Ely to Ely

View from hotel window in Ely, Iowa. August 8th, 5:40 am, 85 degrees.



View from middle of Snowbank Lake in Ely, Minnesota. August 8th, 11:05 pm, 65 degrees.

The reason for a picture. . .

After returning from two weeks in a cabin at the Blacklock Nature sanctuary where I struggled to take the pictures of the forest that I was supposed to be taking (or had proposed to be there taking, I got suckered into taking this photograph after resisting for several days by the outright beauty of the whole scene. This was at the end of week one and freed me up to spend the other week glutinously taking pictures after picture of the woods sparkling in the sunlight. I left both happy and defeated. More images from this new series--"the reason for a picture" are posted on mnartists.org