{"id":161,"date":"2009-09-08T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2010-07-27T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T15:14:45","slug":"photos-of-minneapolis-and-the-mississippi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/photos-of-minneapolis-and-the-mississippi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of Minneapolis and the Mississippi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took last Friday off, and instead of sleeping in like a normal person would do, I decided to get up as usual and instead take some photos just after daybreak. A couple hours after sunrise and a couple hours after sunset are the best times to take photographs, and Friday morning was no exception. Some samples after the break; the rest are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/photo\/early%20morning%20mississippi%20river%2009-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I take many pictures of flowers, but I usually have no idea what they are. This is no exception: these are growing right behind my apartment and approximately a billion other places, and I don\u2019t know what they are. I need a good flower ID book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/photo\/early morning mississippi river 09-2009\/20090904-IMG_5058.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ZenphotoPress_thumb \" title=\"Closeup of a purple flower.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/photo\/zp-core\/i.php?a=early morning mississippi river 09-2009&amp;i=20090904-IMG_5058.jpg&amp;w=600&amp;h=\" alt=\"Closeup of a purple flower.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a picture of the Franklin Avenue Bridge near the water:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/photo\/early morning mississippi river 09-2009\/20090904-IMG_5110.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ZenphotoPress_thumb \" title=\"The Franklin Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/photo\/zp-core\/i.php?a=early morning mississippi river 09-2009&amp;i=20090904-IMG_5110.jpg&amp;w=800&amp;h=\" alt=\"The Franklin Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Downtown Minneapolis, with the Mississippi River in front:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/photo\/early morning mississippi river 09-2009\/20090904-IMG_5185.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ZenphotoPress_thumb \" title=\"Downtown Minneapolis reflected in the Mississippi River.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/photo\/zp-core\/i.php?a=early morning mississippi river 09-2009&amp;i=20090904-IMG_5185.jpg&amp;w=800&amp;h=\" alt=\"Downtown Minneapolis reflected in the Mississippi River.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, proof that fall is not so far away: some of the first fall color I\u2019ve seen this year:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/photo\/early morning mississippi river 09-2009\/20090904-IMG_5138.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ZenphotoPress_thumb \" title=\"The first signs of fall color along the Mississippi River.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/photo\/zp-core\/i.php?a=early morning mississippi river 09-2009&amp;i=20090904-IMG_5138.jpg&amp;w=800&amp;h=\" alt=\"The first signs of fall color along the Mississippi River.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been working on some HDR photos; I&#8217;ll upload them when they are done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took last Friday off, and instead of sleeping in like a normal person would do, I decided to get up as usual and instead take some photos just after daybreak. A couple hours after sunrise and a couple hours after sunset are the best times to take photographs, and Friday morning was no exception.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/photos-of-minneapolis-and-the-mississippi-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Photos of Minneapolis and the Mississippi River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,96],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-minneapolis","tag-mississippi-river","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}