Today I ventured out in the unseasonably warm Minnesota weather and approached photographing the water tower in a different manner.  I used flash for the first time.  Specifically, three flashes located off camera to the right.  Look below the photo for more details.
 

 
I used three flashes located off camera to the right. Two flashes were directly on the water tower operating at 100%, and one flash was lighting the grass at 25% power. A fourth on camera flash was used as a commander to trigger the other three flashes. This was mostly an experiment to see if I could light the whole thing. Taken at F/2.8, ISO 640, 1/2 second hand held. I used a longer exposure, so that a bit of color from the parking lot lights would creep in and make it not so stale looking and so that the clouds came out a bit.

I took a few photos with my film APS camera the last two months. Most of them were family photos, but I have a few to show below.

This photo is looking down the hiking and horse path in the northern section of Elm Creek Park Reserve, not too far east from the parking on French Lake Road.

Ash tree leaves in our backyard on the ground.

Dahlia flower.

My Honey Crisp apple tree. Planted summer 2010. Early in the year it was full of apples on all the small branches and all the way up to the very top. I ended up cutting off all but four of the apples so it wouldn’t be overloaded.

Made the pictures a little wider this time to fill the entire space. Now to mess with the blog software to make the space even bigger.

I like how the thistles glow gold with the setting sun.

I’ve added two new pictures to my article on Maple Grove’s Water Towers. They are of the Northern Water Tower.