Minnesota State Capitol

A photographer whose work I love to check out since I started my own photo blog months ago, came up with a great idea for a photo challenge this week.  Here’s my entry….  Check out his work and perhaps jump in on this challenge yourself!

On a not so chilly January day.  It was 23 degrees out today, which gave me the perfect opportunity to head over to my old stomping grounds and get a shot.  Unfortunately, there was also a protest getting ready to start, so I had to work fast.

I looked up a little history of our capitol building and found a great quote that I loved.  The capitol was designed by an architect named Cass Gilbert, who was only 35 years old at the time he won a contest to design the new state capitol building, in 1893.  Gilbert was supposed to have said, about his new role, “We live in an age that has the fad to credit men with ’specialties.’ . . . In art there should be no ’specialists.’ . . . In the old days, the architect, painter and sculptor were frequently one and the same man. There is no reason why they should not be so now.”