1/22/17 - 1/28/17 - Public Art
Paul-
Due to a recent injury (see below), I am keeping this typing short. (You’re welcome.)
This is a bike sculpture--one of many different ones spread throughout Lincoln on a bicycle theme—that sits in front of our largest public library. ‘No question this was what I wanted to shoot this week.
Decent Public Exposure: Nikon D5200; 18-55mm lens set at 24mm; ISO 640; 1/2500 sec. at f/7.1; +1/3 EV; aperture priority; matrix metering; WB set to cloudy. Monopod due to current one-handed photography phase I am in.
Due to a recent injury (see below), I am keeping this typing short. (You’re welcome.)
This is a bike sculpture--one of many different ones spread throughout Lincoln on a bicycle theme—that sits in front of our largest public library. ‘No question this was what I wanted to shoot this week.
Decent Public Exposure: Nikon D5200; 18-55mm lens set at 24mm; ISO 640; 1/2500 sec. at f/7.1; +1/3 EV; aperture priority; matrix metering; WB set to cloudy. Monopod due to current one-handed photography phase I am in.
Jerry-
I chose to photograph a sculpture at Webber Park in the Camden neighborhood in North Minneapolis called "The Lumberman". It was dedicated to the Camden area's involvement in the lumber industry. Years ago I had a small house on 49th Avenue, just West a block or two off Humboldt Avenue North. We spent a lot of time at the park there with the kids.
Camera was the Sony A6300 with 55-200 zoomed to about 60mm, 1/100 @ f16, ISO 400. If I had been on the ball, I would have gone to downtown Minneapolis and taken a photo of the Mary Tyler Moore sculpture. She has been in the news with her recent death. While I rarely watched her on tv, I do remember some of the characters like Ted Baxter and Georgette from the Mary Tyler Moore Show and her role on the Dick Van Dyke Show.
I chose to photograph a sculpture at Webber Park in the Camden neighborhood in North Minneapolis called "The Lumberman". It was dedicated to the Camden area's involvement in the lumber industry. Years ago I had a small house on 49th Avenue, just West a block or two off Humboldt Avenue North. We spent a lot of time at the park there with the kids.
Camera was the Sony A6300 with 55-200 zoomed to about 60mm, 1/100 @ f16, ISO 400. If I had been on the ball, I would have gone to downtown Minneapolis and taken a photo of the Mary Tyler Moore sculpture. She has been in the news with her recent death. While I rarely watched her on tv, I do remember some of the characters like Ted Baxter and Georgette from the Mary Tyler Moore Show and her role on the Dick Van Dyke Show.
Byron-
Palm Springs has it's share of public art. It was just a matter of choosing an example that would make an interesting photo. I chose a kinetic sculpture that consists of tubes that fill with water and then dump the water. The tubes fill with water through the base. That part is invisible. It just appears as if water magically forms inside the tubes. They fill at different rates. Sometimes one tube will empty other times all 4 tubes empty at once. The sky was solid blue. That normally not unusual for Palm Springs except for this January. I took this picture the day after the rain moved out of the area.
ISO 400, 28mm, f6.3, 1/600sec
Palm Springs has it's share of public art. It was just a matter of choosing an example that would make an interesting photo. I chose a kinetic sculpture that consists of tubes that fill with water and then dump the water. The tubes fill with water through the base. That part is invisible. It just appears as if water magically forms inside the tubes. They fill at different rates. Sometimes one tube will empty other times all 4 tubes empty at once. The sky was solid blue. That normally not unusual for Palm Springs except for this January. I took this picture the day after the rain moved out of the area.
ISO 400, 28mm, f6.3, 1/600sec
Kevin-
This was a fun week, but also a challenging week. I had flown back to the Twin Cities on Thursday before the new theme was announced. On Sunday I read the theme, Public Art and thought “Great, I will make a drive to the university of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum where there is a nice sculpture garden. The snow covered field surrounding the sculptures should make for very graphic backgrounds. I am bound to get something interesting!” I made the drive and entered the Arboretum, only to find that the road leading to that sculpture garden had been closed except for foot traffic (due to winter I suppose). Since I knew that I could not make that hike on foot I turned around and left immediately. Dang!
