Panorama of Downtown Stillwater

from flickr user Kevin Jack
Panorama of downtown Stillwater on a windy Monday afternoon overlooking the historic Stillwater Lift Bridge & the St. Croix River.

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Stillwater Lift Bridge & the St. Croix River

from flickr user Kevin Jack
The iconic Stillwater Lift Bridge, spanning the St. Croix River, serves tens of thousands of motorists each day traveling to and from Wisconsin for work an leisure. It also allows for a fair amount of boat traffic to pass under its lift span and is especially busy in the summer months as Minnesotans an Wisconsonites alike consider the river their playground on the water.

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Best of MinnPics - September 2014

from flickr user Nick Benson
The Arcola High Bridge, or Soo Line High Bridge, was completed in 1911; the rail's nearly 200 feet above the water, and has total length of roughly 2,700 feet. Despite being an amazing structure, it isn't photographed too often by railfans on account of low train frequency (one train per day in each direction) and its isolated location.

 As the photographer mentioned in his more in-depth explanation of this photo, the 39 degree temperature in September made for a more hurried shoot than anticipated and with weather like that and an explanation of the location and circumstances surrounding the photograph, the moonlit photo of the Arcola High Bridge over the St. Croix River made September's choice one of the easier ones for 2014.

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Dawn on the St Croix River

from flickr user Steve
Glassy water blends seamlessly with the sky above making this photo appear like a giant canvas of water alongside the tree-lined banks of the St. Croix River.

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