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adam

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11/12/2010 03:37PM

It is time to start the November 2010 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 "Best of the Best".

Monthly Category: Great Photos from the Boundary Waters/Quetico

Prize: BWCA Hat, Shirt or Bandanna.

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 Nov. 30th.
- Photos must be in jpg (jpeg) format and uploaded to the site.

Contact me if you have something in a different format or are having problems uploading to the site.

Thank you for participating!

Adam

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bapabear

11/12/2010 06:16PM

How do you pick one photo for this?

Of all the beautiful sunsets/sunrises, shots of people having fun, campfires, fishing, whatever, that I have I went with this one. This was on Kelly Lake in mid-June this year. On our first full day we take off from camp into the mist and the "unknown" of what lies ahead of us. This strikes me as what I really seek out of the BWCA - a group of friends that band together for a week and push on into what waits ahead for better or worse.

I can't wait to see what people choose to display this month!

May waters rise to meet you. May wind and current be always at your back. May the Good Lord paddle with you, And may yours be the lightest pack.

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TuscaroraBorealis

11/12/2010 06:21PM

A cold morning on Sawbill lake May 2010

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kanoes

11/12/2010 06:27PM

ive never done better than this...taken during a lunch break in woodland caribou provincial park. NO photoshopping involved.

i think bigfoot is blurry. (mitch hedberg)

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TomT

11/12/2010 07:09PM

Nice one Kanoes.
I'll use this one of a mouse. It's amazing to me that I even captured it because this mouse was in constant motion. He climbed up the tripod while I followed him in the viewfinder and stopped for just an instant to look at me and then was gone. This was on Moosecamp Lake in Sept. of 2007.

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Zulu

11/12/2010 07:43PM

Late October Trippers on Sea Gull Lake. 2010

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arctic

11/12/2010 09:41PM

Sub-Zero Winter Camp, Sunday Lake, Quetico

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hikesk8sno

11/13/2010 09:28AM

Red Rock 7-23-10
Not for Contest.

www.prbimages.com

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fishguts

11/13/2010 10:32AM

Such hard choices!
So Here is one of my favorites, of my son, Thunderheads on Lake Sarah, Quetico in June 2008

fishguts

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Kiporby

11/13/2010 02:31PM

My little girl fishing at sunset on Long Island Lake, July 2010

There is a light and it never goes out. Morrissey

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satchmoa

11/13/2010 06:31PM

A early October morning on Cherokee

I would rather be upside down in my canoe than right side up at my desk

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Springer2

11/14/2010 11:09AM

Ted Lake, Quetico, sunrise, 5/29/03, looking north from the southern point campsite.

This is a panorama stitched together from two color transparencies. I've always liked the color original but just for fun converted it to black&white using Photoshop's "Adjustment>B&W" with the red filter option (The Ansel Adams option I call it).

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nctry

11/14/2010 07:26PM

From my trip with my son this summer.

Nctry Ben

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mooseplums

11/15/2010 01:31PM

Little Saganaga

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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timheater

11/15/2010 02:40PM

I took this photo on my first boundary waters trip this past September facing east at sun up with a front coming through.
I call it "Eating the darkness"

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1monky

11/15/2010 10:21PM

the bwca at night

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PaddleIN

11/16/2010 11:04AM

At the end of the 180r portage from Insula to Kiana.

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Navigator

11/16/2010 01:37PM

No way of winning this contest this month... way too many fine photograhers on the Forum, but here's my entry :)

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CampinGirl11

11/16/2010 03:27PM

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talusman

11/16/2010 03:44PM

He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone; He's a man who won't fit in.

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paddlingredrock

11/16/2010 08:53PM

Upper Johnson Falls near Pine Lake

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ellroy2

11/16/2010 09:04PM

2008 marsh off Saganaga.

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jcavenagh

11/16/2010 09:09PM

Well, for us this photo is the best of the best as it reflects my brother and I with our teenage sons. It has been at least nine years since we all had been on vacation together. The boys are off to college now and we may never get another chance to be together like this.
Photo was taken August, 2008, at the big sandy site on the southwest end of Agnes in the Q.

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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ILikePike

11/16/2010 10:28PM

Horse Lake Morning, August 2010

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit” -Edward Abbey

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dicecupmaker

11/17/2010 02:37AM

First morning of the first solo, out of Sawbill.
Sept. 2009

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.

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bojibob

11/17/2010 11:51AM

"One inch on the map ~ is not one inch on the ground"

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TuscaroraBorealis

11/17/2010 02:43PM

quote talusman: " "

Is that Sawbill lake????

Your photo looks "hauntingly" familiar;-)

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TomT

11/17/2010 06:25PM

quote CampinGirl11: " "

Is this a view of Ahsub from the high campsite?

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oldgentleman

11/17/2010 07:13PM

Photographed this incident on Disappointment Lake camp 1379 in September of 2009.

