Roger Nordstrom Photo

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Cold Lake Superior Winter Morning

Last weekend I 'needed' to get back to the North Shore so I went and visited my friends Travis and Jessica. It turned out to be a cold cold weekend and this being my first outdoor adventure in cold cold Minnesota I very much over dressed, but that is a different subject. When the temps get so cold, -10 to -15, the already cold Lake Superior becomes a warm spot and steam rises. It creates an eerie effect as it undulated across the surface of the water. I was playing with time lapse this weekend and made this time lapse from the Hwy 61, Mt Josephine overlook of the Susie Islands. The wind was blowing rather briskly on this cold cold morning.

Roger
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Swan Viewing Park

Since I was off from work today I decided to head over to the Swan Viewing Park in Monticello, MN. Each year over 1,000 Trumpeter Swans, along with Canada Geese and an assortment of duck, gather along the Mississippi River for a daily meal of corn. What started as a homeowner, Sheila Lawrence, winter feeding some ducks and geese, a few decades ago, turned into a Trumpeter Swan spectacle attracting people, especially photographers, from around the nation.

Usually feeding time is around 10 am and it was a little after 11 so I wasn't expecting much. But the sounds coming from the water indicated alot of activity. Sure enough it was feeding time and the swans were swarming the feeding buckets. Swans do not normally congregate but when there is food for the taking they tolerate each other. One of the side shows is when two families face off. They'll squawk, bob their heads, ruffle their their feathers before one family charges the other then it's all over.

Roger

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Monday, November 25, 2013

Time - Water - Earth, The Complete Project

Time ∙ Water ∙ Earth

“....the distinction between the past, the present

and the future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”

Albert Einstein

Time becomes evident through motion.

Sunrise, sunset, the changing seasons,

the movement of the celestial bodies,

being born, growing old, reclamation.

All are indicative of continuous change.

Millennia will pass.

Water will course, freeze, evaporate and move.

Earth will shift, become supple, shape herself and yield to change.

These intimate black and white images of frozen water and desert sand

show us the beauty of sameness in such opposites.

They help us to see more clearly how the earth holds

the memory of change allowing us to bear witness to our past

and the prepossessing harshness that is the cycle of time made visible.

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Hollow Rock, Minnesota Feb 2013 ----- Head of Sinbad Petroglyphs, Utah Mar 2013	Artist Point, Minnesota Feb 2013 ----- Bisti Wilderness, New Mexico Mar 2013


Tettagouche State Park, Minnesota Feb 2011 ----- Wahweap Hoodoos, Utah Dec 2011	Tettagouche State Park, Minnesota Feb 2011 ----- Goblin Valley, Utah Dec 2009

Hollow Rock, Minnesota
Feb 2013
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Antelope Canyon, Arizona
Dec 2009


Artist Point, Minnesota Feb 2013 ----- Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument, Utah Mar 2013	Artist Point, Minnesota Feb 2013 ----- Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument, Utah Mar 2013


Hollow Rock, Minnesota Feb 2012 ----- Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument, Utah Mar 2013	Tettagouche State Park, Minnesota Feb 2011 ----- Antelope Canyon, Arizona Dec 2011

Tettagouche State Park, Minnesota
Feb 2011
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The Wave, Arizona Dec, 2011


Grand Portage, Minnesota Jan 2009 ----- Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Utah Apr 2012	Stoney Point, Minnesota Feb 2009 ----- Bisti Wilderness, New Mexico Apr 2012


Hollow Rock, Minnesota Feb 2009 Zebra Canyon, Utah Mar 2013	Hollow Rock, Minnesota Feb 2013 Wahweap Hoodoos, Utah Dec 2011


Gooseberry Falls State Park, Minnesota Feb 2013 Wahweap Hoodoos, Utah Dec 2011	Artist Point, Minnesota Feb 2013 Wahweap Hoodoos, Utah Dec 2011


Artist Point, Minnesota Feb 2013 Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument, Utah Mar 2013	Hollow Rock, Minnesota Feb 2009 Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument, Utah Mar 2013