Month: March 2012

Yesterday was a marathon day of photography. I left the house at 3:30am to shoot the Northern Lights, and didn’t get home until 5:30pm. The result was over 300 photos of a wide variety of subjects from the area bordered by Mary Lake, Jake’s Corner and Skagway. Here’s a...

Spring in the Yukon – this is the time of year that I get anxious for the snow to be gone, and I put a lot of effort into making it disappear from places that I want to dry out and/or turn green as soon as possible. Three weeks...

Watching the aurora borealis is such an amazing way to start the day. I often check the sky when I get up in the morning, but didn’t this morning – my brain is just too busy with other stuff. Just before 6:00, Cathy yelled that there was a good...

The 2012 Arctic Winter Games was held in Whitehorse from March 4th through the 10th, and thousands of people – athletes, supporters and fans – came to town from around the circumpolar world to take part. I adapted the name AWG Air Force from the Iditarod Air Force, the...

We had some interesting visitors on Saturday – a pair of spruce grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) who were certain that Spring has arrived. The male put on quite a performance over a period of about half an hour. He certainly had the eye of the female. Nice work, and good...

One of the questions that comes up fairly regularly on Alaska cruise Forums is whether or not the wonderful colours of Emerald Lake are visible early in the season. Often the answers given are wrong, so I’m posting these photographs as an answer, as I know that many members...