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…

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!

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