winter photos

www.bluetyger.ca magazine

Special thanks to:

Ian Donen, Mike Connealy, and the moments of sunlight that made it through.

7 Winter Photos

by W.J. Gibson

ice fishermen bask in -18 Celsius sunshine on Midland Bay

I froze a digital camera this day, the sun was bright.

I noticed how I seemed to be struggling in the cold to consider the composition

and I was disappointed that the huts were so damned far apart.

The snow was frozen and each step made that funny styrofoam squeaky sound.

The water under these two is forty feet deep.

The black thing left of their feet is a fish finder.

That day the fish were looking a their fishermen finder and had all the huts and iceholes pegged perfectly.

ice on the window

Too cold to shoot outdoors, so I stayed in and let the ice come to me.

The sun took it back in an hour.

ice huts on Midland Bay

After the digicam froze up, I kept on with a 35mm camera.

It is an obvious thing to put the darned camera on a tripod

but I don't do it often enough. Some time

I will remember why I am hurrying.

winter light finds its way into the kitchen

I walked into the kitchen and saw the light

coming in late and low angled in the afternoon.

The wall behind dark.

It looked crisper than this, the glasses almost alive.

-18 Celsius

I wonder how old this hut is. How long in the same family.

Grandpa, father, grandson, a few cycles of that.

In the thirties, men fed their families this way.

My grandfather did.

From my Nightmare Last Night

a little exercise in symetrical digital manipulation

I don't know what this means. It was a cluster of stumps and bank

turned back by a bulldozer or something. The earth sitting

on its side at a crazy angle. What is crazy?

Can you take a funhouse mirror outdoors.

snow leopard dreams of snow on a warm day in September

I felt sad at how small a space he has and his mate has, that is her paw in the background.

Not being able to run over the space that is their range in the wild.

I felt lucky to see his beauty.