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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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The landslide brings you down.
The Saint George's Society Cliffs are one of my favourite places out here. Spectacular red vertical cliffs that jut 600 feet out of Adam's Sound, they are right around the corner from where I live. This time of year we are often found standing below them on the sea ice, especially at the Gyrfalcon aerie…
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Nemesis no more
It may surprise some people, given where I live, that I have never seen a Snowy Owl up here. Oh I've seen them in the south, on one of their irruptions, but never up where they are a common breeding bird. But I've never travelled to where they commonly breed, and have relied on chance…
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Some times you’re the windshield, some times you’re the bug
I had two interesting encounters with Ravens today. Both decidedly different. This morning we headed off dog sledding, as we do most weekend these days. The puppy is getting big enough and bold enough that he has followed us on a couple occasions. I've tended to just let him run as far as he can…
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Ol’ Halfbeak’s return
Almost exactly three years ago, on April 8th, 2009, I had the opportunity to photograph an unusual Raven. The Raven, feeding on some scraps of meat behind the House, was missing half of its bottom beak. An unusual site to be sure, but it seemed to be suffering no ill effects from the injury or…
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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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More Hare
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Bunny Bonanza
The Arctic Hare (Lepus arcticus) population is on a high year this year. For much of the same reasons as people in the south are seeing huge numbers of Snowy Owls this year, the hares enjoyed a good breeding season. With the lemming populations high this past summer predators put much less pressure on the…
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Pins on a map
This afternoon, as I walked from the plane to terminal in Iqaluit I looked back to a beautiful slim crescent moon, followed in the sky by Venus and Jupiter. As the sky has deepened tonight I can't seem to keep my eyes from drifting up to them. It is a nice way to (almost) end…
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Hello, is it me you’re looking for?
I caught a glimpse of the fireworks from Winterfest the other the day. We had stumbled into a Formula Taxi race somehow, and were speeding through the city. The last time I'd been going that fast in a city was during a high speed chase through the streets of Saskatoon. But as we approached downtown…
