They don't build them like this any more - 03/27/08 04:11 PM



St. Paul Cathedral, St. Paul, Minnesota.  I never get tired of photographing this building, both inside and out.  Built in 1905, Emmanuel Louis Masqueray, a French architect trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, was selected to design what we know today as the fourth Cathedral of Saint Paul.  The church is made of Granite stone from St. Cloud, MNThe Cathedral's most prominent feature is a 120-foot-wide dome made of curved steel beams, covered with a clay tile surface and overlaid with copper. A copper-clad lantern, approximately 30 feet tall, sits on top of the dome. From … (19 comments)

High dynamic range imaging - 03/18/08 09:48 AM

 High dynamic range imaging, HDR.  Just playing around with it.  The photo was taken at dusk and is of the Wabasha bridge which spans the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul.  HDR is a photo processing technique where multiple photos are combined.  This photo is made from three photos of the same scene. The techique allows the photograph to contain more than the human eye can see. 
The technique has gotten more popular.  It does take some software and some computing power.   I like to think of it as what happens when geeks start using digital cameras.   
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