North shore falls & lighthouses

[pulsar_nx]

With views like these, made it very hard to return to SW MN. Back to the heat and farm fields

High Falls, Grand Portage state park

Rapids on the Pigeon River, Grand Portage state park

Upper Falls, Judge C. R. Magney state park, impromptu HDR

Grand Marais lighthouse

Duluth lighthouse

View from the small fishing boat, Lake Superior

[Birdsong]

I love your Judge C R Magney photo. Beautiful. I'm having the same SWMinn readjustment issues after canoeing the Boundary Waters earlier this week. Uck--this humidity is nasty down here.

[reinhard1]

hard to pick the favorite being a product of the arrowhead. no. 3 with everything being a hair away. good luck and thank you.

[eyeguy 54]

very nice set, thanks for sharing.

[pulsar_nx]

Thanks for the compliments.

I'll try and post another that I think may be better than the first one. For some reason I like the wider shot of the valley better. All of the detail looks great as my desktop image.

[dkhntr]

Did you adjust anything to get the water effect to looks so "creamy"? That is SO cool. Did you shoot with a DSLR? I assume so, remeber your settings?

[pulsar_nx]

For the last one, Olympus E-620 DSLR, 100ISO, F22, 2.5sec, 18mm.

I was going to bring my Neutral Density filter but forgot to bring it, lucky for me, I didn't need it. The polarizer filter probably helped a little bit though.

What causes the creamy water is the 2.5 second exposure, the longer the exposure the more smooth water becomes. Of course I also used a tripod.

[dkhntr]

Thanks. My wife is an aspiring photographer. And SHE made me ask what it was. I had no clue what your talking about, but she did. I just like the pics!

[captainshane]

Awesome stuff!

[Canon Guy]

Love the water motion shots!

[Hwood]

High Falls, never been there. Looks like a great place to go.

[ShawnZ]

Love the look of the first image, especially with the early morning light shining through on some spots in the upper part of the frame.