Lake Superior: Gitchigami
Featured Work
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Autumn Leaves by Rita Chisholm
This is a watercolor painting that I quite enjoyed doing. I worked in the negative to create the individual leaves. It sure makes you think differently. The Autumn Leaves in the Marathon area are predominately yellow tones with the Moose Maple giving us our red colours. /
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Kama Pt., Nipigon Bay, Ontario by Vickie Emms
Top 2 in a challenge and featured in Lake Superior -Gitchigami – October 29, 2009 Overlooking Lake Superior’s beautiful north shore. Photographed from a regular wayside we stop at, Kama Pt. on Nipigon Bay, Ontario. Rising above Lake Superior high on the rocks is a beautiful overlook of the lake. We never miss stopping to photograph the view. This is taken in September when the fall foliage is at it’s best.
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Fall colours at near camp 81 road on Highway 17 - Ontario by Laura Lea Comeau
from the drive home today ( 10.8.09 ) took an extra hour to get home from Thunderbay to Marathon – because of all of the stopping to take pictures!!
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...atop Brockway Mountain Drive... by lynnesusan
Brockway Mountain Drive is just west of Copper Harbor, Michigan and overlooks Lake Superior on one side and the beautiful landscape on the other. I was in Copper Harbor the last weekend of September, 2009 and the weather was so nice I had to put the top down on my convertible!
Recent Work
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pier by lynnesusan
A pier in Eagle Harbor, Michigan…I love Lake Superior!
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Red House on Howtz by deBoer
Red House in mid-Autumn off Howtz Street in Duluth, MN. Date Taken: 10/18/09 / Exposure: 1/115 sec / Focal Length: 9mm / Aperture: F/3.5 / ISO: 64
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High Falls of the Pigeon River by OwlMountain
Also known as Pigeon Falls, is on the Minnesota/Ontario border, right off of Hwy 61. At 120 feet, it’s the highest waterfall in Minnesota. This was taken from the Canadian side.
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Harbor Lights: View From the Window by AuntieJ
Location: Harbor Lights at Saxon Harbor on Lake Superior; Saxon, Wisconsin I set my camera on the bar and took a snap out the window in front of me. What a view! Saxon Harbor is located in Oronto Bay on the south shore of Lake Superior, near Saxon, WI. There is a county Park with marina, camping, sand beaches and high clay cliffs along the Lake. It is one of the best places on Lake Superior to find concretions, rocks of clay compressed and rolled by the glaciers. A stop at the Harbor Lights tavern for a beer or pop is a must. A lot has been done in recent years to improve the harbor and park. I remember when there were cottages along the beach and up on the cliffs, on the north side of the road. With the soil being clay, shore line is lost with every storm. The cottages were hanging over the edges; you could see the pluming sticking out of the cliff. I was always terrified to walk down the beach, lest a cottage finally give way and plunge down on top of me. Pity the poor saps who watched their property disappear into Lake Superior. Harbor Lights tavern has been relocated several times in the past. Historically, from 1808-30, Saxon Harbor was the site of a fur trading post by John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company and is near the beginning of the Native American/French Canadian voyagers trade route known as the Flambeau Trail, a 45 mile/120 pause portage over very rough terrain from LaPointe on Madeline Island (Apostle Islands) to Long Lake in southern Iron County, where they could then canoe to the Chippewa village in Lac du Flambeau.
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Harbor Lights #1 by AuntieJ
Location: Saxon Harbor on Lake Superior; Saxon, Wisconsin The sign at Harbor Lights. Saxon Harbor is located in Oronto Bay on the south shore of Lake Superior, near Saxon, WI. There is a county Park with marina, camping, sand beaches and high clay cliffs along the Lake. It is one of the best places on Lake Superior to find concretions, rocks of clay compressed and rolled by the glaciers. A stop at the Harbor Lights tavern for a beer or pop is a must. A lot has been done in recent years to improve the harbor and park. I remember when there were cottages along the beach and up on the cliffs, on the north side of the road. With the soil being clay, shore line is lost with every storm. The cottages were hanging over the edges; you could see the pluming sticking out of the cliff. I was always terrified to walk down the beach, lest a cottage finally give way and plunge down on top of me. Pity the poor saps who watched their property disappear into Lake Superior. Harbor Lights tavern has been relocated several times in the past. Historically, from 1808-30, Saxon Harbor was the site of a fur trading post by John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company and is near the beginning of the Native American/French Canadian voyagers trade route known as the Flambeau Trail, a 45 mile/120 pause portage over very rough terrain from LaPointe on Madeline Island (Apostle Islands) to Long Lake in southern Iron County, where they could then canoe to the Chippewa village in Lac du Flambeau.
