A lone hiker stands atop a rocky outcrop overlooking the rugged landscape of Antelope Island and the hazy waters of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

Great Lakes Freighter in Fog

A Great Lakes freighter steams northeast from Duluth Harbor on a foggy morning

Field Notes:

A Great Lakes freighter moves along the North Shore of Minnesota. Its presence reduced to near silhouette in the early morning fog on Lake Superior. In the hush between water and sky, a low hum and trailing plume whisper of the power that moves steel and industry across these cold waters.

just another shape
dissolving into the day



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