Visited the Elm Creek Falls in Maple Grove this morning. The Elm Creek Falls are in the Maple Grove Arboretum located here.
Looking over the falls.

Swirling Water

There are some branches hanging over the falls.

The bottom of the falls.

The swirling water and smooth water effect was created by using a B + W 77mm #110 3.0 (1000x) Neutral Density Glass Filter
which lets in 1000 times less light to my camera. These pictures were taken with 30 second exposures and required a tripod.
After eating lunch by the stream in Mears Park, I captured this image. I post processed it in Photomatix. I’m trying to decide if I’d like to purchase this program, so for now we will all live with the Photomatix watermarks. I hand held the three images it took to make this, so there were artifacts in the full-size image, but they all sort of disappeared when I re-sized it down. I think these will mostly go away if I use a tripod. Click the image for a larger view.

Mears Park in Saint Paul, MN

Flower in Mears Park, Saint Paul MN
Was taking pictures in the park and looked up, and I thought this would be a nice picture of the bank and the clouds:

Bank building.
I bike past these big toys everyday and think they would be great fun to take for a spin.

- Big toys that would be cool to drive.