Spiders on the Minnesota Building
The photos that make up this image were taken between noon and 1:25pm on November 4th, 2016 from the window of our apartment, #1613 at 111 East Kellogg Boulevard, St Paul, MN.
This final image is the composite of 70 images chosen from 1001 shots taken of the scene. The original idea was a celebration of the workers. The image shows the haste, effort and teamwork that these five or six guys employed to cover this flat roof with gravel. As I began to assemble these images I realized that there was a second story going on at the train station on the ground past the roof. Office workers on lunch break, travelers running to make the train, mother with babies and as many more stories as the viewer wishes to make up. I no longer live in this building but the view from this window was forever fascinating. It has made me more aware of the movements of the river of people that make up a city. The Image was made with my Nikon D600 with a 24mm-70mm lens zoomed to 70mm. I was shooting a ISO100 with an exposure of 1/60 of a second at ƒ14. I shot on a tripod without moving the camera. Seventy images as layers in Photoshop were used in this picture. It took three months to perfect the masks.
