Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada – 17-21 FEB 2010

What's more fun then a barrel of monkeys? To Tinky Winky, a bin full of Olympic mascots.

We arrived in Whitehorse just as the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race was ending.

It starts in Fairbanks and ends in Whitehorse.

This is my "time travel" shot...vintage train station with futuristic transportation.

I was hoping to photograph the aurora borealis but it turns out it is a lot like whale watching...you pay your money and take your chances. They come in cycles, and this was a low period. This is what I saw...the moon.

We dressed in rented outfits, rode out to the woods, and had the choice of sitting in an over-heated tent cabin (sometimes filled with too many people)...

sit around a campfire...

or stand in the snow waiting for the show, which never appeared. The second night I got bored and decided to play with making ghost pictures.

I had done this with film, 30 years ago and was curious if I could do it with a digital capture. Basically, you put your camera on a tripod, make a timed exposure in a dark place and then have a person walk through the scene, with a small amount of light hitting them. There are two heads but one body.

Here's my 1976 ghost shot (worked better with film):

Even without the Northern Lights, there were picture-postcard images everywhere.

TW with the S.S.Klondike, one of the largest sternwheeler that used to frequent the area.

SS Klondike

The MacBride Museum

 Skyscraper Trading PostYukon

Wildlife Preserve: 

  TW didn't mind playing with dead animal parts...

...and neither did Kate.

I was getting into the shapes and textures.

And just enjoying all the sites:

And of course TW made friends everywhere we went: