Photography
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A warning for sailors
It was quite the sky this morning.
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Politics
How can I, that moon hanging there, My attention fixOn American, or Russian, Or Canadian politics? (With apologies to W.B. Yeats) This past Saturday found me in a bad mood. I was grumpy, and irritable. And though I recognized that I was part way through the day it did nothing to mitigate it. Every mve the dogs
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When Hares fly
One of my photos will soon be traveling around the north, in a rather big way. This photo of an Arctic Hare that I took this spring was bought by First Air. In about a month’s time it will be put up on the tail fin of one of their ATR-42 turboprop passenger planes traveling
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Backlit flight
Sure its a photo of burning garbage. But the backlit smoke, contrasted by the Raven in flight makes it one of my favourite images thus far this year.
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And in the morning.
Two ravens flying with purpose to a destination they alone knew, came straight at me from far out over the bay. Behind them the pale blue sky was tinged with mauve and pink at the horizon. The first sunless morning of the season was breaking. There is a quality of light here that staggers one.
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At the going down of the Sun
Yesterday the Sun set. And that's okay. We'll not see the Sun again here in town until the 6th of February. That curious tilt of the earth (23 1/3˚ if you're interested) has carried the pole away from the Sun and into the Earth's shadow for the next three months. If you've followed along you'll
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Anticipation
I so cannot wait to be able to get safely closer to this iceberg, which will probably spend the winter locked in the ice near town. I know, I know, more iceberg photos. You'll just have to tough it out.
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The Big Freeze
Arctic Bay froze yesterday, hopefully it will stay. If the calm weather remains, it will. Once again it is late from what I know as normal, the Thanksgiving Weekend. My understanding was normal used to be even earlier before I got here. The last six or so years have seen late freeze ups, from 3