Watched Wild Caribou Move Through Last Night

Theresie and I were out around Meladine river last evening. I took a couple more test shots for my developing today. It was close to where people get river water to drink. Mmmm so good.

Theresie Tungilik was looking at the plants and landscape getting ideas for her up coming drawings and wall hangings. Then we went up to the Elders Cabin. The Elders Cabin has windows all around it. Great place for elders and tourist to see out on the land and be protected from the wind.

Unfortunately the windows are still all boarded up so you cannot be inside looking out.

Theresie was looking across Meladine and spotted the caribou first. Not one caribou or a couple … just a long flowing heard. Which kept coming and coming with new caribou after caribou.

Small ones, brown ones and some with huge… huge antlers.

We watched this priceless show for an hour from start to finish.

The caribou moved through quickly. They had a good side wind to keep the mosquitoes and flies off of them. And if some caribou did go into the swampy big time bug areas they soon ‘went nuts’ running and shaking their heads. They would be covered with bugs within seconds.

The Caribou lose their winter coat of hair and replace it with a fall coat. It usually happens right in the middle of bug season.

Then it was all over.

The land looked different without the Caribou. It was all back to the same beauty it’s been giving off for years.

Today is warmer and sunny with little wind. It looked like last night the Caribou were heading for the coast to be cool and sort of get a rest from the bugs.

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Written by Jimmy MacDonald on July 12th, 2006 with no comments.
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What a week Web Host and Wordpress

Hi Fans

I’m finishing up my wifes website and blog.  And hope to get out this weekend to Clamspot.  A lovely magical place to photograph.

Theresie’s web site had been down and off line for a long time.  To make it easy to get her site up and going, she’s hosting with Bluehost   It’s the same host used by this site… you are on now. 

Wordpress blog was installed because it’s easy to install and get going. 

 Picked up a lot of plugins for the Blog.  Pluglins are little scripts created by various people world wide to make your blog work even better and snazier.

You can download the script to put on your website here at Wordpress.org Or for a hosted Wordpress Blog if you don’t have a website use this link Wordpress

Have a fun weekend.  Watch next week for exposures and film used this weekend.  It’s bright.  Very bright.  Sea is bright with white ice still.

The kicker is it’s always very windy of 20, 35, 65 k blowing wind.  Camera vibration does come through with very long exposures.

Cheers.

 Jimmy MacDonald

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Written by Jimmy MacDonald on June 23rd, 2006 with no comments.
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Hi fans

Thank you for dropping by.  I’m discovering how to use wordpress blog.  And soon will have this rocking with black and white 4×5 film phography.

I’m off on the land this afternoon to photograph.  It’s very sunny and deep blue summer no cloud skies.

Enjoy looking over the  Jimmy MacDonald website

Get yourself signed up to my ezine.  It’s for you to know first when things happen and when my 2006/07 prints will be ready.  Which will be printed in limited numbers… so it’s to your advantage for you  to know first.

Talk with you soon.

Cheers.

Jimmy

Written by Jimmy MacDonald on June 12th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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