I'm a Twin Cities (Minneapolis) based photographer with a passion for portraiture and urban skyscapes. I pride myself on being a bit of an eclectic who takes an interest in all manner of people and places and travel a fair bit, so I try to include other elements of my work into my blog. My work tends to use a modern style with a mind toward drawing out the edges in life. I draw inspiration in my portraiture from Greg Gorman, Herb Ritts, Platon, and a handful of other masters of the art.
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Greg Benz
CarbonSilverPhotography@gmail.com
The Twins are pretty interesting. Minneapolis is sort of the boisterous brother who gets all the attention, and St Paul the quiet brother whose also interesting, but goes a little less noticed. Everyone in the Twin Cities has a favorite (I think mine’s pretty apparent, although I enjoy the other tremendously as well). And it’s...
I headed down to the MN Bike Festival a couple nights ago. The men’s and women’s races were incredible! I had bikes flying by, inches from my camera, at 35MPH+ The wind alone gets your heart pumping. In between races, there were some stunt riders who put on a very cool...
This is “Slumhog Millionaire”, the mascot for the St Paul Saints (minor leage baseball). This guy was one ornery little rascal – shaking like crazy and grunting. They should use it as some sort of guard animal at night. Between innings, they bring him out in different outfits (I’m pretty sure one was...
The Cathedral of St Paul was opened in 1905 and has is one of the most striking pieces of architecture in the state.
The interior of the Minnesota State Capitol building in St Paul is gorgeous! Marble everywhere. I believe this is the ring where Jesse Ventura would wrestle senators until they agreed to his budget proposals.
Random story: A few years ago, a deer crashed through one of the windows in this building and ran...
The Cathedral of St Paul is incredibly beautiful.
The Minnesoty History Museum hosts free concerts out on this pavilion in the summer, and there’s a great view of downtown St Paul from here…
This image was also shot minutes before the police dispersed the crowd (see yesterday’s post). This cop was pretty cool / sharp. The mood was pretty tense (chants of “We all live in a ____ police state”, a few folks who’d already been maced, etc) and this guy just waved / made a peace sign...
You may have seen the image in the news (NPR and others) showing this riot cop on top of Mickey’s Diner while smoke / flash grenades / bean bag “bullets” were shot into the crowd. I took this image probably 10 minutes before that all went down. I took a queue from the guys in...
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