Gimli fishermen

During the Thanksgiving weekend I was fortunate enough to hook up with a few seasoned fishermen who call Gimli their home port. I went out two mornings to witness (and help, yuck fish are slimy, especially when trying to handle a camera...) the tending of their single net, just outside the harbour. Harvey Benson, the owner of the boat, used to be a high school principal in Gimli over 25 years ago. He's been fishing with his friend, who was born in Newfoundland but found love in Gimli when he was stationed here when he was much younger, for over 25 years. Great bunch of guys! Harvey even taught me how to fillet a pickeral. I changed the photographs into black and white to give them a more timeless look. To see more shots of fishermen, go to Fishermen. Loons and landscapes can be found on my website as well.

Packing up the cabin

Well, the cabin season is officially over. Spent the last weekend doing all the mundane but necessary things to kiss the cabin good-bye til next May. My father lives at the cabin for 6 months of the year but our portion of the cabin still needs to be winterized and closed.

My father is restoring a 56 Thunderbird and had tried to get a welder out for numerous months prior to convincing my our friend Warren to help us out. So while we dragged boats out of the water, disconnected docks, winterized motors etc. Warren spent all his time trying to weld a new bottom onto the old top of the T-bird.

One of my favorite places to go is a bog about 2km from our cabin. It was created by a beaver dam and is a wrotting kind of place. It also is a fascinating place to catch interesting light, fog, and lots of dead stuff. I always go out there to capture something different.