https://www.thingelstad.com/categories/grand-marais-2024/ en Sun, 25 Feb 2024 07:37:42 -0500 https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/25/on-artist-point.html Sun, 25 Feb 2024 07:37:42 -0500 http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/25/on-artist-point.html <p>On Artist Point in Grand Marais in pre-dawn light to catch the sunrise.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2024/ff40737781.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="Photographers with tripods on an icy rocky shoreline at pre-dawn, overlooking a vast lake under overcast blue skies."> https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/24/lake-superior-grand.html Sat, 24 Feb 2024 22:36:31 -0500 http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/24/lake-superior-grand.html <p>Lake Superior, Grand Marais.</p> <p><video controls="controls" playsinline="playsinline" src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2024/c2315d9250.mov" width="640" height="360" poster="https://www.thingelstad.com/uploads/2024/905b12852d.png" preload="none"></video></p> https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/24/first-time-winter.html Sat, 24 Feb 2024 22:33:15 -0500 http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/24/first-time-winter.html <p>First time winter hiking today with these hiking crampons. Amazing stability and still easy to walk on.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2024/0e49e1ca98.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="Hiking boots fitted with red and black crampons with multiple metal spikes, standing on icy snow-covered ground."> https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/24/suggestion-from-bryan.html Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:13:43 -0500 http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/24/suggestion-from-bryan.html <p>Suggestion from <a href="https://www.bryanhansel.com">Bryan Hansel</a> to find <strong>your</strong> photography style — go through your photos for the year and pick your favorite single one from each month. Not your best, or most liked. Your favorite! Look at those twelve photos and reflect on what the common threads are between them all.</p> https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/24/ice-climbers-along.html Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:10:15 -0500 http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/24/ice-climbers-along.html <p>Ice Climbers along the Cascade River.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2024/00342c40a4.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="Two climbers on a frozen waterfall along a rocky canyon wall in winter, one ascending with ice axes, one belaying below."> https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/24/how-is-it.html Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:04:22 -0500 http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/24/how-is-it.html <p>How is it possible that I’m just now discovering how amazing Swedish Cream is. Wow.</p> https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/24/geared-up-for.html Sat, 24 Feb 2024 10:09:26 -0500 http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/24/geared-up-for.html <p>Geared up for sunrise winter photography.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2024/2e478df2d5.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt="Person bundled in balaclava, beanie with headlamp, and blue puffer jacket standing on rocky lakeshore at cloudy sunrise with tripod nearby."> https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/24/out-early-shooting.html Sat, 24 Feb 2024 08:22:54 -0500 http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/24/out-early-shooting.html <p>Out early shooting the sunrise. Good waves on Lake Superior.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2024/b6721bd9bb.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="Photographers on icy rocky shoreline of Lake Superior at sunrise with waves crashing nearby under cloudy sky"> https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/23/bryan-hansel-getting.html Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:28:52 -0500 http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/23/bryan-hansel-getting.html <p><a href="https://www.bryanhansel.com">Bryan Hansel</a> getting everyone started on our workshop.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2024/c99f894e49.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="Group of photographers with tripods on a rocky shoreline in winter clothing during a photography workshop"> https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/23/morning-coffee-and.html Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:21:36 -0500 http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/23/morning-coffee-and.html <p>Morning coffee and pastry at <a href="https://www.190coffeeandtea.com">190° Coffee and Tea</a>. Early morning snowfall. Heading on to Grand Marais.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2024/4d6e395109.jpg" width="600" height="449" alt="190 Degree Coffee Tea cafe in a red brick building during heavy snowfall, with snow-covered sidewalks and an open sign visible in the window."> https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/23/good-morning-from.html Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:19:25 -0500 http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/23/good-morning-from.html <p>Good morning from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Sundew">Sundew</a> in Duluth, Minnesota.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2024/5759095813.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="USCGC Sundew buoy tender ship docked at a snowy Duluth harbor in a heavy snowstorm with fog and dim light">