“The picture was shot rather early in the day—morning sometime. That, in and of itself, was a factor as I am not an early riser, so it was unusual for me to catch morning shots with that light and subsequent reflection upon the water. I think I was drawn to both the mixture of color and reflection.”
Photographer: Berit Francis
Title: Lake Minnetonka Mornings
Equipment: iPhone Read more about Morning Awakens a Blend of Color and Reflection
Frosty Morning, which placed third in the Wildlife and Nature category of our annual Lens on Lake Minnetonka photo contest, was taken along Birch Bluff Road (Tonka Bay) by Judy Voigt Englund of Excelsior.
“I was on my way to visit my mother and stopped right along the road to admire the rime ice. It had been a foggy morning,” she says. “I only had my cell phone with me, so I rolled down the window and took a couple of photos with my cell [Apple iPhone 8].” Read more about Birch Bluff Beauty
Reflections placed second in the Activities and Events category of our annual photo contest, Lens on Lake Minnetonka.
Michael Gilbertson took the photo on an iPhone 7 during an evening visit near Wawatosa Island (Boy Scout Island). Posing perfectly for her photo is Aurora, a 22-foot Hunter, owned for more than 20 years by the Gilbertsons. Read more about Reflections of Aurora
Michael Gilbertson’s All Aboard placed second in the City Landmarks category of our annual Lens on Lake Minnetonka photo contest. Read more about On the Right Track
It's that time of year again: The Lens on Lake Minnetonka photo contest has returned for its 7th year of beautiful photos of our community. This photo contest, presented by Lake Minnetonka Magazine, showcases the best photographers in our community—not to mention the subjects that give them inspiration.
We're looking for photos that show off the core values of Lake Minnetonka in five categories: Read more about Lens on Lake Minnetonka Photo Contest 2017
Remember this lake dock from our June issue’s Last Glance page? Minnetonka photographer Tracie Bea Daum is at it again, and her fishing family is reeling ’em in.
Daum took this photo, Fish On, in the Carson Bay area of Lake Minnetonka on a warm summer night last July, with her Canon 6D. It received an honorable mention in the People & Families category of our 2015 Lens on Lake Minnetonka photo contest. Read more about Minnetonka Resident Tracie Bea Daum Receives an Honorable Mention for Her Photo, Fish On
Amy McPartlin never saw the need to own a high-quality camera until she took a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Africa in January 2015.
“I used my iPhone camera the whole trip,” says McPartlin. “The photos were so awful that I got home and bought a real camera.”
For the past year, McPartlin has been using her Sony Cyber-shot camera to take photos of the wildlife around Saint Paul. Read more about Urban Oasis
It's said that a picture is worth 1,000 words. But this photo, “Tu4Tu,” which took first place in the People & Families category of our 2015 Lens on Lake Minnetonka photo contest, offers even more of a story. Read more about Lens on Lake Minnetonka: Joyous Jump
Talent and training are all well and good, but sometimes capturing a winning photo comes down to patience and luck. Being in the right place at the right time is how Nile Fellows describes capturing Female Oriole at Nest, his photo that took second place in the Wildlife and Nature division of our first annual Picture Saint Paul photo contest.
This is Fellows’ first award for his photography; as a hobbyist, he is less interested in accolades than in documenting Minnesota’s natural beauty “just for fun,” he says. Read more about Local Hobbyist Takes Second Place in Photo Contest
It’s no secret that a poppy in full bloom is a sight to behold. But earlier in the season, within its unblossomed petals, the flower holds the potential and beauty of the spring and summer that is yet to come. Read more about Local Photographer Nancy Cohodes Receives Honorable Mention for Her Photo, Unpopped Poppies
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