You can see the incident from beginning to end at:

Snake and Toad#

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DuluthPak

11/17/2010 09:57PM

Boulder Bay Loon

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MGD

11/17/2010 10:06PM

My dad enjoying his first-ever evening in the BWCA with a fine cigar on the narrows between Gabbro and Little Gabbro this past June

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jwartman59

11/18/2010 12:04AM

basswood river portage, mid October 2010

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mooseplums

11/18/2010 10:21AM

quote oldgentleman: "Photographed this incident on Disappointment Lake camp 1379 in September of 2009.

You can see the incident from beginning to end at:

Snake and Toad# "

Funny....the toad doesn't look very concerned

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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miaamark

11/18/2010 10:53AM

Morning mist on Pickerel Lake - August 2010.

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CampinGirl11

11/18/2010 11:07PM

quote TomT: "quote CampinGirl11: " "

Is this a view of Ahsub from the high campsite?"

I believe that is correct :) It was a great campsite and crowded!!

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TomT

11/19/2010 06:33AM

It looks exacly like a shot I have. The trees give it away. It's not a bad site if you don't mind the hike up from the water. What a view!

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KevinL

11/19/2010 09:29AM

Sunset on Nina-Moose, with one loon. August 2010...Best because it was the last night of my son's first trip to BWCA. Oh so many memories for both of us.

KevinL

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nojobro

11/19/2010 01:05PM

OK, so this is a video and not a picture, but this is my personal "best of the best" for this year:

Portaging video

(new contest idea! BWCA videos!)

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luv2pack

11/19/2010 05:08PM

Great Idea Nojobro!

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Minnesotian

11/20/2010 07:24AM

This one was shot by my buddy Brian this last August. We had Wine Lake all too ourselves and we camped on the island campsite. That night we watched the Perseid Meteor shower that night.

"We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdom." - Thoreau

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oldgentleman

11/20/2010 01:21PM

quote mooseplums: "quote oldgentleman: "Photographed this incident on Disappointment Lake camp 1379 in September of 2009.

Funny....the toad doesn't look very concerned"

The toad was practicing passive resistance. He seemed convinced that if he puffed up enough he'd be too big for the snake to swallow.

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snakecharmer

11/20/2010 05:12PM

Insula sunset.

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau

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Chilly

11/20/2010 05:29PM

quote snakecharmer: "Insula sunset.

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I love that campsite. The small island just right of 12 o'clock we named shiet island because of all the seagull crap all over it. I'm guessing it's a popular fishguts island. I forget what we named the island on the right side of the photo but I'm sure it wasn't proper either.

"Now days these kids take out everything: radar, sonar, electric toothbrushs" Quint

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Spartan2

11/22/2010 02:34PM

"Best of the best" is such a hard decision. But I do love the small treasures of the canoe country, and I think this particular emergent dragonfly is one of my favorite photos. As it came out of its exuvia (skin) it fluttered up into this pine tree and stayed for a few minutes to dry out before flying away.

On an island campsite in LacLaCroix, 6/25/05.

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mr.barley

11/22/2010 06:32PM

Because I'm wearing one and I just did....

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Exo

11/22/2010 11:22PM

Rainbow over Ensign Lake

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SouthernExposure

11/23/2010 11:22AM

Rocky Lake end of portage from Oyster Lake. The combination of composition, watery mystery and kevlar moire pattern caught my attention that morning.

SE

"Them Confederate snipers couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...." Union General John Sedgwick

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rlhedlund

11/23/2010 05:14PM

May 2009 Ogish

Life is good, living is better. Everlasting Life is Best! Pray for Us Amok.

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jb in the wild

11/24/2010 08:41AM

Took this shot on a bushwack into Yodeler last July. Doesn't get any better than this.

You can't explain the obvious to the ignorant.

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h20man

11/24/2010 10:19AM

Disappointment Lake Portage

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TuscaroraBorealis

11/24/2010 11:44AM

quote mr.barley: " "

Cool beans!
Did you portage to Mars? :-)

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butthead

11/24/2010 02:16PM

Adams Lake Sept. 2007

butthead

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” ? Frank Zappa

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ducks

11/25/2010 11:43AM

Perent Lake July 2010

Lunch break on my daughter's first overnight trip.

Pura Vida

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DayDreamin

11/25/2010 12:13PM

Bat Lake 2010

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Obergut

11/26/2010 07:05AM

Bell Lake, 2008

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wetcanoedog

11/26/2010 11:33AM

At The Maline River Falls

Spring of 2006 the East Coast Boys came out for my retirement trip into Quetico.

it's just a level trail thru the woods.

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SunCatcher

11/26/2010 12:34PM

South Temperance Butterfly's
SunCatcher

Dad Always said "We don't Always catch fish...but we ALWAYS have a good time"

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starwatcher

11/26/2010 01:25PM

"Misty Morning" Watching the sun light up the adjacent shore and burn off the morning mist.

