Minneapolis · Saint Paul, Minnesota
Twin Cities
at the edges
of light
Golden hour above the gorge. Blue hour on the Stone Arch Bridge. The city in winter, stripped back to geometry and cold light. Minneapolis and Saint Paul as landscape — not backdrop.
A city that earns
its light
The Twin Cities get underestimated as a landscape subject. The Mississippi Gorge running through Minneapolis is genuinely dramatic — steep wooded bluffs, the river below, light that changes entirely depending on the season and the hour.
The Stone Arch Bridge at 5am in January. Lake of the Isles in the last minutes before a storm. The downtown skyline from the West Bank at blue hour. These are the frames that demanded to be made.
Twin Cities
landscape notes
Minneapolis and Saint Paul don't announce themselves as landscape subjects. That's part of what makes them worth photographing. The light here is earned — you have to be at the gorge before sunrise, or on the bridge in January when the temperature drops past the point where most people stay home.
Mississippi Gorge
The gorge runs for eight miles through the south of Minneapolis — wooded bluffs, the river below, the Ford Bridge cutting across. At golden hour in autumn it competes with anything I've shot in East Africa. The challenge is the angle: most viewpoints look straight across, so finding elevation changes everything.
Stone Arch Bridge
Best photographed well before sunrise, when the bridge is lit and the city is still dark and the mist is on the river. By 7am in summer it's full of runners and the frame is gone. Winter gives you the most dramatic conditions — ice formations on the river, the mill ruins white with frost.
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The full landscape portfolio includes the North Shore of Lake Superior and travel work from East Africa and beyond.
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