"No problem" I thought. "I will simply go and scout out the sculpture garden at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. There is supposed to be heavy fog late tonight, which will make for a really interesting background.” I made the drive intending to scout out the scenes and the parking in advance of the fog, only to find that sculpture garden completely fenced off and inaccessible. A re-design is taking place and the sculpture garden won’t reopen until June of 2017. Crud!
Hmm, zero for two. And I knew that I had to begin a 2250 mile drive the next day, transporting my BMW M3 from Minnetonka, MN to Palm Springs, CA with my brother Brad. And we would arrive just hours before the Public Art image was due. There was only one other opportunity I knew about, Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX. I crossed my fingers. When we arrived in Amarillo we headed directly to Cadillac Ranch, even before checking in to the hotel as the sun was nearly set. But the light wasn’t the problem. The winds were. They were howling, 25-35 mph according to the weather report but with gusts to 55 mph. And it felt that way as I struggled to remain upright while walking to the Cadillacs.
Cadillac Ranch was created in 1974 in a wheat field. Each of the ten Caddies are half-buried, nose first, at the same angle as the walls of the Great Pyramid. In 1997 the cars were relocated about two miles away in a different field. Over the years they have been repainted numerous times for commercials, videos, etc. But this is a very public art project and each time graffiti artists cover the cars again, usually within 24 hours.
Numerous songs and videos have been dedicated to Cadillac Ranch including the Bruce Springsteen song "Cadillac Ranch" released in 1990.
It would have been nice to have some interesting clouds in the sky, but with those winds the skies were clear. In fact I have driven past Cadillac Ranch more than a half dozen times over the years and have never seen interesting skies behind the Caddies.
Nikon D4s, handheld, 24-120mm f/4 VR Nikkor lens set to 24mm, ISO 200, 1/125th of a second at f/16. VR on.
This was a fun week, but also a challenging week. I had flown back to the Twin Cities on Thursday before the new theme was announced. On Sunday I read the theme, Public Art and thought “Great, I will make a drive to the university of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum where there is a nice sculpture garden. The snow covered field surrounding the sculptures should make for very graphic backgrounds. I am bound to get something interesting!” I made the drive and entered the Arboretum, only to find that the road leading to that sculpture garden had been closed except for foot traffic (due to winter I suppose). Since I knew that I could not make that hike on foot I turned around and left immediately. Dang!
"No problem" I thought. "I will simply go and scout out the sculpture garden at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. There is supposed to be heavy fog late tonight, which will make for a really interesting background.” I made the drive intending to scout out the scenes and the parking in advance of the fog, only to find that sculpture garden completely fenced off and inaccessible. A re-design is taking place and the sculpture garden won’t reopen until June of 2017. Crud!
Hmm, zero for two. And I knew that I had to begin a 2250 mile drive the next day, transporting my BMW M3 from Minnetonka, MN to Palm Springs, CA with my brother Brad. And we would arrive just hours before the Public Art image was due. There was only one other opportunity I knew about, Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX. I crossed my fingers. When we arrived in Amarillo we headed directly to Cadillac Ranch, even before checking in to the hotel as the sun was nearly set. But the light wasn’t the problem. The winds were. They were howling, 25-35 mph according to the weather report but with gusts to 55 mph. And it felt that way as I struggled to remain upright while walking to the Cadillacs.
Cadillac Ranch was created in 1974 in a wheat field. Each of the ten Caddies are half-buried, nose first, at the same angle as the walls of the Great Pyramid. In 1997 the cars were relocated about two miles away in a different field. Over the years they have been repainted numerous times for commercials, videos, etc. But this is a very public art project and each time graffiti artists cover the cars again, usually within 24 hours.
Numerous songs and videos have been dedicated to Cadillac Ranch including the Bruce Springsteen song "Cadillac Ranch" released in 1990.
It would have been nice to have some interesting clouds in the sky, but with those winds the skies were clear. In fact I have driven past Cadillac Ranch more than a half dozen times over the years and have never seen interesting skies behind the Caddies.
Nikon D4s, handheld, 24-120mm f/4 VR Nikkor lens set to 24mm, ISO 200, 1/125th of a second at f/16. VR on.