The sun decided to give us a Valentine’s Day treat in the form of geomagnetic radiation. The sky over Fort Chip was filled with brilliant and fast-moving auroras which I’m told could be seen from around 9 p.m. until dawn. Here’s another time lapse I did between 12:15 and 1:15 a.m.

This past weekend, Leanne and I decided to make a trip to Fort McMurray via the winter road – 280 kilometres of groomed ice and snow between here and there. We loaded up Van Morrison (our 1995 Plymouth Voyager) with various emergency supplies, snacks, topped the tank up with gas, topped our travel mugs with […]

Thought I would have a try at doing a time lapse of the Northern Lights from our front deck while I made supper tonight for Leanne. The following is 120 frames shot over about one hour and 20 minutes. For the full HD version, click the title of the video to watch it on vimeo.com. […]

Evenings in Fort Chip are usually fairly low-key for Leanne and I, but every once in a while – like tonight – the skies come alive and treat us to a show. It was just about 8 p.m. this evening when I saw some friends who live further north had posted on Facebook that the […]

As we live in a very remote part of Northern Alberta, it’s very rare for Leanne and I to have visitors. But we were very lucky this weekend as our two good friends, Angela and Bernard, came down on the winter road from Hay River, NWT to stay with us for two nights. Along with […]

February last year was certainly an eventful month. On the 14th, TheBetterHalf® and I hopped on a plane and headed to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic for her sister’s wedding. It was a beautiful (though brutally hot) ceremony for which I was lucky enough to be the photographer. Quite literally the day I came back to Halifax […]