Last Saturday, after a good dose of caffeine at Sebastian Joe’s and some grapefruit juice and zucchini fries at the Independent (seriously), I decided to throw my own after-party and do some night photography.

I headed over to the Lake Harriet bandstand because, for some reason, the small bridge and tunnel by the streetcar depot was calling my name. I remembered noticing it earlier that evening and being fascinated by yellow-orange light within the tunnel. It was about 2:30 am, the air was completely calm, and because of the scattered evening showers, it was also about as thick as the bugs swarming the parkway lights.

I took a handful of shots there, all exceeding 5-second exposures. What intrigued me most was how drastically different the Bandstand area was in the middle of the night, when all that’s around is the occasional drunken pedestrian and the occasional park police. An area that, during the day, is filled with activity and outdoor music suddenly seemed a little eerie (which my iPod probably played a role in)… So I took a stab capturing that feeling with a FLASH/ActionScript experiment:

view the experiment (best viewed with speakers on and lights off)

I know it’s somewhat unsettling to only see parts of the image … as was my intention … so I’ve posted the full photo and a couple others that I liked. Note that the 3rd photo was not enhanced in Photoshop at all. It was an 8-second exposure at f19 and that yellow-orange light…

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