Monday, January 13, 2014

winter at minnehaha. { frost on flower }

I'm always excited when people want to do outdoor sessions in the winter.  It's a nice change from the few free indoor locations available.  What was even better about this session on Saturday was that the couple recently moved here from Texas.. they were a lot more daring to experience the weather than a lot of native Minnesotans are that I photograph!

We spent some time at Minnehaha Falls, by the falls and downstream a bit.  The day was a bit more mild than previous days but was still chilly and breezy.  Luckily down by the falls there was no wind and being without coats wasn't too terrible.  Although having a wet foot from going through the ice on Minnehaha Creek was a little chilly.. but thankfully it was my foot and not the mama's foot!

Here are a few of my favorites:

The frozen falls looked so neat.  People were climbing all over them and behind them.  I wish I had more time to explore but it was a busy day and we had to be careful since our main subject was a pregnant mama.  I think the walk down the snow packed stairs was probably the most treacherous part of our day.

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All of the stone walls and bridges had a thin fuzzy ice coating.

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I stayed on the bridge and used my giant 70-200mm lens for these.  I'm glad the mama was wearing red.  :)

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This was about where my foot crashed through the ice.  Whoops!

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The stairs in the photo below were much much easier than the first set of stairs were descended.  On our way up these stairs a few kids came sliding down the left side.  It looked like tons of fun!  The length that you see in the bottom photo is 1/5 the length of the stairs.. so it was quite the accomplishment for us to successfully make it down and up with a pregnant mama and with our bags!

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You can view the entire gallery (80 photos) here.

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