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On a recent trip to Duluth Karla and I stopped at Brighton Beach to look at the ice shards. There weren’t huge piles but there were some nice formations of ice.

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It looked like somebody had spent quite a bit of time piling up plates of ice to make this fort. This wasn’t a safe thing to do as this fort wasn’t on the beach but is over about 20 feet of water. I am glad nobody went through the ice as they walked that close to the open water.

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The next morning I photographed the sunrise through some of the prettiest shards.

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The sun peeked through a break in the clouds.

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As the sea smoke turned color I photographed the sun through the shards, which turned out to be my favorite photo for the morning.

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