Random Photos

by Brian Bell on January 7, 2010 · 0 comments

in Personal, Photography

Here are a few random photos from over the years:

Taken early in the morning outside Caribou Coffee.

Langton Lake Park in Roseville, MN

Nazareth Chapel at Northwestern College, St. Paul, MN

Somewhere in Chicago

Off the porch at LEVEL Brand, Warehouse District, Minneapolis

Vulture Mine, somewhere deep in the heart of the Arizona desert

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