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05/02/2020 09:19AM  
I shot this at sunrise from a canoe in early June, 1996. 6 frames of film composited in PhotoShop.

 
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tumblehome
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05/02/2020 07:49PM  
Absolutely beautiful.

Quick story about those pictographs.

For several years I had the famous painting by Francis Lee Jacques hanging in my house. I had never seen the pictographs in person nor was I aware of their precise location.

Go forward several more years and I’m on Crooked Lake and come around the bend and before I even saw them, I had just realized I was at the same spot that I had gazed at for many years of the pictographs. It was amazing!

Tom
05/02/2020 07:56PM  
Tom--I love that painting, and all of Jacques work.

"Picture Rock at Crooked Lake" aka "The Return of the Voyageurs", Francis Lee Jaques, 1947.



schweady
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05/02/2020 08:22PM  
Springer2, that is gorgeous! I wanted to attempt a similar pano of the Lac La Croix pictos last time we were there, but time and weather intervened.

I don't suppose you've done a similar one of those at LLC...?
05/02/2020 08:31PM  
schweady: I don't suppose you've done a similar one of those at LLC...?"

No--I'll put that on my bucket list.
schweady
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05/02/2020 08:35PM  
Springer2: "
schweady: I don't suppose you've done a similar one of those at LLC...? "

No--I'll put that on my bucket list."

Excellent. I've occasionally tried to catalog my random close-up shots at LLC a bit better, including matching them up with the 3-bulletin set of brochures I bought from Northwoods Memories. But I still kick myself for not getting a decent clean pano from a distance. The pics in the Northwoods brochures have lots of overlying markings and the owner doesn't want to sent me any of his clean digital photos. Hey, I get that...
bronxpaddler
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05/02/2020 10:21PM  
I had a similar moment.

I also love the artwork and style of Francis Lee Jaques, having seen his work in the Sigurd Olson books and also in the "childrens" books he co-authored with his wife. Only later did I find out that the couple lived in New York for a number of years (I believe around twenty-five) while Jaques was employed at the American Museum of Natural History, which is only a few blocks away from where I grew up. He painted the backgrounds in many of the large (full scale) dioramas that feature wildlife and ecosystems from around the world. These are located primarily in the oldest, main, sections of the museum, near the museum's main entrance on Central Park West.

The museum was one of my favorite places in the world, and those dioramas were pure magic for me. The entrance to the museum is also a national monument in memory of Theodore Roosevelt, with massive engravings around the plaza that described him (words like NATURALIST, EXPLORER, CONSERVATIONIST, etc.). Point is this: the museum (and Jaques' paintings) made a lasting impression on me. But I discovered the connection with Jaques only later. PS - I love the Boundary Waters.
 
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