minnesota

Last month I was fortunate enough to be able capture the Northern Lights, the Aurora up at Split Rock Lighthouse along the North Shore Drive of Lake Superior in Minnesota. This was my 3rd camera I had set up. I went vertical with this one because of all of the action in the sky. I didn't think...

From a couple of weeks ago at Split Rock Lighthouse along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota when I was able to capture the Northern Lights. I had set up 3 cameras, this one was the Sony A6400 with the Samyang 12mm f2.0 lens. I aimed it at where the Aurora had the most activity in...

This is the Top 10 waterfalls along the North Shore Drive of Lake Superior in Minnesota with a couple of bonus waterfalls thrown in. I captured this while I was up in the Upper Midwest a few weeks ago chasing fall colors. The video is fun to capture, the assembly though is an all day job of...

I got held up and missed processing this one of Middle Gooseberry Falls along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota in time for Waterfall Wednesday, so I am posting it here instead. The color version looked nice, there was a few trees that had fall colors from this angle, but a lot were...

I finally was able to capture the Aurora! A lifelong dream finally came true. I had researched into flying up to Yellowknife in Canada and Fairbanks in Alaska, and I had also had thoughts that maybe on one of the solar storms I could just drive north until I saw it. Well driving to see it is...

This image was made using motion filters in Photoshop. I'm experimenting and this is my first that I'm satisfied with. Been away for a while now but I've got the bug back. Just purchased a Leica SL2-S and using M-mounted lenses. I still shoot Sony but I'm liking this camera. I hope to be a...

This is from Frotnenac State Park in Minnesota. I visited here the other day. It looks like a place I will want to visit again with fall colors. This is an iPhone image as I am traveling. All comments welcome, Jim

Last month at Split Rock Lighthouse in Minnesota, I was able to get there in peak fall colors. I spent a couple of evenings and morning there getting quite an assortment of sunsets and sunrises. This was one of the better ones, and was really a joy to witness. This was sunset. All comments are...

The name of the river and State Park along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota sounds like a fancy clothing line, but its not thankfully! :) This is from last month as I was chasing fall colors across Minnesota and Wisconsin. I hadn't even heard of this before I drove by it and turned...

A week after going up and spending 5 days in the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota and going on 3 occasions to capture this, I went back for a follow up. When I was first there the fall colors were awesome, probably in the 70-100% range. I knew going back that the fall colors would...

From Minnesota a few weeks back as I was chasing fall colors all over the state. This is somewhere east of Bemidji. There was a light bit of fog but it just didn't really show up in the raw image, so while processing it in ACR I used a slight bit of negative Dehaze to help bring out the foggy...

This is from Minnesota from yesterday. It was one of those u-turn moments. The sun would keep popping out momentarily and lighting up that stand of trees. It's amazing the difference in the look of them between being lit by the sun and being in shadow. As the leaves are rapidly falling off the...

This was from last week up in the Splitrock Lighthouse area in Minnesota, it reminds me of graffiti in that there is so much color it looks like someone just sprayed graffiti all over the place. All comments are welcome, Jim

This is from a week ago in Minnesota as I was traveling across the state from Bemidji to Duluth and then further on up. I really liked the way that the oranges were front and certain and book ended with the birch trees. Now this one was from my D850 and I did get to edit it on my laptop. All...

Sunrise this morning on the lake was very brief that I almost missed it. The skies were gray when I went out and for a brief moment I had this view before going back to gray.

I woke up and quickly ran down to the lake to snap my favorite dock with a brilliant sunrise. This ended up being a 4x2 horizontal panorama stitched in lightroom.

I did a series like this one many years ago and decided to try some new abstracts this morning.

I woke up entirely too early after a week on the road for the day job but I was greeted by a 'Fire in the Sky' kind of morning. It's a cool crisp morning and the colors were just insane . . . almost fluorescent! It's the silver lining for getting up so early.

The owner of Snap Fitness sponsored a benefit concert with Tim McGraw on Lake Minnetonka, MN this past Sunday. Signs were up in advance and the weather cooperated so the boats were out. This is a 5 image panorama with the DJI Mavic Pro and processed in LRCC.