The Week in Fridley Photos
Here is some of what there was to see around Fridley last week.
These are a few of the photos that appeared at Fridley Patch over that last seven days.
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
Viewfinder: Families Flock to Spring Fling at Springbrook Nature Center
Easter Bunny, Flying Pig, Llama, Kangaroo and dozens of volunteers greeted hundreds of families at Springbrook Nature Center's annual celebration.
It was less than springlike weather but the turnout was impressive anyway at Springbrook Nature Center's annual Spring Fling event Saturday afternoon. If you were among the few who weren't there, check out this photo gallery by Dave McCoy.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Viewfinder: Track and Field with Columbia Heights and Totino-Grace
Fridley Patch photographer captures the grit and grace of a high school track meet.
Some people only see track and field every four years when the Summer Olympics are on TV. That's a shame, because track and field features some of sports' greatest and most graceful moves. Photographer Chad Wrightson visited a meet this week, with athletes from Totino-Grace, Columbia Heights and Chisago Lakes high schools competing at Totino-Grace's field in Fridley.
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Viewfinder: Early Spring Comes to Rice Creek in Fridley
Water's rushing, birds are chirping, but winter hasn't quite let go along Rice Creek.
Beyond the rush of highways is a different Fridley where creek waters do the rushing. Early spring has come to Rice Creek, but evidence of winter remains in patchy snow piles and pools of pale green ice. You still hear the hum of traffic, but it's mixed with bird chirps, crow caws, duck quacks, creek burbles, and the occasional, mournful train horn. It's a different world, and it'll change fast with warming temps.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Week in Fridley Photos
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Photographers Keep Pace with Suburbs' Complexity, Professor Says
The University of Minnesota's John Archer charts changing views of suburbs in movies and photographs.
Photographers have done a better job than filmmakers at capturing the complex nature of suburban life, according to University of Minnesota professor John Archer. A local photographer working near Fridley is one of Archer's prime examples of how the makers of still images reflect unexpected suburban realities that motion pictures often pass over. Movies like The Stepford Wives (1975) and American Beauty (1999) broadly satirized suburban America as "a place of hollowness," Archer said in a recent lecture at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. It's a theme that has persisted in films from the 1970s to the present, he said. Still Images The same theme appears in the photography documenting suburban life over the last 40 years. But many …
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Troy Melhus
12:09 pm on Friday, April 1, 2011
Great photos Chris! more ›