Sunset colors the eastern horizon across Keweenaw Bay on Lake Superior from a black sand beach near Houghton, Michigan. Photography by Steven Huyser-Honig.

Twilight on Scoville Cove at Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Photographed by Robert deJonge during his 2011 Artist-in-Residence program.

Lake Superior greets the sunrise near Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in this photo by Robert deJonge.

Presque Isle Harbor, north of Marquette, Michigan, has an active ore dock. The lighthouse is at the end of a very long doglegged breakwater. The first half of the breakwater is concrete, but the rest is made of rough-hewn rock. Photography by Steven Huyser-Honig.

The shoreline of Lake Superior at Sullivans Landing in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Alger county, Michigan. Photo by John Dykstra.

The sun comes up over Bob’s cove on Isle Royale National Park along the granite shoreline. Photography by Robert deJonge.

“These beautiful agate stones carpet the waters along Lake Superior adjacent to Iroquois Point Lighthouse. The water bends the light rays and shimmer over the stones, looking like electricity moving the rocks to life.” ~ photographer Bill Vriesema.

The wind brushes the granite face of Scoville point on Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior. Photography by Robert deJonge, captured during his 2011 Artist-in-Residence program.

Agate Harbor as seen from the summit of Brockway Mountain on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Photography by Steven Huyser-Honig.

An artistic weaving of Lake superior themes from the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in the upper peninsula of Michigan, by Robert deJonge.

This summer (2011), MichiganMoments.com artist Robert deJonge has been selected to be Artist-in-Residence at Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior. He is looking forward to this incredible opportunity made possible by our national parks …

A sandstone bluff spreads out high above Lake Superior in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in this image by photographer Steven Huyser-Honig.

The beautiful, magical colors of the Miners Castle area in a photograph by Christopher Kierkus.

The crystal blue waters of Lake Superior break on the shore of Miners Beach in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, by photographer Steven Huyser-Honig.

“This image was taken on my trip to the Porcupine Mountains in June 2009. There was great light on the beach of Lake Superior.” ~ Tom Haxby

Fayette Historic State Park, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (about 40 minutes east of Escanaba) houses a Historic Townsite, a representation of a once bustling industrial community. Photo by Christopher Kierkus.

A red rainbow captured by Stacy Niedzwiecki on Lake Superior from the deck of the S/V Denis Sullivan, entering the Portage Lake area on the Keweenaw Peninsula.

The stony shoreline at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, as photographed by Robert deJonge.

The famous Miners Castle area of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, as photographed by Jessamyn Smallenburg.

An old sea wall is isolated in the shallow waters of Lake Superior at Crisp Point in this image captured by Steven Huyser-Honig.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore captured by photographer Tom Haxby, as early snowmelt cascades down to Lake Superior.

Reflections of the White Fish Point lighthouse captured by photographer Brad Reed. Whitefish Point Lighthouse overlooks Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior. Whitefish Point is known as the “Graveyard of Ships” as more vessels have been lost here than in any other part of the lake. Hundreds of vessels, including the famed Edmund Fitzgerald, lie on the bottom of the bay and the approaches.

One must take a boat ride to catch this point of view of the Pictured Rocks in the Upper Peninsula. Over millions of years water dripping down the rock cliffs along the Lake Superior shoreline have left mineral deposits. The beauty of the Pictured Rocks is quite evident in this image captured by Tom Haxby.

The beautiful colors of a sunrise over Lake Superior in the Porcupine Mountains area by photographer John Dysktra.