Manitoba’s Legislature

A surprise, whenever you go there and however many times you have been there already. Also, surprising is the ease with which you can go inside Manitoba’s government building with a camera, bag and tripod.

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No questions asked about the tripod, you just walk in. I guess that every photographer will be so much in awe inside the building that he will completely be protective about everything he sees.

Hoarfrost

Mother Nature’s way of showing you that if you calm down, you can attain beauty. Beauty of such a perfection that you will always ask yourself how it is done and how it could get like this.

Classic hoar shot

Add in some sunshine and keep out the wind and you’re in for a treat, photographically wise. Of course, the temperatures should also be a bit on the low side…

Sculptures in the twilight

It’s time to go and see the snow sculptures made for the Festival du Voyageur this year. One thing is sure, you won’t see the same next year!

Entrance musicians

Like every year, the level of skill to make these sculptures is very high. No collapsed sculptures this year…

People of the Festival du Voyageur

It is easy to go to the Festival du Voyageur and come back with loads of pictures of the snow sculptures. But the sculptures alone do not make it a festival.

Entrance

The sculptures are great as usual, this year none of them collapsed while I was there, that’s already a good start. At the entrance of Voyageur Parc the voyageurs look fierce and a bit grim.

Warming up? Not really ...

Canadian winters are cold. Don’t start complaining about that, they are supposed to be cold. After all we also have the North Pole on our territory. So when it is cold, and you have been skating on those frozen rivers for hours, what do you want to do?

Jelly Fish, 2011

Warm up! So this year again the City of Winnipeg organised an “Art and Architecture competition” with the theme of “Warming Huts“. Hmmm, let’s get warm together, shall we?