By Scott Shephard

I had never heard of Jay Cooke State Park or of the Saint Louis River until we booked a campsite there for our recent venture into northern Minnesota. It turns out that the Saint Louis River is the largest tributary to Lake Superior and that Jay Cooke State Park is one of the most visited parks in Minnesota. How about that, then!? (I’m learning to talk Minnesotan.)

I got up before sunrise to try to get a good photo or two of the rapids that are in the park but as I walked on to the famous swinging bridge, I found the ancient rocks, eroded over millenium, much more interesting. And so I took a photo or two. The light was very soft and I like how it reflects off of both the basalt and the steaming water. The scene you see here might look pretty much how it looked 2000 years ago.

This picture reminds me that the photos I go looking for and “take” are rarely as interesting as the photos that find me.

Canon R5 f/5.0 1/50 sec ISO 200