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The Yellowknife Houseboat Community is located on Great Slave Lake, off the shores of Yellowknife. It is home year round to several families. They access their homes during the summer by boat and during the winter they access by driving a car or snowmobile across the frozen lake. During the autumn freezing and spring thaw of the lake, transportation becomes difficult as the ice can not support the weight of a car and can not be passed by boat. Photo was taken in late June 2021 under the midnight sun at 12:30 in the morning. The date stamp on my camera is still not set.
Life in the knife, everybody knows yellowknife stands for "the great northern lights", but nobody ever pays attention to its great landscape beauty, especially in autumn, when the colours are at peak, a great sunset kicks in, Yellowknife can become a magic and wonderful place.
Fun Fact--- The boat was used in the fictional television drama The Handmaid's Tale Season 4 Episode "Vows", portraying a vessel used by a humanitarian agency sending supplies to Chicago from Canada.
Just a snapshot with my iPhone. He landed beside me and snapped a quick photo. Yellowknife is well know for it large ravens which are deeply embedded in local culture representing a symbol of a trickster. These are amazing birds that survive some of the harshest weather conditions on the planet. In mid winter at -40c and colder you can see them with frost a covered faces. They really are a symbol of the ruggedness of this land.
We arrived on time, and the light arrived a little late, but when we set up all the lighting and compositions, it cooperated very well, this is Yellowknife, the best place to view aurora borealis on the planet, no doubt
This fall in Yellowknife, me and another 6 photographers observed a truly amazing light, pretty much like a phoenix, flying over the tundra.
The ptarmigan, I think is the only animal that migrated south to Yellowknife for the winter, where temperatures can drop to -50c in the winter months. They spend the summer months far north of us in the tundra and when the winter months arrive they migrate south to the tree line. During the winter months it is common to see flocks of ptarmigan walking around the roads of Yellowknife and then as spring approaches they head north again. There is a common bumper sticker on cars in Yellowknife that says, “I brake for ptarmigan” because often they are all over the road and people will slow down and stop.