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09/10/2013 08:36PM
It is time to start the September 2013 Photo Contest.
First an important note. If you see that you have won the contest or a prize in the contest, please email your address and choice of hat, shirt, or bandanna to me.
The theme for this month's contest is "The Art of Portaging". Lets your favorite photo you have taken in canoe country.
Monthly Category: The Art of Portaging
Prize: BWCA Hat, Shirt or Bandanna.
Winner will receive an additional prize of leather work from Dicecupmaker with the bwca.com flying moose on it. Thank you Dicecupmaker!
Thanks to Cooke Custom Sewing (CSS) for sponsoring the year end prize!
Remember 1 entry per person please. This helps us vote accurately.
Rules:
- You must be signed in as a member with a valid email address in your profile to enter (or win).
- You can only enter one photo per monthly contest. You can enter the same photo if it did not win in a previous month.
- You must be the photographer of the photo and have the rights to post it.
- Photos are entered in the contest by making a reply posting to this message and using the "Add a photo to this message" link during composition. This will allow you to upload a photo from your computer to the contest or allow you to select a photo which you have already loaded into your photo gallery on this site. If you want to enter your photo in another way, please contact us.
- Please describe in the message the location of the photo.
- Judging will be done by the www.bwca.com staff and moderators.
- A member may win once per year.
- Photos must be posted to this thread by 11:59pm on Sept 30th.
- Photos must be in jpg (jpeg) format and uploaded to the site.
Thank you for participating!
Adam
P20130901
First an important note. If you see that you have won the contest or a prize in the contest, please email your address and choice of hat, shirt, or bandanna to me.
The theme for this month's contest is "The Art of Portaging". Lets your favorite photo you have taken in canoe country.
Monthly Category: The Art of Portaging
Prize: BWCA Hat, Shirt or Bandanna.
Winner will receive an additional prize of leather work from Dicecupmaker with the bwca.com flying moose on it. Thank you Dicecupmaker!
Thanks to Cooke Custom Sewing (CSS) for sponsoring the year end prize!
Remember 1 entry per person please. This helps us vote accurately.
Rules:
- You must be signed in as a member with a valid email address in your profile to enter (or win).
- You can only enter one photo per monthly contest. You can enter the same photo if it did not win in a previous month.
- You must be the photographer of the photo and have the rights to post it.
- Photos are entered in the contest by making a reply posting to this message and using the "Add a photo to this message" link during composition. This will allow you to upload a photo from your computer to the contest or allow you to select a photo which you have already loaded into your photo gallery on this site. If you want to enter your photo in another way, please contact us.
- Please describe in the message the location of the photo.
- Judging will be done by the www.bwca.com staff and moderators.
- A member may win once per year.
- Photos must be posted to this thread by 11:59pm on Sept 30th.
- Photos must be in jpg (jpeg) format and uploaded to the site.
Thank you for participating!
Adam
P20130901
09/10/2013 11:48PM
Joy is a great teacher, but so is dispair. Wonder is a great teacher, but so is confusion. Hope is a great teacher, but so is disillusionment. And life is a great teacher, but so is death. To deny yourself any of those in any aspect is not experiencing life totally.
09/11/2013 09:31PM
quote cowdoc: "COWDOC, E-mail me when you get a chance. Mitchquote kanoes: "a portage on my first real solo, frost river loop. i dont remember what portage it was. "
Looks like Gordon into Unload...to Frost"
Joy is a great teacher, but so is dispair. Wonder is a great teacher, but so is confusion. Hope is a great teacher, but so is disillusionment. And life is a great teacher, but so is death. To deny yourself any of those in any aspect is not experiencing life totally.
09/15/2013 07:00PM
Deleted by poster. I just realized that the photo I chose was actually snapped by a friend. I'll find another.
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
09/15/2013 10:50PM
quote arctic: "quote mooseplums: "Birth of a portage monkey~ my son Jeremiah "
The really cool thing about this photo is the pack-basket, an eastern (Maine) tradition, rarely seen in the Quetico-Superior."
I used to carry snacks, lunches, water filter, etc in it, and in camp I used it to gather fire wood.
When he was a toddler, he used to ride in the basket on my back, when we went on hikes...I still have the basket, but it's retired from canoe tripping
"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"
09/25/2013 05:29AM
Joy is a great teacher, but so is dispair. Wonder is a great teacher, but so is confusion. Hope is a great teacher, but so is disillusionment. And life is a great teacher, but so is death. To deny yourself any of those in any aspect is not experiencing life totally.
09/25/2013 04:03PM
Kanoes contemplating the next move on a bushwhack portage in the heart of the Quetico. June, 2013.
We had just climbed a steep ridge at the start of this bushwhack and stacked the canoes along the narrow trail we found while we brought the rest of the gear to the top.
And Suncatcher's pic of the same spot.
We had just climbed a steep ridge at the start of this bushwhack and stacked the canoes along the narrow trail we found while we brought the rest of the gear to the top.
And Suncatcher's pic of the same spot.
There is a light and it never goes out. Morrissey
09/26/2013 10:15AM
This is not the best photo of a portaging scene I have ever taken, but it is by far my very favorite, perhaps because I have so few photos of Spartan1 smiling. (Albeit an embarrassed smile. LOL!)
We were at the end of the portage from Allen to Horseshoe (September 30, 2004, day 9 of 10) and he had climbed over the big log with his largest, heaviest pack on his back. He lost his balance and toppled back onto the ground, landing on his tush just as you see him. I happened to have completed the portage and was standing there photographing the lake, so I just turned and snapped the photo before he could object. I'm sure it isn't his favorite photo, but I have always liked it.
We were at the end of the portage from Allen to Horseshoe (September 30, 2004, day 9 of 10) and he had climbed over the big log with his largest, heaviest pack on his back. He lost his balance and toppled back onto the ground, landing on his tush just as you see him. I happened to have completed the portage and was standing there photographing the lake, so I just turned and snapped the photo before he could object. I'm sure it isn't his favorite photo, but I have always liked it.
09/28/2013 03:57PM
quote jwartman59: " i find it tacky to take photos of people portaging. you should be helping until the last person is finished. this is my son carrying the 20' MN 3 on a very crappy unmaintained portage on the beartrap river. lots of cursing."
In 1992 I took my 16 year old brother to Quetico for his first (and only) trip. I distinctly remember having him walk back down a steep 15 foot section of trail so I could get the picture from the top of the hill of him portaging with his pack. He was not happy to say the least. :)
"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --- George Bernard Shaw
09/29/2013 10:38PM
August 2012 portage from Little Sag to Virgin Lake
on a beautiful, but windy day, up a bit of a rocky hill
:-)
on a beautiful, but windy day, up a bit of a rocky hill
:-)
All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff. Carl Sagan
10/03/2013 02:55PM
quote Kiporby: "Suncatcher took this photo of me on the same day. He should post this one for the contest! Haha.
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"Under the darkened underpass, I thought 'Oh God, my chance has come at last,' and then a strange fear hit me and I just couldn't ask."
I''m obsessed with Morrissey. I'm happy you have his quote :D
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