Bryan Hansel
Kawishiwi River Rapids
Water rushes past a rocky island on the Kawishiwi River in a long exposure. 110507-5
I was in the Ely area over the last few days doing a 3-day recertification class for my Wilderness First Responder certification. Outward Bound sponsored the class, and during the class, I stayed on their campus. The Kawishiwi River flows past the OB campus and just downstream from a cool little rapids is this island. During this 57 second exposure, I captured the water rushing by. The wind was out, so on many of my attempts, the rock actually ended up blurry from the wind moving my tripod and camera. I was hoping for more movement in the trees, but I got what I got. I cropped this down from 3:2 to 4:3, because I thought it framed the island better. In the 3:2 image, there's more stream to the right of this crop.
Near this location, a mining company wants to try sulfide mining, which has a 100% track record of pollution. The river here runs out of the BWCA and then back into the Boundary Waters. Assuming that sulfide mining continues their flawless record of polluting wherever they mine, the pollution will probably leak into the Kawishiwi River system and into the BWCA. Seems like a bad trade to me.
Read my essay about the sulfide mining near the BWCA. And watch this video: Precious Waters
Kawishiwi River Rapids
Water rushes past a rocky island on the Kawishiwi River in a long exposure. 110507-5
I was in the Ely area over the last few days doing a 3-day recertification class for my Wilderness First Responder certification. Outward Bound sponsored the class, and during the class, I stayed on their campus. The Kawishiwi River flows past the OB campus and just downstream from a cool little rapids is this island. During this 57 second exposure, I captured the water rushing by. The wind was out, so on many of my attempts, the rock actually ended up blurry from the wind moving my tripod and camera. I was hoping for more movement in the trees, but I got what I got. I cropped this down from 3:2 to 4:3, because I thought it framed the island better. In the 3:2 image, there's more stream to the right of this crop.
Near this location, a mining company wants to try sulfide mining, which has a 100% track record of pollution. The river here runs out of the BWCA and then back into the Boundary Waters. Assuming that sulfide mining continues their flawless record of polluting wherever they mine, the pollution will probably leak into the Kawishiwi River system and into the BWCA. Seems like a bad trade to me.
Read my essay about the sulfide mining near the BWCA. And watch this video: Precious Waters