Injured Owl

Got a call at the office today saying that ENR had picked up a Snowy Owl from downtown that had gotten into a fight with some ravens. A reporter and I went down to see where they were keeping it. The supervisor said they would keep it there and feed it for a few days before trying to release it into the wild again. It had some damage done to its eye, but other than that it looked pretty healthy.

Old Town Aurora

Was driving home the other night when I noticed a really long and bright aurora in the sky, so I turned around, picked up my camera at the office and snapped a photo from the New Village ice crossing area of the Northern Lights over Old Town.

Click to view it in full size for the full effect.

House

While I’m at it, I should probably post a photo of the house my girlfriend and I moved into.

Soaring snowboarder

Had to come up with some photos to show at a local art exhibition last weekend, and having shown mostly landscape photos in shows previous, I decided to put together some sports stuff.

I covered the Arctic Winter Games in Yellowknife last March for The Hub and had a bunch of photos from that I really liked. The theme of the art show, however, was “New and Never Seen” so I had to go back into my AWG photos and find something else I liked.

This was one of the frames I came up with. It’s definitely not my favourite of the snowboarding photos I took, but I like the composition of it and the fact that the sky was a perfect, clear blue.

Aurora Borealis

My girlfriend and I just moved out of the highrise apartment we’d been living in and into a 3-bedroom house in the “Old Town” part of Hay River. We have a 10-minute commute to and from work now, but one of the big benefits is that it’s dark enough to capture the Northern Lights from right outside the front door.

Here’s one I snapped on Saturday night from the driveway. The house at the bottom of the frame is right next door to us.

It ran on the front page of this week’s paper.