PHOTO OF THE DAY December 9, 2005  

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Where Ely, Minnesota
When 1997
Photographer Joel Sartore

“I love the purifying snows of winter," said naturalist Sigurd Olson on the subject of northern Minnesota’s vast wilderness. "Then spring comes creeping, and thousands of island-dotted lakes begin to absorb their thick skins of ice, and there’s a transformation so intense that I have the impression of traveling a long distance, without leaving home.”

— Text from "Minnesota Wilderness," June 1993, National Geographic magazine

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Gray Wolves," May 1998, National Geographic magazine)


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