Photo: Nikole Rutzen
A last-minute walk around Centennial Lakes results in a breathtaking photo.
Serendipity strikes when we least expect it. For Edina’s Nikole Rutzen, it was a fall day in October when she took a last-minute stroll around Centennial Lakes Park with her daughter, Ellen.
“We just went on a walk in one of our favorite places in Edina. That night we thought, ‘Let’s take a quick lap,’” Rutzen says. As they neared Microsoft, the lake came into view. “We hit the corner, and I thought, ‘Wow, that’s literally a mirror.’ The sky was perfect, and it was a perfect reflection. You had the sun in the background. It was just everything, doubled,” she says.
A resident of Edina for 25 years and an avid reader of Edina Magazine for the last 20, Rutzen is a fan of the Images of Edina contest. “We always look for someone we know and pictures of places that we’ve seen,” she says. When she showed her photos to her kids she says she remembers telling them, “Huh, those actually could be one of those that could be submitted.”
While Rutzen doesn’t call herself a photographer, she notes that she was just lucky enough to witness and record a rare beauty.
Photographer: Nikole Rutzen
Title: Symmetry at Sunset
Equipment: iPhone XR
Category: Businesses
Award: Second Place
