Keweenaw

Sunset over the breaking ice at McClain State Park, Hancock, Michigan, April 8, 1994. As I recall, I was standing near the edge of the icepack, above about ten feet of water and about fifty feet from shore...not especially smart.

The diving pool at Canyon Falls, on the Sturgeon River near Chassell, Michigan. August 1994.

Rocks in Lake Superior off Keweenaw Point. August 1997.

Looking west from the Houghton side down Portage Lake, towards the Lift Bridge. September 1997. The bridge is the structure in the middle of the dark "saddle", and the Quincy #2 Shafthouse is the tiny structure on the horizon at right.

Sunset over Lake Superior, just north of Eagle Harbor. July 1997.

A conglomerate outcrop in Lake Superior, south of Copper Harbor. August 1997.

A really disturbing dolls-head, found in the stamp sand at an old copper mill. June 1994. Added some severe manipulation of the color curves. Really brings out the eyes. And not in a good way.

A really disturbing dolls-head, found in the stamp sand at an old copper mill. June 1994. I've always been both drawn to and repelled by the weirdness of this picture, and I remember being a bit spooked even while taking it. This version is pretty much as-is, only gamma-shifted to enhance the B-W contrast a bit. Time and exposure to UV and the stamp sand had turned the doll head's hair pink and its vinyl skin a ruddy grey. If you click on the map link, you can actually see the stamp sand on the satellite view, stretching a half-mile out from the mill and several miles south along the Lake Superior shoreline. Couldn't get away with creating a moonscape like that nowadays.

October 1994.

With Lake Superior in the distance. October 1994.

October 1994.

October 1994.

October 1994.

October 1994.

Lake Superior near Ontonagon, Michigan, Labor Day weekend, 1996. Despite the place's name (and reputation), the weather was perfect, the lake was warm enough to swim in, and the usual clouds of biting insects were nowhere to be seen.

Appropriate, given that we heard about Kurt Cobain's suicide on the way to the park that afternoon. From McClain State Park, Hancock, MI, April 8, 1994.

Slabs of rock under the water, taken from the edge of the pack ice at McClain State Park, Hancock, MI, April 8, 1994.

The Upper Entry Lighthouse at the north end of the Keweenaw Waterway, from McClain State Park, Hancock, MI, April 8, 1994.