Inuvikphotos.ca (Daily views from the NWT)

Twenty-four hour sunlight is highly overrated. At least in winter you get some atmosphere.

Inuvik is a town of 3500 people, but you can still catch live music most nights of the week.

The Mad Trapper has a house band, which plays classic rock. (You know, stuff like Trooper and the Rolling Stones.) They also break out a fiddle for some jigging now and then.

These guys have top skills, after playing hundreds of shows.

This band is called Back Up and Push: A familiar technique to anyone who’se gotten their car stuck in the snow during Inuvik’s long winters.

A pretty regular scene around Inuvik. Youth vandlism, perhaps?
Pretty soon this entire town will be plaxiglas-only.

Why is it that so many huskies have different coloured eyes?

This post isnt specifically “northern” but I recenty lost some photos in a file corruption accident.

While I used a program to recover the files (somehow getting them back from wherever digital stuff goes when it’s deleted) they came back garbled.

Looks like a wierd art piece, no?

Here’s another view from last Saturday at 3am.
Dig those crazy green swirls!

NorthMart has some interesting lamps, and a cross-hatched lens filter only adds to the effect.

“Last skateboard ride of the season” indeed…

Northern lights were faint on Saturday night, but visible nonetheless.

With a slow shutter speed (almost five seconds) and a slow sync flash (meaning the flash goes off right at the end, freezing the foreground) I was able to capture these images. A tripod was essential for stability.

(Note about the beauty and reality of Inuvik: These photos were taken at 2:30am, and I had to move away from some drunks who were fighting on the wet lawn of the church. I also met some kids on bicycles, who happened to be riding around.)