Category: Lake Superior

North Shore Waterfalls

6/23/2019

Our week-long trip along the Minnesota North Shore of Lake Superior included stops at several state parks, waterfalls and lakeshore. Our travels took us to Gooseberry Falls State Park, Split Rock Lighthouse (see previous post), Tettegouche State Park and the Baptism River, Caribou Falls, the Temperance River State Park, Grand Marais, Hollow Rock near Grand Portage, the High Falls of the Pigeon River at Grand Portage State Park which borders Ontario, Canada, and many more stops along the way. Here are a few photos.
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Split Rock Lighthouse

6/17/2019

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I spent part of a couple of days at Split Rock Lighthouse State Park on the North Shore of Lake Superior last week. My intent was to get some photos of the lighthouse from this location where I had never been before. I have been to the lighthouse and the park many times, but not to this part of the lake shore. These views are facing northeast, where the sun rises at this time of year. A few of the photos are obviously in the mid-day. The sunrise photos were all taken on the same morning. As the light changed and I used different lenses and different positions the photos changed dramatically. [Click images to see larger]

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Lake Superior in Winter

1/10/2018

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Some years the North Shore of Lake Superior is frozen over or has huge ice flows by now, but despite several days of below zero weather the lake was still open when I was there last weekend. I like how the water washing up on the shore freezes on the rocks, creating an icy shore-line environment. Watch your step.
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Lightning over Lake Superior

8/11/2017

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Lightning over Lake Superior at Grand Marais, MN on a June moonlit night. Multiple 8-second exposures blended in Photoshop. After taking some sunset photos of the lighthouse (below) and waiting for the northern lights which never appeared, I was heading south to find a place to sleep before taking some sunrise photos. I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw a couple of lightning flashes and turned around back to a lake view of the storm. Setting up the camera on the tripod with an intervalometer set to take continuous 8 second exposures, I took photos of the storm moving across the lake for about 45 minutes.
The sailboat and lighthouse photos below were taken earlier in the evening at Grand Marais with a rain shower on the horizon. [Click the photos below to see larger.]

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North Shore Waterfalls

Split Rock Lighthouse

Lake Superior in Winter

Lightning over Lake Superior

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