Manitoba is a cold place in winter. It’s not for nothing they say “cold as a Winnipeg winter”. You would expect everything to be gone or asleep during this period and only us humans running around looking busy.

If you look around in the right places, you may also find animals, doing the same thing. Times are hard in winter, and food is scarce. At least if nobody puts something outside for each to enjoy. So let’s take a look at what we can find during winter inside the Winnipeg Perimeter Highway…

Getting some fresh air here in Manitoba is not so difficult. You just have to stick your nose outside and you’re done. Even more so in wintertime, you just need to make sure that you get your nose back without frostbite.

Nah, it’s not that bad. For a few days/weeks during winter it is very cold. For the rest of the time, it’s a normal winter with temperatures in a comfortable –5 to –15C zone. But what is the best of winter in Manitoba? The fact that on each walk you take, you

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.

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.

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.

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…