Northern Edge Retreat

07/03/2025

Boone and friends 🦆 💙

06/26/2025

Hill of Beans Cabin on
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06/26/2025

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06/26/2025

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06/25/2025

MLR member Shelia Johnston is leading the charge on loon rescue in Minnesota. Please share widely. Post on lake association websites. Put it in your annual newsletters and local media.

06/22/2025

Beats the cities heat! 🔥

06/22/2025

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"Dancing Loon"

I didn’t particularly feel like getting up at 4:30am for the third morning in a row and then paddling several miles before photographing sunrise. I even had another much easier sunrise location scouted that was a short walk from my car, but I felt like the water was calling me and decided to slide my canoe into the water.

It was a glass-calm morning, the kind where you almost feel guilty breaking the silence with the sound of your paddle. Steam was floating over the water, which I knew would burn off shortly after the sun rose.

After shooting sunrise I was paddling back to the landing when I noticed a loon hanging out in one of the shaded bays that still had steam on it. I knew it was a long shot, but if the loon was amenable to it, there was a chance I could photograph it in some dramatic light. I was careful to keep my distance and eventually the loon warmed up to me, even popping up out of the water a mere 15 feet from the canoe after one of its dives.

Then the sun popped up over the trees, creating the magical backlight I was seeking. After a while my neck and arms were starting to get tired from holding my heavy medium format camera. Then the brief moment arrived where the lighting was perfect and the loon decided to put on a show. That’s when I snapped this image.

06/22/2025

Love Lupines 💜

"Lupine on Fire" - captured along Minnesota's North Shore of Lake Superior

I had discovered this field of Lupine along Lake Superior two days earlier. Knowing their short blooming season, I returned four times over three days, but was defeated by flat skies and windy conditions on the first three. Finally on my fourth time returning, I captured the flowers in peak bloom with one of the most vibrant sunrises I’ve ever witnessed. For a moment, the wind calmed and allowed me to make this exposure during the most magnificent moment.