Learn to photograph at night. Join photographer Bryan Hansel, www.bryanhansel.com, for a night of shooting in the dark. After a 45 minute slideshow/discussion, we’ll head to the Coast Guard parking lot and photograph Grand Marais as and after the sun…
With Lake Superior solid, it’s been so-so to walk along the shore on the ice. Taking advantage of the frozen lake, I wandered down to the Lutsen sea caves and crawled back into one of the ice caves just at…
Johnson Falls flow into Pine Lake. This is a short trip into the BWCA, but could be accomplished during a longer day trip. Very worthwhile! And I thought the falls at the Stairway Portage were the best in the BWCA.…
Lake Nipigon is a four hour drive from Grand Marais. This four hours puts it an equal distance away from me as the Apostle Islands, so it becomes a hard call on which way to drive for a sea kayaking…
I did a 13 mile kayak circumnavigation of Susie Island on Monday. On the way, I stopped for a second to pay my respects to the Little Cedar Spirit Tree (Opens in a New Window). Traditionally, a pinch of tobacco…
The Kadunce River on the northshore of Minnesota is one of those rivers that you never know exactly what you’ll get. Sometimes, it’s a raging whitewater river (Opens in a new window), sometimes it’s calm and easy to hike up…
Adam backed off the rock ledge looked over his shoulder, pushed off, gathered speed, and jumped off. I watched him soar through the air, land the leap, fall forward, and I shouted, “Are you okay?” He was fine, but his…
I used to write for a magazine that had several articles in each issue called “Quick and Dirty.” They covered many topics, but the main goal of each article concentrated on accomplishing a complicated goal quickly with high quality results.…
Community Ed Cheat Sheets for those in the Basic Digital Class. Right click and Save these images to print out and paste on a 3×5 notecard. They’ll serve as reminders for you. There’s also a white balance cheat sheet here:…