Meet & Greet! With Puppies!!

I recently started volunteering for Safe Hands Rescue as a photographer at their community events. Safe Hands brings dogs up from a shelter in Kentucky and finds them forever homes in the Twin Cities area. This was my first event with them at Park Tavern in St. Louis Park. The thing about puppies is that they are very difficult to photograph! Luckily people were encouraged to pick them up and hold them which made it a LOT easier. All in all a fun event with about 3 dozen cute puppers.

Nikon D600 w/ Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G

Institute of Ice

I stopped by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts a couple weeks ago to see the ice sculptures they had on display in the courtyard. All were based on some of the more popular pieces inside the museum. Not sure if they had them commissioned, but they were created by a local company Minnesota Ice Sculptures. Even though I was there the day after it opened, all the pieces were already in a state of meltdown. In spite of this, it did produce some interesting textures inside the ice as one would see in a melting ice cube. It also gave me the chance to test out my newly acquired lens.

Nikon D600 w/ Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G lens