This captivating photograph showcases the iconic Lowry Bridge, illuminated in a striking blue hue, gracefully spanning the Mississippi River. The city skyline sparkles in the background, with the Wells Fargo Center and IDS Center standing tall against the night sky.
Minneapolis has no shortage of beautiful views. But there are a handful of compositions in this city that feel less like photographs and more like geometry, places where the built environment and the natural world align so precisely that the camera almost can't believe what it's seeing.
The Lowry Avenue Bridge at night is one of them.
Completed in 2011, the Lowry Avenue Bridge replaced an aging structure with something that has become one of the most visually distinctive landmarks on the Minneapolis riverfront. Its tied-arch design is graceful on its own. But it's the lighting system, programmable, color-shifting, capable of displaying everything from its signature electric blue to full holiday palettes, that transformed it from infrastructure into icon. On most nights, the bridge glows blue. And on the right night, with the right conditions on the river, it does something remarkable.
It reflects.
Reflections in Blue was made on one of those rare calm evenings when the Mississippi goes still enough to act as a mirror. The blue arch rises from the left bank, curves across the full width of the frame, and descends to the right, and then the river catches it and pulls it downward into a second arc that curves back in the opposite direction, completing a full ellipse of electric blue light that frames the entire Minneapolis skyline within it. The scattered lights of downtown, purple, red, green, and white, reflect in columns across the dark water. The image is perfectly, almost impossibly symmetrical.
It had been nearly a decade since the last attempt at this composition. When a calm evening presented itself, there was no hesitation. This is the result: a newer, sharper, more fully realized version of a view that has always deserved the best possible treatment.
Printed large on fine art paper, canvas, metal, or acrylic, Reflections in Blue fills a room the way a great piece of music fills a room; it has a structure and a logic that you feel before you fully understand it. The tonal range from deep black to vivid blue to warm amber is extraordinary at scale, and the elliptical geometry of the arch and its reflection gives the eye a natural path to follow that never quite resolves. You keep looking. That is the mark of a strong image.
For anyone who loves Minneapolis, loves the river, or simply wants a photograph that stops people in their tracks, this is that print.