Recently, Kerry Little and I travelled to the eastern shore of Lake Superior for 10 days, specifically to photograph parts of Lake Superior Provincial Park and Pukaskwa National Park. We were familiar with the area having visited on previous occasions: hiking LSPP's Coastal Trail in 2008 and Pukaskwa's Coastal Trail way back in 1996 as well as visits with our families when our kids were still kids.
We both enjoy the remoteness of this part of Ontario as well as photographing along the Superior coast. If you haven't been there, picture a vast, cold-water sea next to the rugged Canadian Shield. Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake on Earth (by area) and contains fully 10% of the world's surface freshwater. The Canadian Shield covers about 1/2 of Canada, is covered with boreal forest, a million lakes, and Precambrian Rock over 2 billion years old, and is sparsely populated (think mining and lumber towns).
My goal was to capture the essence of this dramatic coast: the trees, the rock, the lake, the cliffs and undulating headlands of this dynamic, remote and almost natural landscape.
