Bryan Hansel Photography

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  • Minnesota Northern Lights over the Pigeon River

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    Over the past 17 days, I’ve canoed about 250 or so miles from Crane Lake to Lake Superior via the Border Route in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. I joined Amy and Dave Freeman of Wilderness Classroom. They been out all summer and paddled over 2,300 miles from the Great Slave Lake to Superior.…

  • Minnesota Northern Lights

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    The Minnesota northern lights were out tonight, so we drove up the Gunflint looking for a good location to view them. It turned out that Northern Lights Lake provided the best view. We watched them dance above our heads for hours. For about a half hour, they were so bright that the almost full moon…

  • Rosebush Creek Waterfalls on Minnesota’s North Shore

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    This small creek near Cutface Creek rarely runs in the summer, so if you want to photograph it, you must get there in the spring. This is the biggest waterfall on the creek. It’s about 8 feet high. The USGS topo maps call this Rosebush Creek, but long-time Grand Marais and north shore residents call…

  • Northern Lights over Northern Lights Lake

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    Northern Lights over Northern Lights Lake, originally uploaded by Bryan Hansel. On March 10, 2011, a coronal mass ejection hit Earth and sparked northern lights that reached as far south as Madison, Wis. Here’s the northern lights dance over Northern Lights Lake. Grand Marais, MN. (110311-120) This was a really cool event. About 11pm, I…

  • Compass and Navigation Skill Workshop

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    Calm, originally uploaded by Bryan Hansel. Compass and Navigation Skill Workshop Min: 4 Max: 20 Price: $10 Date: Monday, November 8th Time: 6:30 – 8:00 Location: Cook County Community Education Don’t get lost in the woods. When you learn navigation, you’ll know where you are and where you have been and how to find the…

  • Nusfjord Norway Pano

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    Nusfjord Norway Pano, originally uploaded by Bryan Hansel. Stitched Panorama of 17 images shot from a hand-held Canon G9. I used Autopano Pro with just a little tweaking the control points to fix a broken waterline on the fjord’s inlet. Taken in 2008 in Nusfjord, Norway.

  • Night Photography Workshop

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    Learn to photograph at night. Join photographer Bryan Hansel, www.bryanhansel.com, for a night of shooting in the dark. After a 45 minute slideshow/discussion, we’ll head to the Coast Guard parking lot and photograph Grand Marais as and after the sun sets. Learn about ISO and noise, long exposures, and setting the correct white balance to…

  • Lutsen Ice Caves

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    With Lake Superior solid, it’s been so-so to walk along the shore on the ice. Taking advantage of the frozen lake, I wandered down to the Lutsen sea caves and crawled back into one of the ice caves just at sunset to get this picture.

  • Johnson Falls in the BWCA

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    Johnson Falls flow into Pine Lake. This is a short trip into the BWCA, but could be accomplished during a longer day trip. Very worthwhile! And I thought the falls at the Stairway Portage were the best in the BWCA. Not so, Johnson Falls has it.

  • Lake Nipigon Kayaking

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    Lake Nipigon is a four hour drive from Grand Marais. This four hours puts it an equal distance away from me as the Apostle Islands, so it becomes a hard call on which way to drive for a sea kayaking trip. I’ve put some thought into this now and have come to the conclusion that…