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Stormy Duluth

While driving to pick up ice cream tonight, I noticed some crazy looking clouds over Lake Superior.  I decided to run back home and get my complete assortment of cameras and lenses and capture the developing weather.  It appears most of the bad weather will stay south of Duluth, but it did make me wonder...

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Valerie & Stephan :: Two Harbors, MN Wedding Photography

When it comes to outdoor weddings, you always pray as a wedding photographer that you aren't going to wake up and see a weather map like the one below.  Sometimes those prayers go unanswered. That's exactly what happened on Valerie and Stephan's wedding day.  When I rolled out of bed and saw that ominous radar...

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Here today, gone tomorrow

This has been a weird winter in Duluth.  For a city that welcomed me with 45 inches of snow in the first two weeks and temperatures plummeting to near 50 below on several occasions, this winter has been exceptionally mild.  There have been a couple snowstorms, but nothing major, which makes Derek sad.  However, the...

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Sea Smoke :: Duluth, MN

When the temperature in Duluth gets insanely cold, sea smoke rises from Lake Superior and shrouds the shoreline and anything out in the water in an eerie mist.  On a simpler level, it's basically fog formed when very cold air moves over warmer water.  The same principle leads to lake-effect snow. I have no idea...

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