Minnesota's Scenic North Shore

[buzzsaw]

One of my favorite places to visit. I was invited along with a fellow friend photog this past spring and was basically treated to a guided tour to many of the North Shore's scenic hot spots. here are a few images from that trip back in May.

Shovel Point at Tettegouche State Park. We timed this right with the great morning light and semi cloud cover! These colors in the sky lasted only minutes and changed fast.

This one needs to be cropped to a pano, too much dead space at the top and bottom, but I like the colors.

Split Rock Lighthouse. Same weekend as the pics from above, another absolutely beautiful morning, although one of our guys slammed into a deer on the way down from Schroeder.

Some dead space on the bottom of this one as well... needs to be cropped off. I liked the addition of the rocks.

The sun blasting behind, cropped to a pano.

I walked over around a bit to try and find a location that I hadn't seen photographed a million times and came away with this shot.

Gotta add the anchor point right?

Caribou Falls ... my tripod was in the water as were my feet... ICE WATER was bone chilling and painful! WAAAA

Taken over at High Falls in Tettogouche.

Last but not least...a reflecting pool near the stream.

Thats all for now.

[EatSleepFish]

Very cool!!! All of them are my favorite!

[finnbay]

The North Shore has to be one of the best places on the continent to shoot photos. Very nice work!

[MN Shutterbug]

Glad to see you're making up for lost time. I see the making of a calendar, with these awesome shots.

[Dan Thiem]

Incredible! Very, very nice. Thanks Buzz!

[chaffmj]

Nice shots Buzz and welcome back. Have you been back to the hockey forum yet to talk smack?

[WCS]

Love them all. Love visiting the North shore. I checked out your HSOforum Buzz, lots of great stuff. Were the cougar pictures from the wild or captive?

[jonny_redhorse]

All great images Mike!....that very first image does it for me!

[buzzsaw]

First off, thanks for looking and commenting, I always appreciate any feedback... I'll also take any CC I can get as it only helps us improve. (open invitation)

WCS, here is a copy and paste job from another post in regards to your question. I took the Cougar shots you see on my pbase site at the Minnesota Wildlife Connection in Sandstone, I've made three trips there in the past year and find it to be a valuable resource for getting images otherwise very difficult to obtain. They are captive animals that are transported to free roaming (non caged in) area's. They have "handlers" to keep an eye on the animals. Toot my lucky horn time ... I actually got the September cover shot with the US Fish & Wildlife services endangered species bulletin... a link can be found on my site at the bottom portion of the page... I'd post it here, but don't know if I can or not? Steve? Anyways, I've been very active out and about and have tried my best to have a wide range of shots, I have a few out of state trips planned in the coming months as well, so I'll be sure and post pics from those as well.

[hendenhook]

Wanted to say thanks for the posts, very cool stuff and well done. It takes some effort and time to get posts up on here but appreciate that you took the time. I sure enjoy this site and your photos are great.

[Steve Foss]

They're all really nice, Buzz. Too many good ones to pick a favorite. I do really also like the contrast in the last one between the sharp foreground pool reflection and the fuzzy water behind it.

[caseymcq]

WOW, those shots are awesome.

[buzzsaw]

Thanks again casey, Heddonhook and Steve. I appreciate your kind words.

[mmeyer]

Buzzsaw,

Great photos! I know everyone has said it already but I thought it could be said again. I'm glad there's yet another person posting great photos here to get inspiration from.

Thanks

Mike

[buzzsaw]

Thanks, Mike! I see you dialed in some HTML and CSS code on your Pbase site... I like the scrolling photo's on the first page. I just starting messing around with code to spruce things up, it's kinda challenging.

[harvey lee]

Thanks for the great photos. I really enjoyed them all.

[WifeKidsandDog]

Wow,

They're all amazing but the last one is my favorite. Love the reflection.

[WifeKidsandDog]

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That is a fantastic cover! Congrats!

I've heard a few people talk about the MWC and would love to go there. Would a 70-200mm lens on a 1.6x crop be OK or would you recommend longer?

Cheryl

[buzzsaw]

Thanks, Cheryl!

The 70-200 would be one of your best choices for up there. I switched back and forth between the 80-200 F/2.8 and the 300mm F/2.8 on my last trip and it worked out great.

[Ely Lake Expert]

wow, very nice. Water photos are always my favorite.

[buzzsaw]

Thanks, Ely! Appreciate your nice words.

[Redstormy]

Gorgeous shots Buzz!

Red