Typically, October is a month of rest and recovery and calm in the northwoods. Grand Marais gets slow, the woods change from showy to a state of waiting for winter. It gets easy to find a seat in a restaurant and the weather is great. It wasn’t a calm month for me though. I ran
The last year has been a good one for my photography. I’ve felt like I’ve really pushed myself to get outside and photograph more often, but I also feel like I’m making more images that way that I envisioned them. I think that’s reflected in this year’s calendar — although last year’s calendar was pretty
Another September and another year is gone in Grand Marais. For some reason, I always think of the middle of October as the start of a new year, because in Grand Marais our summer season is basically when we make money. We have about 2.5 months to make enough money to last the rest of
August Wrap-Up August was a busy month in the Grand Marais area, it kicked in with Fisherman’s Picnic, then we had the Grand Portage Rendezvous Days and Powwow. That was followed by an extremely busy week for kayak guiding, which was followed by another extremely busy week of kayak guiding. And then, everything stopped and
Before I moved to Grand Marais, I used to spend springs in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and I’ve backpacked 100s of miles in the park. I recently returned to the park for a few days and everywhere I went screamed fall colors. The good news is that the fall colors in the Smokies
Wow! What a busy month (and weirdly cold). July has been my busiest yet. My kayak guiding company, North Shore Expeditions was busy, I did lots of portraits and wrote several magazine articles. There were days this month that I worked 20 hours straight just to get everything done. This summer in the northland has
Where did June go? It zipped by and I’m a little glad it did, because it was a cold month with lots of bugs and other than family portraits, it was a low volume shooting month for me. I did manage to get out and make some pictures that I like, but overall it was
This May earned a new slogan, “May’s cold weather and cold showers bring June flowers.” What a weird month in the northland. It was far below average in temperatures and had lots of gray skies. But, at times those skies cleared and the night photography was great, because the Milky Way’s galactic core made an
Lake Superior’s shoreline offers a basalt shores, rugged cliffs and untouched forests that are only reachable by boat. A kayak allows you to get close enough to these features to easily photography them and kayaks can easily land on shore to allow you to explore. They also look great in pictures. On this kayak photography
April was a whirlwind for me. I was in Florida for the first part of the month both on vacation and then kayaking in the Florida Keys with friends finishing up a three-year kayaking expedition. On the way back from Florida, I swung through the Smoky Mountain National Park, and when I got home, I
