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Orionid Meteor Shower

By admin | Published October 22, 2011

This morning was the peak of the annual Orionid meteor shower. I was outside at 4am to see if I would be able to see any of them. With the camera setup on the tripod clicking away I set back and got to see numerous meteors before the light from the rising moons started to [...]

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2011 Twin Cities Marathon – a few photos

By admin | Published October 4, 2011

Sunday was a beautiful day for the 2011 edition of the Twin Cities Marathon. Temperature started in the 40′s and were near 70 by noon. With very little clouds in the sky it was one of the better editions to photograph compared to previous years. As I have done for the last several years I [...]

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Out photographing the night sky…

By admin | Published September 24, 2011

In between the cloud and fog banks, last night turned into good night for seeing and photographing the night sky. With a lot of attention focused on where the NASA UARS satellite would come crashing down had sort of hoped to see it streak across the sky but alas Northern Minnesota didn’t see anything. Did [...]

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August 5th Aurora Borealis over Lake Superior

By admin | Published August 8, 2011

Wow, the August 5th Aurora display was simply breath taking. Through out the day I kept getting the space weather alerts courtesy of Spaceweather.com. The last one I got that day said the Planetary K-index had hit an 8. I can’t even remember ever getting an alert beyond 5 or 6. I was hoping for [...]

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NVGP Stage 6 – Stillwater Criterium – Stillwater, MN

By admin | Published June 20, 2011

Well the 2011 Nature Valley Grand Prix is now in the books. Some great racing in Stillwater gave us Amber Neben (HTC Highroad) and Jesse Anthony (Kelly Benefit Strategies-Optum Health) as our overall winners. From the photographer perspective it was a great event to photograph, plenty of emotion and exciting action. Will be interesting to [...]

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