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An out of place 9/11 memorial, in the Mall of America

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One of many glass domes in the Mall of America

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At Nickelodeon Universe in the Mall of America

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Minneapolis seems to have a great love of bronze statues of fictional characters; Mary Tyler Moore, Downtown 

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I took the next series of pictures out of my car sunroof, by putting the camera on 2 second delay and holding it up on my pseudopod; I'm surprised by how well a lot of them came out

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There are a number of lovely skyscrapers in Minneapolis 

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Notice the skywalk; an adaptation to the harsh Minnesota winter

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Streets, skyscrapers and skywalks

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Looking up!

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Here is a photo of the greenhouse at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, taken over. . . 

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Belvedere by Jackie Ferrara

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Inside the greenhouse, is Standing Glass Fish, by Frank Gehry

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Monkey business

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Spoonbridge and Cherry, by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen

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This is a forced perspective photo of Hare on Bell on Portland Stone Piers by Barry Flanagan made to appear to be leaping onto Spoonbridge and Cherry

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I edited this version in Pixelmator to remove the light poles from the background; I usually avoid photo manipulation, but a few of my shots in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden benefited from doctoring

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A child resting in Ordovician Pore by Tony Cragg

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The kid was quite a ham, he loved being photographed

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This is an unedited version of one of my favorite all time photographs; if I had a subject release on me when I took it, I could probably sell it for good money

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Here, I have removed a distracting face from the background using Pixelmator; I love the result

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Peace and Prometheus Strangling the Vulture II by Jacques Lipchitz

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The Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge, by Siah Armajani; both sculptural, and functional

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Paul Walter's Piece by Jackie Winsor

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Five Plates, Two Poles, by Richard Serra as reflected in Amaryllis by Tony Smith

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X with Columns by Sol LeWhitt

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Molecule by Mark di Suvero; note, there was a sign nearby that clearly stated "Do Not Climb On The Sculpture"

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The Spinner by Alexander Calder; I could not have better picked the colors for the girl's dresses, or their position, myself had I hired them and posed them

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Without Words by Judith Shea

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A very photogenic honeybee

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Another angle of the honeybee

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Sagacious Head 6 and Sagacious Head 7 by Magdalena Abakanowicz

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More angles on Spoonbridge and Cherry

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Really, this sculpture was great fun to photograph

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A striped gopher that posed for the camera

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A longitudinal shot of a thirteen-lined ground squirrel

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The next several are shots of a few of the benches that make up Selections From the Living Series by Jenny Holzer; zoom to read the phrases, these were my favorites

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Me, as a ghost, as reflected in Two-way Mirror Punched Steel Hedge Labyrinth by Dan Graham

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Two-way Mirror Punched Steel Hedge Labyrinth by Dan Graham behind Seat-Leg Table by Scott Burton

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A street scene

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The Minneapolis skyline

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The Minnesota Slip Bridge, in Duluth

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Night shot of the iconic Aerial Lift Bridge, in Duluth 

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The Spirit of Lake Superior by Kirk St. Maur; the fact that she looks kind of mean is appropriate, there are a lot of lost ships in Lake Superior

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Determined Mariner by Richard Salews in Duluth MN

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A map on a manhole cover, in Duluth

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The Fountain of the Wind, by Douglas Freeman in Duluth MN

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Historic Central High in Duluth

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First Methodist Church of Duluth

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The view from the hill on which the church is located

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The gigantic copper pyramid was quite impressive

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A defunct ski jump

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At the University of Minnesota, Duluth