On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:43:33 -0700, John Poirier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Frank and all. > > You folks in Toronto are really tough. It's only -16 in Yellowknife right > now. > > Of course, that's probably the warmest it's been since October. And we are > just coming out of over a month of -30s and 40s. Kept shooting, though. > Put half a dozen rolls through a Super Program, a Spotmatic and an LX. > > Next week I'm heading for the real Arctic. My job is taking me to Inuvik, > Tuktoyaktuk and Fort MacPherson, shooting 4x5 (or 6x7 if it's too cold) for > some large photomurals. If there isn't a blizzard in Tuk I'll be heading > out by skidoo (with a local guide) to shoot a big pingo in the Mackenzie > Delta and ice pressure ridges on the Beaufort Sea. In Fort MacPherson I > expect to hit the Mackenzie Mountains and perhaps some river valleys. Don't > know yet whether it will be by skidoo or truck. Around Inuvik I'll be > shooting the northern fringe of the boreal forest where trees are quite > stunted and widely separated. I'm taking my -50 clothing for the gig. Odds > are high that I'll at least hit some extreme wind chills along the way. > > I'm actually a long-time lurker on the PUG. Seldom have time to > participate, but being this isolated it's nice to be able to keep in touch a > bit. > > John
Well, we Torontonians are still (rightly so) living down Mayor Mel's decision to call in the army during that blizzard about 5 or 6 years ago. I mean, yeah, it was a blizzard, but hell, this is Canada, right? (I mean, eh?) Okay, I have to know: What's a "pingo"? Thanks. <vbg> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
