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Happy hour with my dear friend Dan Lowinger.

January 28, 2020 Nathaniel Barber
Dan Lowinger portrait (color)

Some coincidences are so incredible, it makes you wonder what else is going on out there, you haven’t stumbled into yet.

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In people Tags friends, Twin Cities, Bellingham, Portland, West Coast/Midwest, musician, photography, portrait, January 2020, fences, people

Where once was terror, there is now joy

January 26, 2020 Nathaniel Barber

My friend, Cali Jirsa described finally putting on spiked tires to ride in the winter thusly: “Where once was terror, now there is joy.”

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Tags Bike, Surly Cross Check, Bicycling, Minnesota, Rural roads, Winter

A shared moment, on the train

January 17, 2020 Nathaniel Barber
Funjuns on the train

A shared moment on the Twin Cities’ Metro.

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Tags train, winter, strangers, funjuns, portrait, January 2020

Taking pictures of strangers

January 14, 2020 Nathaniel Barber

Capturing portraits of strangers on the street

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In people Tags street photography, people of Minneapolis, waiting for the bus, minneapolis technical college, Portrait

Travis Russell and the phenomenon of flight.

January 13, 2020 Nathaniel Barber
Travis Russell and the balloon - Nathaniel Barber Blog

While explaining his hobby of building model airplanes, flight and aeronautics, my dear friend Travis Russell illustrates the mystery of work—that something beyond the task, that consumes us and pushes us further, to work harder. Even when our better judgement tells us to sit on the couch and watch Raising Arizona.

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In Essays Tags airplanes, work, creativity, science, aeronautics, model airplanes, hobbies, flight

Under the Hennepin Ave. Bridge

January 13, 2020 Nathaniel Barber
Hennepin Ave. Bridge

Get the shot, even if it kills you. I mean, not really, but still, get the shot.

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Tags Hennepin Ave. Bridge, Bridge, Symmetry, water, night, night photography, time lapse, angles, architecture, winter, Mississippi river, January 2020, Architecture

Man at bar

January 12, 2020 Nathaniel Barber
Man at Minneapolis bar

Man at bar talking to himself.

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Tags barfly, man at bar, bar, drinking, beer, skyways, Minneapolis Skyways, January 2020

Minneapolis skyline

January 11, 2020 Nathaniel Barber

The view from the Hennepin Skyway

Minneapolis skyline from Hennepin Skyway.

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Tags Minneapolis, skyline, twin cities, buildings, architecture, stories, January 2020, Architecture

Man Down

January 8, 2020 Nathaniel Barber
City of Minneapolis Manhole Cover - Nathaniel Barber Blog

Here, the City of Minneapolis could have just plugged a hole. Instead they chose to plant a flag. Bravo City of Minneapolis!

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Tags Manhole covers, Minneapolis, utilitarian art, art

A farewell to coworkers

January 6, 2020 Nathaniel Barber

A farewell to coworkers.

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Tags headshot, coworker, Shawshank Redemption, quote, January 2020, people

Blair Arcade

January 2, 2020 Nathaniel Barber

The building where I work and it's place in Saint Paul history.

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Tags Saint Paul, Blair Arcade, Blair Flats, Architecture, History, Saint Paul history, symmetry, buildings, January 2020

Birds and the Minneapolis Skyway

January 1, 2020 Nathaniel Barber
Bird impact on Minneapolis Skyway

The Minneapolis Skyways are a wonder of this city, and unfortunately, deadly to birds. A crowd gathers, as I collect these delicate photographs of a birds impact on the skyway windows.

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Tags bird, Minneapolis, skyway, black and white, January 2020

Is the field actually empty?

December 11, 2019 Nathaniel Barber

A series of photos I took recently, and a short story about visiting Hancock Field Station, in Eastern Oregon, and how, if we look closer at what we previously thought was empty or dull, we might find something surprising.

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Tags photography, Minnesota, rural landscape, short story, OMSI, look closer, learning new things, landscapes

Peacock Groove Bicycles

December 4, 2019 Nathaniel Barber

Erik Noren is a nut

That time I took Greg, my bicycle, to Erik Noren’s shop, and home of Peacock Groove Cycles, to get snappy paint job, and Erik let me take a shitload of pictures.

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In Photo Diary Tags Bicycles, Framebuilder, Handmade Bikes, Craft, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Peacock Groove Bicycles, Shop, Metal shop, Erik Noren

Greg, the bicycle

September 11, 2019 Nathaniel Barber
Pink bicycle - Nathaniel Barber blog

It takes a village to raise a bicycle. Greg is no exception. The story of Greg is a story of community and reconciling darling projects with real life and how nothing is ever perfect, but we need to move on anyway.

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In Stories Tags Bicycles, Story, Photography, hobbies, community, bike building

Anthropology

August 13, 2019 Nathaniel Barber
Loring park - Nathaniel Barber Blog

I walked right past, remembering that cruel anecdote from that anthropology course—wondering if I am being filmed as part of a study on altruism and how some wicked people can just walk on by.

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In Essays Tags Loring, Loring Park, Minneapolis, drunks

the Zen art of Hippo Hardware

July 17, 2019 Nathaniel Barber
Hippo Hardware - Nathaniel Barber Blog

We returned to Hippo Hardware one last time to redeem an $11 store credit. I brought my camera to snap pictures of every little thing in the store and remember how, even in a city as rapidly changing as Portland, there are still some genuinely beautiful pockets holding their corner.

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Tags Hippo Hardware, Portland, PDX, Attractions, hardware, places and spaces, photography

A family moves from Portland to Minneapolis

July 11, 2019 Nathaniel Barber
Pod Shipping Container - Nathaniel Barber Blog

How to sum up the incredible and complex forces, both pushing and pulling, that would provoke a family to leave their beloved home for a new city, across the country?

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In Essays Tags Portland, PDX, Minneapolis, MPLS, Moving, Family, Dear God WHY?

Delicious Donuts, Portland Ore.

July 2, 2019 Nathaniel Barber
Delicious Donuts - Nathaniel Barber Blog

A recent visit, and farewell, to my favorite donut shop in Portland, Oregon brings an encounter with Old Portland, New Portland, and this place we still call home, but don’t live in anymore.

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In Best Of Tags Donut, donuts, Delicious Donuts, Portland, Moving

Most bad companies are bad on accident. PODS are bad on purpose.

June 9, 2019 Nathaniel Barber

Like, they are terrible. Just absolutely awful. Danger. You'll have better luck carrying your household across country than we did when we moved from Portland to the Twin Cities.

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In Essays Tags PODS, customer service, awful business
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