Today, I made my first post-Covid visit to the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul. The Minnesota State Fair is the largest state fair by daily attendance in the United States. I took these photos from 8:52 to 10:22 a.m. and used my Canon EOS R with kit lens.
My mom and I went to the first day of Chanhassen’s 40th annual Fourth of July celebration this evening. We’ve gone for the last three years now. I posted photos I took last year with my Google Pixel smartphone, which obviously limited image quality. This year, I made sure to bring my Canon EOS R. I also coordinated our time so I was able to take photos at the golden hour and the blue hour. The golden hour is the hour before sunset, and the blue hour is the hour after sunset (as an aside, it works the opposite way for sunrises). The sunset was at 9:04 p.m. tonight; these photos were taken between 7:58 and 9:25 p.m.
My mom and I went to Chanhassen’s Fourth of July celebration twice today (it is free, after all). It was sprinkling the first time we went at about 2:30 p.m. By the second time we went at about 6:45 p.m., the precipitation was over. The weather is significant because there will be heavy rain and a chance of thunderstorms tomorrow, Independence Day.
All photos were taken with my smartphone.
