I finally had a chance to sit down and edit all my photos I took in Yellowknife and on the way up, rather then just editing one or two at a time. This means a busy Photo Phriday as rather then prolong the photos you're getting a huge dump of them all at once! By rather amusing coincidence the majority of these photos are all of the same thing: water, whiskey jacks and bridges!
All of the above photos were taken on the same day when my wife, mother, father and I went for a walk out to Cameron River Falls, a water fall some 45 km outside of Yellowknife. It's one of my favourite places to photograph because it doesn't take much to get out too but it's far enough off the beaten path that there's NEVER a lot of people out there. Anyweather, the walk out was fun and when we got to the falls we stopped for a little bit and to just enjoy their majesty (or something). We pulled out some snacks that mother had packed up for us and started to eat when we noticed some birds (whiskey jacks/grey jays specifically) eyeing our food. We threw a couple morsels their way and - surprise surprise - they hopped down to eat it.
Well Julia and I decided to get a bit closer to the falls (as you can literally get to within a few feet of them safely) so we go a wandering, whilst my parents keep occupied with the birds. A few unsuccessful photos and a better look at the falls later and we came back to find a couple people (STRANGERS!!!!) visiting with our parents and the birds literally eating out of their hands. Not to miss the opportunity, the above photos were the end result!
These photos are all of the bridge crossing the Mackenzie River, the
main only ground artery into Yellowknife. They were actually taken by request of a friend but I thought I'd post them here before I sent them off.
The bridge isn't actually finished yet but is, as you can see, getting fairly close to it. As such the ferry ride we took to get across the river will likely be ending soon. So I can proudly proclaim myself to be one of the final... 10 - 30,000 people to use the crossing. If the bridge finishes within the next year or two anyweather.
Alexandra Falls, just outside of Enterprise, NT - a small community about 2 hours from the border. No real story to go with these photos, the falls were just something I wanted to see and photograph, so on our way back home we did. Yay? Yeah!
Well that's it for this Photo Phriday, next week we'll get something completely different up and posted. Cheers!