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Gulls In A Row by AuntieJ
Cropped Location: Saxon Harbor on Lake Superior; Saxon, Wisconsin Gulls on the breakwater waiting for the fishing boats (and a snack) to come in. Saxon Harbor is located in Oronto Bay on the south shore of Lake Superior, near Saxon, WI. There is a county Park with marina, camping, sand beaches and high clay cliffs along the Lake. It is one of the best places on Lake Superior to find concretions, rocks of clay compressed and rolled by the glaciers. A stop at the Harbor Lights tavern for a beer or pop is a must. A lot has been done in recent years to improve the harbor and park. I remember when there were cottages along the beach and up on the cliffs, on the north side of the road. With the soil being clay, shore line is lost with every storm. The cottages were hanging over the edges; you could see the pluming sticking out of the cliff. I was always terrified to walk down the beach, lest a cottage finally give way and plunge down on top of me. Pity the poor saps who watched their property disappear into Lake Superior. Harbor Lights tavern has been relocated several times in the past. Historically, from 1808-30, Saxon Harbor was the site of a fur trading post by John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company and is near the beginning of the Native American/French Canadian voyagers trade route known as the Flambeau Trail, a 45 mile/120 pause portage over very rough terrain from LaPointe on Madeline Island (Apostle Islands) to Long Lake in southern Iron County, where they could then canoe to the Chippewa village in Lac du Flambeau.
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View from Split Rock Light house - Minnesota by Laura Lea Comeau
on Lake Superior with an incredible view of the lake from high on top the rock
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Lions Head by Michael Treloar
Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota, USA. / Lake Superior on a windy day, with huge waves. / Hole in the rock. That can nt be seen, because of the 15ft wave in front of it. / Nikon D200 / I took a lot of shots this day, narrowed it down to just 4. It was mesmerizing to watch. I could of sat here for hours, but I wanted to see what the rest of the coast (sorry lake shore) looked like. / I like this one the best. /
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Lake Movement, Lake Superior. by Michael Treloar
Cascade River State Park, Lake Superior, Minnesota, USA. / Neutral Density Filter used to create the movement in the water.
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Summer's Over by Kate Purdy
All the sailboats coming in for dry dock on Lake Superior in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Shot with natural light in during AppleFest at the Bayfield Marina.
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lighthouse in copper harbor, michigan by lynnesusan
The only way to this lighthouse is by boat
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Au Sable Lighthouse 2 by JimGuy
Lighthouse on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA, on the South Shore of Lake Superior, on Pictured Rocks National Lake Shore. Nikon D300, Nikor 18-200 vr
About This Group
FEATURES: October Challenge, Autumn Splendor
Wild beauty. Waterfalls tumbling fast and furious through a labyrinth of gorges. Rocky coastline. Sandy shores. Clay cliffs. Stone beaches. Thick forest. Delicate flowers. Changing colors. Changing moods. Four legged creatures. Two legged creatures. Shoreline ripped from the earth with every violent autumn storm. Water so cold it doesn’t give up its dead. A lake as vast as an ocean. This is Gitchigami, Lake Superior.
The Anishinaabe, also known as the Ojibwe or Chippewa People (North American Indians), have inhabited the Lake Superior region for over five hundred years. They gave the lake the name Gitchigami, meaning big or great water. The first French explorers approaching this great inland sea by way of the Ottawa River and Lake Huron in the mid-1600s named their discovery le lac superieur. Properly translated, the expression means “Upper Lake,” that is, the lake above Lake Huron.
Lake Superior was born of the retreating glaciers about 10,000 years ago, making it one of Earth’s newest major features. It is the world’s largest lake by surface area, third largest by volume and holds 10% of all fresh water on earth. It is able to hold all the other Great Lakes plus three additional Lake Eries and would flood all of North and South America by a depth of one foot/.3 meter. Lake Superior graces the shorelines of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, U.S.A and Ontario, Canada; 350 miles/563.3k from west to east, and 160 miles/257.5k north to south. 2,730 miles/4393.5k of coastline would stretch from Duluth, Minnesota to the Bahamas Islands if straightened. It is home to wildlife, migrating birds, rare flora, lake effect snow, violent November storms, lumbering, mining, fishing, shipping, small isolated towns and native and immigrant people of hearty stock.
Anyone who spends much time on this greatest of the Great Lakes comes to love it. Lake Superior region can be a place of serenity and turn in a second to Mother Nature’s wildest fury. It is a different world. It is small town. It is wildly free. It never leaves your soul.
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