justin @ pragmaticphotography.com

I’ve had several people comment that they thought I had an odd or abstract way of presenting my pictures.  This blog’s software (Wordpress) displays “gallery” pictures in a center-cropped square fashion, which is not what the actual picture looks like.  Be sure to click on each picture once to see it represented by itself on a separate page, and then click on it a second time to see it displayed larger (better resolution/quality).

I will look for a better gallery “plug-in” in order to present them closer to as I shot them.

Here’s a collection of photos I took at the Minnesota Polar Bear Plunge held on March 5, 2011:

Roger Clyne and P.H. Naffah from Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers performed at the With One Breath benefit at O’Gara’s in St. Paul, MN.

Heather helped out on a few — enjoy (be sure to click on the thumbnails):

Rachel and Joe met me and my assistant (my wife Heather) at the Mill City Museum and St. Anthony Main area for their engagement photo shoot back in October.  They were a fun couple and kept the smiles coming despite the brisk fall Minnesota weather.  Here are some of the best shots from that day.  Be sure to click on the photos:

We’re heading back to the ‘States.  I have a few thousand pictures to sort through from the last few days of our trip, but here are four I whipped up real quick from our day at High Country Horses:

We hiked up to the Franz Josef Glacier and I took the following pictures.  Note: The last two pictures contain little stick figures that are actually people, so that should give a good indication of scale:

The next set of pictures includes some taken by me and others by Heather:

Here are pictures taken on our first full day in New Zealand.   The lady standing to the right of a smiling gentleman was Ang, our tour guide that took us to some of the scenery below:

I attended the Sydney Photography Tour in the Rocks District of Sydney a few days ago.  The following pictures were from that event:

I thoroughly enjoyed Alfonso’s instruction and picked his brain on several photographic concepts and technical approaches.  If anyone is intending on spending some time in Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane/Adelaide, I highly recommend contacting him and joining him on one of his tours.  He has great information for any level of photography experience, including those with point-and-shoot cameras!

(Alfonso is in the first photo of the gallery above.)

A rather light assortment for today:

For those curious, the mammal is a dugon.