Thomas Detert 9/9/20 Thomas Detert 9/9/20

Moss on a Rock

Pukaskwa National Park is located near Marathon, Ontario Canada. A 5 hour drive north-west from Sault Ste. Marie, near the Pic Mobert First Nation.

Pukaskwa has a lot to offer the adventurous, thrill-seeking traveller, as well as the beach goers. It has beautiful hiking trails that are short and easy, medium trails, and even an 18 km (11 mile) round-trip hike to a suspension bridge over a river. There are two sand beaches to choose from. A recently renovated and modernized campground offers an affordable and fun place to stay.

What brings me back to Pukaskwa, time and time again, is the kayaking. Within paddling distance are several coves, each with its own unique spectacles to offer. I love spending hours on the water exploring the shoreline and adjacent coves.

You could paddle morning, noon and evening to the same coves and each time the views would be dramatically different. The morning sun and the evening sun highlight different sides of the cove.

I must have passed by the above granite shore a dozen times in the last two years. But it wasn’t until sunset on August 13, 2020 that I saw the light playing with the calm water, the exposed granite, and the multi-coloured, mutli-layer moss.

I love this photo so much in fact that it is my current desktop background on my laptop!

For the techie in you.. This was shot with a Sony RX10IV camera at 24 mm @ f/16, handheld from my kayak. It was shot handheld, and processed in Adobe LightRoom.

Pukaskwa… I will be back!

Thomas Detert 3/15/20 Thomas Detert 3/15/20

Icy Reflections

The Story Behind Icy Reflections

It was a beautiful, sunny and relatively mild winter day in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. My friend Jake Cormier and I decided to take a drive north of the city, along Highway 17 to explore the Lake Superior Shoreline.

As we headed north, we lost the sunshine, and the vast majority of the wind.

We drove all the way up to Agawa Bay, located in the southern end of Lake Superior Provincial Park. The experience was surreal. The lake was completely open and with the exception of some snow in spots along the shoreline, it looked and felt like a cool summer day.

You could see the sand, the sand bars, and even some remnants of the grass blades growing out of the sand.

We worked our way down south, back towards Sault Ste. Marie.. We stopped at a popular photo spot known as SawPit Bay. It was at this location I photographed “Icy Reflections”. We were losing the light. However, the darkening light and sky made for a nice somber mood to photograph little microcosms in the bay.

Icy Reflections is the ultimate photo from the day’s shoot. I really love the mood it captures.