Chuck Olsen
Boreal human photographer under the actual blue sky
- A beautiful arctic sea smoke sunrise over Lake Superior this morning. Sending healing vibes. ❤️🩹
- Reposted by Chuck OlsenICE kidnapped an elderly Hmong man in St. Paul, Minnesota. The temperature was sub-zero, and he was taken only wearing shorts and Crocs, and no shirt. (1/18/26)
- Amazing news! My film “Winter Is For Everyone” was just selected by Shorts in Winter Short Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!
- Happy new year from the Gunflint Trail! 🥂 🌲 ❄️
- Pants status: Photoshop clown brush
- Fresh snow on the Temperance River ❄️ 🌲 Superior National Forest
- Ope I’ve been neglecting Bluesky, here’s an OrangeSky.
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- Cold, dry and sudden: The dangers of ocean current collapse due to a warming planet www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
- An excellent overview explaining why federal troops cannot generally be used as law enforcement. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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- Lake Superior is my favorite ocean 🌊
- Sunset in Superior National Forest
- “Switzerland announced a fully open‑source large language model, trained on its carbon‑neutral Alps supercomputer…Supporting over 1,000 languages, with transparent training data and code…setting a new international benchmark for sovereign, ethical AI.” www.winssolutions.org/switzerland-...
- Temperance River carves a steep canyon o’er hidden (and not-so-hidden) falls, to her chilly Lake Superior destiny.
- Please enjoy this Baltimore Oriole eating oranges to-day
- Frosty moose breakfast in Superior National Forest
- My first 🫎 sightings this year! A lovely pair having breakfast on a frosty 23° morning in Superior National Forest. Let’s protect this precious watershed and habitat.
- People are waking up, hopefully in time? www.axios.com/2025/04/29/p...
- Happy International Dark Sky Week. Here’s an excerpt from my WTIP interview with night sky photographer and Grand Portage tribal member Travis Novitsky, paired with my night sky photos. The full interview: wtip.org/grand-portag...
- Happy #EarthDay to my fellow humans, and to the trees, rocks, air, water and wildlife we are privileged to protect. This reckless administration is trying to roll back 150 years of environmental protections and plunder our public lands for profit. Let’s fight to protect our world!
- Remembering Prince, gone from this world 9 years ago. I (badly) captured 360° video of the spontaneous memorial outside First Avenue that day for MPR: youtu.be/FHlZ_MD5VWU?...
- High Falls on a cloudy spring day 💦 Pigeon River, between Grand Portage and Canada (our two nations to the north)
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- Spotted the first Northern Flicker woodpecker in our yard today - it was hunting for bugs in the ground while light snow was falling. (This photo from April ‘24)
- In early spring, the male Pileated Woodpecker excavates a large nest hole in a dead tree. I was very happy to run across this walking in Tofte today! I only had my iPhone so the quality isn’t great. If he attracts a female, the two of them will finish excavating the nest cavity.
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- This is devastating to rural community radio. My station is the only broadcast news source in a region with a huge number of wilderness tourists that rely on our services and signal - not to mention locals. Please call your Senators & protest this clawing back of funds already allocated by Congress!
- It’s currently snowing in Tofte ❄️ also—
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- Iskigamizige-giizis (Boiling Sap Moon)
- Mirrorworld
- Temperance River is so lovely in the springtime
- Hang in there folks! (Bumble bee on St. John’s Wort from the archives)
- Oberg Mountain sunset
- Such great vibes with my little seaside community! #HandsOff protest of about 300 people in Grand Marais, MN today, marching by Lake Superior for a better world.
- Reposted by Chuck OlsenSpectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
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- Moody forest as the recent snow storm was starting up
- A beautiful sunrise in the snowy North
- Welp! New blizzard just dropped 😂
- Good morning from the still kinda-frozen North Shore of Lake Superior, as we all wait for the big winter storm tomorrow. ✌️
- It’s a tiny planet, we’re just living on it 🌎
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- Sunset ships & Superior waves
- A gorgeous sunset on Lake Superior last evening
- “A decade into Trump’s authoritarian attack on democracy, pundits still let Trump hijack their attention with the spectacular nature of his speech, willfully helping to disseminate Trump’s most outrageous statements in the form he packaged them up in.” www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/31/t...
- Superior shoreline 360° photo
- A vivid Blue Jay
- Snow, pretty snow ❄️
- The gently-mountainous landscape of Grand Portage, MN
- Superior shoreworld
