So a little while ago I was contacted by Dan, one of the editors of Strongbox Magazine, an online magazine, to shoot a photo essay of my choosing. He said that I could pick really anything under the sun to shoot and that the only guideline that I had was that he needed the images and text, if I even wanted to use text, by a certain date.

Well let me tell you this project was more that a bit daunting. I needed to come up with a concept, shoot edit and submit in about a month and a half. I came up with idea after idea but none of them seemed to work or be something that I could pull off in the allloted amount of time. One of my ideas, was to document one of my road trips to the Badlands, but after getting home and looking at all my images I didn’t think that those images were right for the magazine and for my essay.

What i eventually came up with was the idea of long night exposures of my new city of Minneapolis. I took my camera, one lens, and my tripod and went out at around midnight on a couple of occasions to see what I could come up with. When I came home that first night I knew that this was it, I had a bunch of great images, and so I came up with other places around Minneapolis that I wanted to go at night to get some shots.

All the images that I took were long exposures, as in each exposure was at least 2 minutes long. So when you go out at midnight and don’t want to end up back at home at 4 am cuz you need some sleep you have to, A: work quick but smart and B: Know where you want to go and shoot. If you want to see the entire article please check it out at StrongboxMagazine.com

All images in the Article were Taken with:

Canon 40D
Sigma 17-35mm
Canon Remote Trigger (not wireless)
Silk Tripod