Northern Life
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Cool photo.
About the time I was taking the photo that I posted here, a friend of mine was taking a picture of the House and the sun through the wind driven snow. He shared it with me so I'm sharing it with you. Photo courtesy of Thomas Levi.
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Always bring the camera
There is a minor blizzard going on right now, the visibility has improved immensely and the snow fall has dropped off, but the wind is clocking around 25 knots right about now. I just picked up Leah from work, where she was doing inventory, and on my way to get her I was cursing myself
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More old slides
These will be the last of the scanned slides for awhile. The first goes back before my time in Arctic Bay. This shot was taken from my house, the building you can see was the RCMP Detachment in Fort Providence (yeah, I had a long commute). That is a Wood Bison grazing on my lawn.
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Cowboy Canyon
It is truly amazing the amount of variety in the landscape here, fjords, mountains, tundra, cliffs and ocean. One of the features that surprised me the first time I saw it here, are our “badlands”. There are several areas in the immediate vicinity that have hoodoos and other wind eroded features, but the most accessible
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I’m running down to the shore to pick up some groceries…
It was a local, busy day yesterday. After watching the sealift ship arrive on Saturday, only to give up in the face of a strong wind and a lot of ice, my plans on having separate days for Thanksgiving and the sealift went up in smoke. So once freight actually started making it to shore,
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Hip-hop in Da House
This past week has seen a group of young men and women (and the not so young) in Arctic Bay, teaching Hip-hop and (more importantly) life skills, to local youth. Buddah (okay he's my age, and can slide across the floor in a head stand), is the leader of Blueprint for Life, and he and
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The last Sealift ship has arrived
… and I'll bet they're just pumped about doing this in Mid-October. I know I'm thrilled about unloading my crates in this weather.
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Arctic Photography
Some of the most amazing photography from the Arctic gets posted on a blog from Pangnirtung, called Kluglanoch Corner. I believe he uses a technique known as HDR photography (High Dynamic Range), but what ever it is his images are simply stunning. It behooves you to pay a visit and check them out. This is
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Grey
As the light grew this morning, it seemed as though the entire world was an Ansel Adams' photo. A greyscale world of half-tones. Even the iceberg replaced its blue-white glow with a dark grey, looking for all the world like a gigantic shark's fin rising from the gun metal blue grey of the Bay. It