Grand Marais, Minnesota.

Now see these:

• Course en haut talons rue de Lappe from Paris Cool
• spring thaw from Under the Amber Moon
• fragments from bluechameleon

Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.

O, well for the fisherman’s boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play!
O, well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.

Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Grand Marais, Minnesota.

Now see these:

• Thistle from Feldauge
• father and son walk on the railway from BOXMAN fotologue
• Le feu de vos ?mes from polom.org
• music from PROVOKE

Artists’ Point, Grand Marais.

Now see these:

• Red Padlock from The Plastic Lens
• Suspendu from BM photoblog
• rain, wheels and a friend from franx
• bittersweetsluggishness from 18mm

Grand Marais Harbor.

Now see these:

• Man on the moon from Aperture First
• Into the Weekend from a view from the 6oh lens
• untitled from maditi

Artists’ Point, Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Superior.

I’m working on a facelift for this site; I haven’t really touched it since WordPress 1.5–2.6 is the current version–and the old theme had some limitations. I got a nice note from Phil Bebbington at terrorkitten, in response to a comment on one of his pictures, which noted that this site is less than navigable, and that was enough for me to make a change.

Right now, I’m fiddling with the Click! theme from Taly; it’s a very simple, clean theme, without a lot of bells and whistles; I use the more feature-rich Tarski theme for a couple of other projects, like Daily Dickinson, but I like the flexibility that a simple theme gives me for this site. There are still some bugs to squash and bolts to tighten –I’m having trouble with the Lightbox script– but so far, so good. If something doesn’t work for you, leave a comment!

Now see these:

• 383 from Edmund Leveckis
• Misty Morning from Black & White Dreaming
• untitled from BLOW-UP
• Nepali Girl from photographic visions

Artists’ Point, Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Superior. Here‘s what the Graflex saw.

Now see these:

• Rouge from duboaa.net
• Lammikon kuningatar from luotokuva
• around to jazz from your waitress
• Petit m?nage rue de la Coll?giale from Paris Cool
• Born Again from Out of Contxt
• Leon Lewandowski from bighappyfunhouse
• Luck from HELLO
• Double Rainbow, Island Beach from A Walk Through Durham County
• Tombstone Gunslinger from Electrolite

Artists’ Point, Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Superior. Here‘s what the Graflex saw.

Now see these:

• Somewhere?summer from Feldauge
• Selwick Bay lighthouse from milou
• umbrella moves from BOXMAN
• The Homecoming from 3 a.m. from Kyoto
• shallow grays from rebecca

Artists’ Point, Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Superior.

Artists’ Point, Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Superior.

With favoring winds, o’er sunlit seas,
We sailed for the Hesperides,
The land where golden apples grow;
But that, ah! that was long ago.

How far, since then, the ocean streams
Have swept us from that land of dreams,
That land of fiction and of truth,
The lost Atlantis of our youth!

Whither, ah, whither? Are not these
The tempest-haunted Orcades,
Where sea-gulls scream, and breakers roar,
And wreck and sea-weed line the shore?

Ultima Thule! Utmost Isle!
Here in thy harbors for a while
We lower our sails; a while we rest
From the unending, endless quest.

Ultima Thule: Dedication to G. W. G. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Artists’ Point, Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Superior.

Every place I touch you
changes shape. Shore, lie down–
undo. I’ll fill your thirsty bones with blue.
I’ll flood your every cave and we’ll be one.

Song of the Sea to the Shore by Robert Fanning

Artists’ Point, Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Superior.

Unraveling velvet, wave after wave, driven
by wind, unwinding by storm, by gravity thrown –
however, heaving to reach you, to find you, I’ve striven
undulant, erosive, blown —

Song of the Sea to the Shore by Robert Fanning

Artists’ Point, Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Superior.

Grand Marais, MN.

At the seawall on Artists’ Point, Grand Marais, MN. You can’t tell from these pinhole pictures, but the inland sea of Lake Superior was pretty violent: the waves pounding these rocks were quite impressive. But the pinhole, intrepid and unflappable, sees only the gentle peace of the basalt formations: zen master in a wooden box.

Artists’ Point, Grand Marais, MN.

Entrance to the Grand Marais harbor, as seen from the seawall by Artists’ Point. The odd texture of this photo was caused by a sticky slide on the film holder: I had to jam the slide shut, which caused some wrinkling.