Alice Lake - Thursday, October 14th, 2010

starwatcher

"When one finally arrives at the point where schedules are forgotten, and becomes immersed in ancient rhythms, one begins to live." Sigurd F. Olson

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bobbernumber3

11/26/2010 01:42PM

Morning on Knife Lake, Quetico - Lake Trout Trolling

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bojibob

11/27/2010 03:25PM

Harvest Moon over Lake Agnes (Quetico)

"One inch on the map ~ is not one inch on the ground"

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oldgentleman

11/28/2010 10:44PM

quote mr.barley: " "

Great Pic!

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tony

11/29/2010 08:19AM

Ram Lake

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airmorse

11/29/2010 09:44AM

Bullet Lake 2010

"It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you think you've got the stock market beat...but a man worth while is a man who can smile when his shorts are to tight in the seat", Judge Smails.

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jerezlynn

11/30/2010 10:20AM

Lake Four: October 2, 2010: The sun and reflection made the "fish" we never caught on the shoreline across the lake.

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jerezlynn

11/30/2010 10:24AM

Lake Four: October 2, 2010: The sun and reflection made the "fish" we never caught on the shoreline across the lake.

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jamotrade

11/30/2010 12:06PM

Kinda cool how the sun broke through the trees for this group shot from Isabella Lake in June 2009.

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Knoozer

11/30/2010 02:38PM

Too many awesome pics in this category. maybe we should do a calendar/fundraiser of them. Anyway, here's my entry. Gaskin Lake, 2008. One of my favorite BWCA campsites of all time.

God let Peter walk on water. To the rest of us He gave knoos.

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Knoozer

11/30/2010 02:38PM

Double post, computer hiccupped at work.

God let Peter walk on water. To the rest of us He gave knoos.

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kbalser

12/05/2010 04:32PM

Not for Contest ; "Last voyage of the Ironclad"
I'm just posting this because for I really like this picture, mostly for personal reasons I guess. Thanks to all for some nice pics to enjoy.

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sleepnbag

12/07/2010 11:50AM

Lake Three- August 2010

And the Lord said "Let there be Canoes"

"Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path." Psalm 119:105

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slackard

12/07/2010 03:07PM

retracted, submitted too late for nov contest anyway. will resubmit when appropriate

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nojobro

12/07/2010 03:31PM

quote sleepnbag: "Lake Three- August 2010

And the Lord said "Let there be Canoes"

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I can hear the chorus of angels.

LOL.

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slackard

12/07/2010 03:34PM

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Not a submission for this months contest, but photo of an giant wood boring wasp (megarhyssa macrurus), similar to the quoted photo above. Taken June 2009 On South Temperance Lake.

everyone likes strange looking bugs doing strange things :D

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Chilly

12/18/2010 12:31AM

Drum roll please...

"Now days these kids take out everything: radar, sonar, electric toothbrushs" Quint

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CaptainJack

12/27/2010 03:59PM

Too late for the contest I'm sure, but finally got my photos loaded. This one is my favorite. We had 4 straight days of major wind and mostly rain and then one night is just stopped and we got this sunset. The feeling that I get when looking at the photo are surely not the same as someone just viewing it as another photo, but for me it was almost a moment of clarity. Wish I would have had a better camera... ah next year.

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kanoes

12/31/2010 01:42PM

made ya look. :)

i think bigfoot is blurry. (mitch hedberg)

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bapabear

12/31/2010 03:09PM

Yes, Kanoes, you did - ya got me! Been watching this all month and figured the last day of the month/year there might be a decision posted. The wait continues.........

May waters rise to meet you. May wind and current be always at your back. May the Good Lord paddle with you, And may yours be the lightest pack.

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airmorse

12/31/2010 05:31PM

Me too...busted.

"It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you think you've got the stock market beat...but a man worth while is a man who can smile when his shorts are to tight in the seat", Judge Smails.

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adam

Moderator

01/02/2011 08:51AM

The winner of the Nov. Photo contest is Butthead! The trip report contest winner is Exo.

The extra prize goes to Elroy2.

Congratulations to the winners! And thank you everyone for entering.

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butthead

01/02/2011 09:21AM

THANK YOU !!!

butthead

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” ? Frank Zappa

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heavycanoe

01/05/2011 10:17AM

quote Kiporby: "My little girl fishing at sunset on Long Island Lake, July 2010

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For a Father of a little girl it is hard to beat this one!!

most memorable quote from a camping trip "Uh Guys... the tent is on fire"

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Beaverjack

01/09/2011 01:45PM

Here's a well-worn MNII on Afton Lake the morning after.

Tony

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Exo

01/09/2011 09:44PM

THANK YOU!!!

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Beaverjack

01/10/2011 08:31AM

quote miaamark: "Morning mist on Pickerel Lake - August 2010. "

So cool.

Tony

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