Hi, Frank and all. You folks in Toronto are really tough. It's only -16 in Yellowknife right now.
Of course, that's probably the warmest it's been since October. And we are just coming out of over a month of -30s and 40s. Kept shooting, though. Put half a dozen rolls through a Super Program, a Spotmatic and an LX. Next week I'm heading for the real Arctic. My job is taking me to Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk and Fort MacPherson, shooting 4x5 (or 6x7 if it's too cold) for some large photomurals. If there isn't a blizzard in Tuk I'll be heading out by skidoo (with a local guide) to shoot a big pingo in the Mackenzie Delta and ice pressure ridges on the Beaufort Sea. In Fort MacPherson I expect to hit the Mackenzie Mountains and perhaps some river valleys. Don't know yet whether it will be by skidoo or truck. Around Inuvik I'll be shooting the northern fringe of the boreal forest where trees are quite stunted and widely separated. I'm taking my -50 clothing for the gig. Odds are high that I'll at least hit some extreme wind chills along the way. I'm actually a long-time lurker on the PUG. Seldom have time to participate, but being this isolated it's nice to be able to keep in touch a bit. John ----- Original Message ----- From: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:51 PM Subject: Re: Experience with Super A/Program? > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:38:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > <snip> I've have given the cameras a pretty rough life. A lot of > time in the bush and on very rough, dusty roads, often in extreme > cold. > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > John Poirier > > Yellowknife,NWT,Canada > > Hi, John, > > I don't believe that we've met. As a matter of fact, I'm sure we > haven't, as I'd have recalled a member from Yellowknife. > > For any members who don't know, Canada's NorthWest Territories are > about as far north as it gets. > > I have to know. What's the temp up there right now. What's the low > for tonight? How about the high for the day? > > Down here in the deep south (Toronto), we're all whining because it's > going down to -25C tonight. > > BTW, welcome aboard. > > cheers, > frank > > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >
