Not Dead

The blog isn't dead just in a brief hibernation.

Life has been getting in the way of my blogging.

Once again I will be up and running again soon with some changes.

Me & I

What's that in the eye?

Accidental shot while playing with my macro lens.

Moonbow

The light of the moon reflecting through some high cirrus clouds to make a moonbow or a half corona.

Got lucky last night and happen to be out and looked up at the right time.

The weather has finally changed and it is now bitterly cold out.

The 2010 Nunies

Well it seems the impossible has happened and I got nominated for the best Nunavut Blog for 2010.  Clair from The House & other arctic Musings left me a message letting me know I was nominated.  Cool.  Don't think I will win over Townie Bastard or Bulldogs & Babies but it's an honor that someone liked the blog enough to nominate me.  Those and the other nominated blogs are very well written.  My blog has always been more of a photography blog.  I will have to hit Clair up for a photography section next year. 

So if you are a fan of the site please give me a vote at Clairs site!  Just click this LINK to go to the post to vote.

Northern Fools

Look here are two northern fools now!

Photo by Ken.

Moon, Juipter and Lights

I'm trying to get motivated to get out and do some photography again.  The lights were dim tonight but there was still the opportunity for some nice photos if you knew where to look.



Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

Kananginak Pootoogook

Kananginak Pootoogook is a Cape Dorset artist that passed away on November 23, 2010.  See a brief history of him here.  Turns out I purchased one of his works at the 2009 print show in Cape Dorset called Proud Leader.  I was actually looking to purchase a different print that year but with the high number drawn it was long gone by the time my turn came around.  Of the ones left "Proud Leader" had grabbed my attention earlier in the evening and was the one I chose.  The web doesn't do it justice.  Turns out it is one of his more popular prints and was used at the top of the Dorset Fine Arts calender that year.  I don't purchase prints based on the artist but on what I like at the time.  Still feel good about this purchase.  

Proud Leader Etching & Aquatint 59.5 x 56.5 50/50

Not for sale.

The Oil Tank

My new oil tank.

Shiny!

Same old tank stand.

Yawn

I'm still around.

The continuous overcast and dreary weather seems to have gotten to me.  Just haven't been getting out to do any photography lately that was worth putting on the blog.  I did realize no photos from my vacation in August appeared on the site so some of those will be the focus of the end of the post.  Why was thoughts of my last vacation filtering through my noggin you ask?  Well I booked holidays for February.  Yaaaa.

Back to the weather.  It has been a strange winter season so far.  The temperature hasn't been below -10C and we (and Iqaluit) have been some of the warmest places in Canada.  In the four years (starting the 5th on Dec 4) since Cape Dorset has been my home this is the first time Tellik Inlet has been ice free in November.  Many folks are wondering if it will be ice free at Christmas.  If it is it will screw up the annual snowmobile run and races on the ice.  We shall see.  Also when will the cloud go away it's been overcast since September.

I leave you with some of those August vacation photos from a day at my brothers work.

Original stained glass window.

                           

I know it's just a grate in the ceiling.

I got to go places the general public don't see.  Finally got permission to go up the tower in the afternoon.  My bro said it would be a bit difficult.  I guess by difficult he meant vertical climbs, cramped spaces and swinging out into open spaces with dark vertical drops.  In this photo I'm looking up and saying to myself don't look down, don't look down.  I was also saying "Are you f*****g crazy?!?"  Followed by my little brothers motivational reply "Ha ha. Come on you p***y".  Damn but didn't it work.

The hole at the top wasn't big enough to come straight up so this photo was an accidental shot as the camera was passed through.  Kind of cool.

I wouldn't go all the way up since the railing was only knee high and only for decoration.  Also being scared of heights may have had something to do with it.  What a person does to get a couple of photos.

Before the band formed for the march to the capital buildings.

Sword handle.

mmmm.  Those leprechauns are everywhere.

Cape Dorset Prints

Tonight was the annual Cape Dorset print show.  Since there is only one of each print to chose from the print shop has a bag with numbers in it that everyone reaches into to determine who goes first.  Lowest number first.  As my turn approached the numbers coming out of the bag were large (50,48,46,34,38, etc) and I mentioned with all these large numbers coming out it should only leave the small ones.  When my hand came out of the bag it was holding number one!  So with that advantage I chose print number 34 Vigilant Wolves.  It's one of the prints that is sold out across Canada.  Several people at the show were disappointed it was gone.  The two purchased prints are below and the sizes are in cm. 

#34 - Vigilant Wolves by Tim Pitsiulak - Lithograph 28.5x77 50/50

    

#26 - Flip Flop by Ohotaq Mikkigak - Stonecut & Stencil 35x41 50/50