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The picture of support: how you can support the park you love and enjoy the beauty of original island photography
Photographer Peter Wagner fell in love with the Apostle Islands through the lens of his camera. Now, the Friends Business Member and owner of Superior Photographic would like to give back to the islands through offering his art in support of Friends of the Apostle Islands.
Purchase any of Peter Wagner’s work through his Superior Photographic website between now and the end of the year and you will both receive a 20% discount on his work and trigger another 20% donation to the projects and programs of Friends of the Apostle Islands.
For Wagner, his photographic journey began more than 53 years ago when he first picked up a camera to become the photography editor of his high school yearbook back in Guilford, Connecticut.
From that moment, he set out to begin learning the art of photography. “Just as a guitar player must learn how to strum and fret a guitar,” he says. “a photographer must learn how to observe a scene, looking past the obvious, searching for color, shape, contrast, texture, and tone. It is a trained skill that creates visual rhythm.”
For much of his professional career in other fields, he traveled throughout North America, camera in hand as a hobby. “My photography is driven by my love of nature and travel,” Wagner says, “and influenced by the joy I experience through quiet, understated architectural design and stimulated by the colors and shapes present in each sunrise and sunset.”
It was, in fact, one of those sunsets that cemented Wagner’s love of Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands. “My focus was kickstarted on the shores of Lake Superior at Little Sand Bay in December 2019,” he says, with “a brilliant sunset coloring the sky, the lake, and the ice at -3 degrees and a 10 mile per hour wind.”
December sunset – Peter Wagner photo
Mainland ice caves – Peter Wagner photo
Now retired, Wagner spends much of his time at his cabin on Bark Point, sitting 65 feet above Lake Superior in Herbster, focusing on his love of landscape photography and, as he says, “taking in all the wonders which Lake Superior delivers to my door.”
And now, the work of Peter Wagner can deliver that same beauty right to your door and give you the satisfaction of contributing to Friends of the Apostle Islands as well. Go to his website at www.Superiorphotographic.com, chose your photograph, and enter the promo code apostles2020 when you check out. You will get the beauty of a Peter Wagner photograph and the satisfaction of supporting Friends of the Apostle Islands.
Friends would like to thank Peter Wagner for his generosity and support.
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