Moody Morning in the Frozen Forest

 

I'm working on a major overhaul of my image library, attempting to clean it up and simplify it, getting rid of redundant images, etc. In the process I'm finding a lot of photos that I never worked on and never did anything with, and this time around they're striking me in a way that they didn't before. This is the first of those. It's a photo from February 2015, taken at Tettegouche State Park on the Minnesota shoreline of Lake Superior. Tettegouche has large cliffs right next to the lake and when the conditions are right, high winds and large waves can throw spray well up over the top of the cliffs into the forest, coating every inch of every tree in a thick layer of ice. It's one of the most fascinating things, in my opinion, that occurs on Lake Superior. 

Utah Aurora!

 

From my November trip to the Moab, Utah area... the night of November 11th yielded some surrealistic skies over my campsite along the Colorado River. An incredibly strong aurora storm filled the sky with some super intense colors, colors unlike just about anything I'd ever seen before. I spent a few hours watching and photographing the sky... it was very hard to pull myself away to go to bed in the rooftop tent, but eventually I had to call it a night. This was at the start of my time in the southwest on this trip, and I couldn't have imagined a better beginning to what would become two weeks of awesome adventures!