Photos Posts

Water-smoothed Rocks at Brighton Beach

Feb 04, 2013 5 Comments

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Mary Amerman of Duluth won the grand prize in Lake Superior Magazine’s 18th annual Lake Superior Photo Contest. Her photo of the water-smoothed rocks on Duluth’s Brighton Beach was one of 1,284 images entered in the contest from 138 different cities, in 18 states, one U.S. Territory (Guam) and Canada.

Duluthian Kenji Ogura won first place in the Artsy/Altered category with a photograph of the weekly regatta. All the winners and finalists are featured in a gallery on lakesuperior.com.


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Wisconsin Point in Winter

Jan 20, 2013 2 Comments


Outdoors, Photos

Wicked North Shore Icicles

Jan 18, 2013 2 Comments

Former Duluthian here, now a couple of hours further up the shore. My coworker (at the Cook County Visitors Bureau) snapped this photo in the Grand Marais harbor earlier this week. Too awesome to not share.

Photo from Grand Marais, MN on Facebook.


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Rice’s Point on an Icy December Day

Dec 27, 2012 5 Comments

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Where in Duluth?

Dec 21, 2012 36 Comments

Time once again for the exciting quiz sensation in which you try to guess where in Duluth a photo was taken.


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Snow Sculpture

Dec 17, 2012 15 Comments

A snow sculpture at the corner of 21st Avenue East and Fourth Street depicts an angel with her arms around weeping children.

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Lake Superior Debris

Dec 02, 2012 6 Comments

My wife and I noticed an unusual amount of debris on the shore Saturday morning — lots of shards of glass, clinkers, ceramic, etc. Why now? Was a shipwreck dredged up?


Outdoors, Photos

Duluth’s 1937 West End Baseball Team

Nov 30, 2012 No Comments

Brian Bécotte of Edgartown, Mass., shared this 1937 photo with PDD on Facebook. His father, John Bécotte is standing, second from the left.

If anyone knows additional names of players on the team or anything about the team in general, well, that’s what blog comments are for.


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Posted: No Wolf Hunting

Nov 02, 2012 8 Comments

Wolf Hunting Prohibited on Fond du Lac Reservation

Passing along this photo from Ivy Vainio; click the image to see it in context.

Fond du Lac Band passed an ordinance banning the wolf hunt a few days ago.

Dan Kraker provided some fairly decent balanced coverage that explains some of the legal and cultural implications of the wolf hunt in this MPR News story.


News and Current Affairs, Photos, Politics

Halloween banners

Oct 15, 2012 No Comments

Got any good Halloween photos? It’s the annual call for Halloween banners on PDD. Remember, not every photo makes a good PDD banner.

Some basic rules:
The image must be 960 pixels wide by 167 pixels high. The Perfect Duluth Day logo will be added by PDD’s art department.
The lower portion of banner photos serve as background to the navigation bar, so crop your image with that in mind. Make sure essential elements are not in the area that will be obscured. Don’t stretch the photo to make it fit the ridiculously horizontal proportions. That always looks poopy, and will probably disqualify the photo from bannerdom.

If all of this is too much to wrap your head around, or you don’t have the right image editing software, e-mail the uncropped photo, and we’ll do our best to crop it so it looks good.

Send them to [email protected].


Art, Photos, R.I.P.

Fond du Lac young people march for kids

Oct 05, 2012 2 Comments

I was on my way into work this morning and I saw some young people from the Take Back Our Rez Facebook group walking along Big Lake Road on Fond du Lac Reservation. That’s like the equivalent of rush hour as it is the main artery to and from Highway 33 and I-35, lots of cars headed up and down the road on the way to work or school.

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Remembering the Duluth Bicycle Tree

Oct 03, 2012 7 Comments

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An old “Where in Duluth?” post reminded me of the “Bicycle Tree” near the College of St. Scholastica. Eight years ago, or longer, a collection of bikes started growing on a tree … or whatever happened. I actually never saw it, I only heard about it. Fortunately, Tony Rogers has a whole gallery of photos from 2004.


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Photog seeking props

Sep 25, 2012 16 Comments

I’m working on a little side project, more or less some product shots. I’m looking to borrow a few items that I haven’t been able to turn up while thrifting which has been mind boggling seeing as how they are pretty common items. Well, for the most part. I think I should only need these for a day, two tops.

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Divine Intervention?

Sep 22, 2012 6 Comments

Whoa. Simonson’s got angels in the outfield.

[Photo from the DNT, on the front online page today (9/22/12). Originally from his campaign announcement day, I believe, but I can’t find that article without paying for it.]


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Help-Portrait

Sep 21, 2012 1 Comment

This is a “call out” to all Duluth and surrounding area photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists. I am trying to organize a Help-Portrait event on Dec. 8 at the American Indian Community Housing Organization in Duluth.

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