Chuck Olsen
@chuckumentary.bsky.social
Boreal human photographer under the actual blue sky
Lake Superior is my favorite ocean 🌊
August 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Lake Superior is my favorite ocean 🌊
Sunset in Superior National Forest
July 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Sunset in Superior National Forest
Temperance River carves a steep canyon o’er hidden (and not-so-hidden) falls, to her chilly Lake Superior destiny.
July 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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
May 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Please enjoy this Baltimore Oriole eating oranges to-day
Frosty moose breakfast in Superior National Forest
May 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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.
May 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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.
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...
April 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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!
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!
April 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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!
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!
High Falls on a cloudy spring day 💦 Pigeon River, between Grand Portage and Canada (our two nations to the north)
April 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
High Falls on a cloudy spring day 💦 Pigeon River, between Grand Portage and Canada (our two nations to the north)
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)
April 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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.
April 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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.
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!
April 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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—
April 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It’s currently snowing in Tofte ❄️ also—
Iskigamizige-giizis (Boiling Sap Moon)
April 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Iskigamizige-giizis (Boiling Sap Moon)
Temperance River is so lovely in the springtime
April 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Temperance River is so lovely in the springtime
Hang in there folks! (Bumble bee on St. John’s Wort from the archives)
April 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Hang in there folks! (Bumble bee on St. John’s Wort from the archives)
Oberg Mountain sunset
April 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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.
April 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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.
Moody forest as the recent snow storm was starting up
April 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Moody forest as the recent snow storm was starting up
A beautiful sunrise in the snowy
North
North
April 4, 2025 at 6:05 AM
A beautiful sunrise in the snowy
North
North
Welp! New blizzard just dropped 😂
April 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Welp! New blizzard just dropped 😂
More winter and ice in the golden sunlight
April 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
More winter and ice in the golden sunlight
Good morning from the still kinda-frozen North Shore of Lake Superior, as we all wait for the big winter storm tomorrow. ✌️
April 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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 🌎
April 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It’s a tiny planet, we’re just living on it 🌎