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The Photos We Leave Behind
On memory, loss, and photography.
May 3
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Nine Years, One Sunrise Composition: A New Year’s Day Photo Project
Every January 1st for the past nine years, I’ve stood in the same place and photographed the same sunrise on Lake Superior.
Jan 11
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Winter Has Arrived
Photos of the northland during early winter
Dec 14, 2025
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24mm is the best landscape focal length
For this issue, I’m going to write about how 24mm is the best landscape focal length.
Mar 12, 2023
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They Put the Boundary Waters in Harms Way
During a recent vote in Congress, Republicans removed protections from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the most used wilderness area in the…
Apr 19
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Photos of the Early Season Milky Way
Milky Way season on the north shore of Lake Superior has now entered the reasonable time, but it won’t last long.
May 31
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The New Aura of Photography
In a world flooded with AI-generated images, the true value of photography may no longer be in what can be reproduced, but in what can be witnessed…
Mar 8
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Sorry to Interrupt Your Solitude
A personal essay about what experiencing solitude under the winter night sky means, and how it feels being the one that interrupts another’s solitude.
Mar 22
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Why Your Favorite Photos Matter More Than Your Best Ones
Why your favorite photos, not your best ones, might be the clearest map to your evolving photographic style.
Dec 28, 2025
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When the Gales of November Come Early
For All Who Rest Beneath the Waves, Widen the Edmund Fitzgerald Remembrance
Oct 19, 2025
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Photos From the Apostle Island Ice Caves
A brief return of a rare winter phenomenon and how changing conditions and crowds reshaped the way I photographed one of Lake Superior’s most fleeting…
Feb 22
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Photography is Ninety-Nine Percent Showing Up
Photography is 99% showing up and doing the work and 1% imagination.
Mar 9, 2025
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