February in Sasakatchewan
Cold minimalism on the Canadian Prairies
This was my seventh trip to photograph on the Prairies in winter since my first winter trip in 2015. The Prairies (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) are notoriously cold in winter, so these trips are often pretty challenging, but I keep coming back because the wide-open spaces of the Prairies in winter can be a minimalist paradise.
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Winter Prairies 2022
This was my first trip after the pandemic and I returned to my favourite place - the Prairies in Winter
When I wrote the blog post about my trip to Antarctica in March 2020, the pandemic had just begun (I arrived back from that trip just two weeks before lockdown). At that time I didn’t know when I’d travel again, but I finally got the chance two years later, in February 2022.
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Winter Prairies
A trip through Manitoba and North Dakota to photograph ice fishing huts and winter scenes.
Before I even left on this trip to Manitoba, I had some doubts. Lakes and rivers hadn’t completely frozen (see screen grab from IG of someone going through Lake Winnipeg just a week before I got there) and there was little snow in Manitoba.
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Photographing Grain Elevators and Winter Scenes on the Prairies
A fourth winter trip to the Prairies (Alberta and Saskatchewan)
As I set off for my fourth winter trip to the Prairies, in December 2017, things didn’t look good in terms of snow levels. If you look at that Snow Depth map from the day before I left, the brown area in eastern Alberta and western Saskatchewan with no snow was exactly where I was going. I had done a similar trip in December 2016 when there was also very little snow in Saskatchewan, and a bit more in eastern Alberta. Well, there is nothing I can do about it, I thought. I’ll just have to make the best of what is there. I dream about heavy snow and wonderful minimalist images, but sometimes you get just a few centimetres and, still, I think there are interesting images to be made.
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