Location (approx.): 46.957°N, -84.660°W (map) Alt: ???.?m
	Photo Date: 25 May, 2009
	ISO: 100
	Aperture/Shutter: F/14, 1/125"
	Focal Length: 14mm
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
Category: Landscape / Cityscape Pictures

Pancake Bay, Ontario

Living life on the North Eastern shore of the greatest of Great Lakes. Superior certainly earns it's name well, but my heart still belongs to Huron. Camped here for a bit at the banks of a beautiful little stream that met Lake Superior with a tiy waterfall. Picturesque doesn't quite cover it.
Given that there was a blizzard up here only a week before, the Provincial Park was more or less empty ... save for a few trailer folk that seemed to be kicking out their signs to spend the summer here.

There is nothing quite like watching the sunset on Superior. When the sun sets it turns the distant horizon into a thin red line and the water lights up with rose and sparkle. By the time the starts have come out, you realize that all the meaningless tripe we deal with day in and day out, all our issues, all our problems, don't mean squat in the grand scheme of the universe and we're just a tiny dot out on one of the edges.
Very grounding.

If you feel life is starting to get beyond you, I'd recommend heading up here to let it stop for a few days and learn the lessons and wisdom of Gichigami ... assuming you don't find it crazy to talk to the Big Waters.
Hell, I'll even drive you there!

Location: 46.199948°N, -82.455371°W (map) Alt: 149.7m
	Photo Date: 13 April, 2009
	ISO: 100
	Aperture/Shutter: F/8, 1/160"
	Focal Length: 14mm
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
Category: Landscape / Cityscape Pictures

Aird Bay, Ontario

Spring has only barely kissed the Northern shores of the Huron. Bare inches separate the shore from the ice packs here.

Taken near Serpent River; Aird Bay on the North Channel.

Location: 10.618545°N, -85.108000°W Alt: 391.7m
	Photo Date: 30 May, 2008
	ISO: 100
	Aperture/Shutter: F/7.1, 1/160"
	Focal Length: 40mm
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
Category: Guanacaste, Costa Rica - 2008

Volcàn Miravalles. Guanacaste, Costa Rica

The peak of Volcàn Miravalles rises from the feral sugar cane cluttered at it's feet, while the Cordillera de Guanacaste/Cordillera de Tilarán (Guanacaste/Tilarán Mountain Range) continues it stretch to the North.
A jagged masterpiece concealing the horizon and completing this section of the Pacific "Ring of Fire".

Location: 10.713445°N, -85.177266°W Alt: 760.6m
	Photo Date: 27 May, 2008
	ISO: 100
	Aperture/Shutter: F/7.1, 1/50"
	Focal Length: 14mm
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
Category: Guanacaste, Costa Rica - 2008

Volcàn Miravalles. Guanacaste, Costa Rica

The water is murky from the minerals.

No, really ... I had nothing to do with that ... it looked like that when I got here ... I swear ...

Location: 47.689775°N, -80.276821°W ; Alt: 254.3m
	Photo Date: 29 July, 2008
	ISO: 100
	Aperture/Shutter: F/8, 1/140"
	Focal Length: 14mm
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
Category: Landscapes / Cityscapes

Elk Lake, Ontario

As the sun begins to creap over the well eroded mountains of the Canadian shield, clouds begin to lift off the untainted hillside forests.

Location: 47.690441°N, -80.277563°W ; Alt: 244.5m
	Photo Date: 29 July, 2008
	ISO: 100
	Aperture/Shutter: F/7.1, 1/50"
	Focal Length: 14mm
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
Category: Landscapes / Cityscapes

Elk Lake, Ontario

I miss the North.
Clear skies, clean air, lush forests ... and a thick dark cloud of mosquitos.
It's remote solitude was the perfect place to relax and be at peace with one's self.
This, for example, is what I woke up to every morning at dawn (shot at 06:07 EST). I invite you to enlarge and stare into it for a while to let your stress drift off with the clouds.
Almost the entire west bank of Elk Lake is presently unoccupied (far shore on left), so it really is an entire, uninterrupted view.
And what a view!
No houses, no cottages. Just critters and bugs.
An expansive view of what Canada looks like under all that concrete and wire. Amazing to find areas like this still largely uninhabited, yet close enough to a highway that you won't run out of gas during the round trip!

Location: 10.712865°N, -85.177265°W ; Alt: 760.6m
	Photo Date: 27 May, 2008
	ISO: 100
	Aperture/Shutter: F/6.3, 1/60"
	Focal Length: 14mm
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
Category: Guanacaste, Costa Rica - 2008

Volcàn Miravalles. Guanacaste, Costa Rica

More steamy, volcanic goodness ...