looking injuries occurred where the player lies motionless, and later is helped to hop off the field, personally If I have an injury that I can’t put weight on I’ll ask for the stretcher service every time.
