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By Paul Lundgren on Jan 20, 2013 in Outdoors, Photos | 2 Comments
By Pretty far north on Jan 18, 2013 in Outdoors, Photos | 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
By Paul Lundgren on Dec 27, 2012 in Outdoors, Photos | 5 Comments
Click on any of the images to see them full size.
By Paul Lundgren on Dec 21, 2012 in Photos, Where in Duluth? | 36 Comments
By ckward on Dec 17, 2012 in Photos, Sappy Stuff | 16 Comments
A snow sculpture at the corner of 21st Avenue East and Fourth Street depicts an angel with her arms around weeping children. I was so moved that I had to pull over. Another bystander said this house does a snow sculpture every year but not usually one that makes so many want to stop and take a picture.
By quirtep on Dec 2, 2012 in Outdoors, Photos | 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?
By Paul Lundgren on Nov 30, 2012 in History, Photos, Sports | 0 Comments
By baci on Nov 17, 2012 in Outdoors, Photos | 4 Comments
By JP Rennquist on Nov 2, 2012 in Current Events, Photos, Politics | 8 Comments
Passing along this photo from Ivy Vainio (click the image to see it in context).
Fond du Lac Band passed this ordinance banning the wolf hunt a few days ago (ordinance pdf).
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.
By brian on Oct 15, 2012 in Art, Creepy Stuff, Photos, R.I.P. | 0 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 banners@perfectduluthday.com.
By JP Rennquist on Oct 5, 2012 in Current Events, Photos | 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.
I snapped a few photos. They carried signs saying “Love Your Self, Love Your Community” and “For Our Children.”
One of the marchers, “Chubbs” Jarvis Paro, showed me this bloody syringe that they found on their march.
Ogichidaa is one way of saying “Warrior” in Anishinaabemowin. I might not be qualified to speak, but I would say this is a good example of ogichidaa, standing up for children and the future.
By Paul Lundgren on Oct 3, 2012 in Art, History, Photos, Weird Stuff | 7 Comments
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 starting 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.
By NateL on Sep 25, 2012 in Art, Geeky, Help Wanted, Photos, Weird Stuff | 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. (more…)
By jessige on Sep 22, 2012 in Photos, Politics | 6 Comments
By kiwidreams on Sep 21, 2012 in Art, Events, Photos | 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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By Paul Lundgren on Sep 17, 2012 in Outdoors, Photos | 3 Comments
By Paul Lundgren on Sep 4, 2012 in History, Photos, R.I.P., Recommendations | 0 Comments
Out in Bayfield County Wisconsin is the small town of Bell (within which is the more well-known unincorporated place of Cornucopia). Two little secret spots in Bell are the old 23-grave cemetery (photos above) and the Lost Creek Falls Trail (photos of that to come in a future post).
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By David Cowardin on Aug 26, 2012 in Outdoors, Photos | 3 Comments
Manitou, referring to spirit beings in Algonquian groups of Native Americans, is also the name of a river along Minnesota’s north shore. The Manitou River runs through George Crosby Manitou State Park where I decided to camp alone Saturday night.
By Jim Richardson on Aug 23, 2012 in Art, Outdoors, Photos | 0 Comments