Mayo Clinic Panorama (Original B&W Photography)

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The Mayo Clinic is a world-famous medical facility and network. Rochester, MN, my hometown, is where the clinic was born and continues dominate the city. I was back in town and had an appointment, so I grabbed my camera and the 24-70mm lens (versatile) to grab a few photos from the top floor of the clinic's Mayo Building.

^{Street Level Vista}
This is the main entry of the Mayo and Gonda buildings. In the foreground is a circular cul-de-sac, where patients can be dropped off and picked up. Just eyond, is a pedestrian street, which ends at a shopping center. The suspended tunnel is part of Rochester's Skyway, a system of enclosed foot bridges and hallways allows patients to navigate between buildings without venturing outside in the frigid Minnesota winters.

^{Not On Fire}
This is, perhaps, Rochester's most recognizable structure: the Plummer Building. It houses a carillon, an instrument played much like a piano that sounds a system of bells, and is played by a professional carillon musician at noon. As you can see, the city has allowed Mayo to build larger buildings up around it. The Plummer Building was once visible from every direction outside the city center. The "smoke" in this photo is actually steam from a building below.

^{Ziggy Zaggy Glass}
There is an abundance of art throughout Mayo Clinic's campus. Paintings, sculpture, etc. adorn the lobbies, waitingrooms, and long corridors. Many of these pieces of art are donations from wealthy patients and patrons.
Every floor of the Gonda building has a piece of glass art in a case, just beyond the elevators, making them the first thing a patient sees.
^{18 Flors Above Photo #1}
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