12th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
North Shore Lake Superior Sunrise

There are few places where light and water color each other as they do with sunrises over Lake Superior as seen from Minnesota's North Shore. Nearly ever morning for a year that I lived very near to the rocky beach of Lake Superior in Duluth, MN, I would walk down with a cup of coffee and my camera and watch the sun rise. With the eagles and seagulls, foxes and waking little city built on a hill a few miles to the south, it was an extraordinary moment each time the sun circled above the cold and clear water horizon.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 06.2014
Date Uploaded: 11.2014
Photo Location: Duluth, Minnesota, United States of America
Camera: DSLR-A230
Copyright: © Ian Kimmer