Thank you for this wonderful thread!

Thank you Tayo .. .. for taking the time, to read and respond !!

Being creative involves using your imagination !!



Reflections can play a big part in being creative. Make use of them when possible !!

GREAT to see you back! I followed your thread every day!

Majik_Imaje wrote:
I have owned and built 16 color darkrooms.
I made a ton of money teaching complete rookies how simple it was / is to process gorgeous color enlargments.

How to shoot from the hip, without ever using a light meter.


A small portion of #15, in Kennewick Washington 1979

Well, doing it the old fashioned way, required GREAT SKILL to process film and prints to achieve a color corrected print. Now anyone can do it blind!

In 1983 after my second whale hunt, I decided to fly to Anchorage to process my film & prints. Using snow as a water source was just too time consuming and I had a ton of work to do to process hundreds of rolls of film and make the prints.

I rented an one room apt. and turned that into my darkroom !!



Now I had running water and I could process .. .. effectively and quickly !!

A semi-automatic print process for sheets up to and including 16 x 20.

What a mess !! eh ?.

Majik_Imaje wrote:
Well, doing it the old fashioned way, required GREAT SKILL to process film and prints to achieve a color corrected print. Now anyone can do it blind!



...wow...I beg to differ with the latter bit of that statement. In fact, I would argue that 99% of prints that people (not professionals in the print industry) create are not color corrected accuarately.

I enjoyed reading this, thanks for sharing

The ice is my domain. the temps are 20 - 50 below zero with strong winds.

we are located here in this image, some 7 miles out on the ocean ice pack, the ice has cracked, the lead has opened and animals will migrate through that lead opening.

this is why we have to be out here, long before it ever cracks open. How do they know where it is going to crack open ? In thirty years up here going out there.. I have yet to figure out .. .. how they know where to wait.



This is how we harvest FOOD, it sure beats waiting in line @ some grocery store, and it is much more exciting !

What a fantastic thread. I've been reading for hours, enjoying your stories and photos. Thank you for sharing all of this with us. The Inupiaq lifestyle is fascinating!

You mention that all parts of the animals are used. Nothing is wasted. With the seals above, I understand that meat is eaten and skin is sold or used to dress dolls. What about the bones, eyes, whiskers, and everything else?

Well I am so glad you have enjoyed this thread Ariel .. guess what ? You are in for a real treat because there is a 'sister' thread on another forum.

High in the Arctic.. Eskimo

The whiskers ? used as needles, eyes are eaten by some people. bones are used for many purposes in construction.

the skin for clothing, hats, pants, gloves, vests etc parky's seal skin is waterproof and very expensive.

These people waste 'nothing' !! everything has a purpose, yes it is a most fascinating life every day, to think I was originally sent here just for 3 weeks to do a quick job, but I fell in love with the Arctic, and 30 years later I am still here. I quit that companyas soon as my job was finished, I wasn't leaving .. .. I knew I had discovered PARADISE !!

These people are just so .. .. .. 'happy' !! .. ... & content ! No complaints.. that is the first thing I noticed, these people just never complain !! That's what struck me as so .. .. ODD.

Another thing that is odd, and noticable, is the constant absence of hands. !!!

Where are all the hands ?? Inside the parky to keep warm !!















My hands are always cold, even with gloves on or mittens. I have no idea how these children stay out and play out all day / night with no protection for their hands, but this is the norm. and I see it all day long, and it sure puzzles me, I sure wish I could do that, I am tired of cold numb fingers !!

Laurie was 17. Thanks for posting his picture.

Thanks for these wonderfully informative pictures. I particularly like the photo of the great grandparents, and am delighted to hear about the dental floss.

Fantastic story!!!!!!!

Thank you John, Sass Quatch, and 'FRANKSON' - thanks for correcting my error in Lauries age ! My oldest son - Isaiah was very close to Laurie and we still speak fondly about him !!

Great stuff,

I live in the Northwest Territories and Yukon for 20 years, and enjoyed to lifestyle of the north so much. The Inuit people are amazing. You capture them so well.

Great thread, thanks for posting

Thank you iamcdn & ShaneEngelking, I have spoken the truth / w/ photographs to show & tell of life in the far north regions of the Arctic. I have lived & loved here, for 30 years time, It has been a time of great morning / sadness / grief / loss of life & celebration over the years, so many people that I was so close to are gone. Died so young, Forever etched in my memory of a 'people' that are the GREATEST (oldest)hunters on the ENTIRE face of this earth.

Any of these (true) stories can easily be verfired in many ways !!

It is my GREATEST love and respect for the Inupiaq people .. .. that have LED ME, into this labor of love, to publish .. .. their story, I have been an observer in a most intimate way, that very few have ever had the honor and pleasure to become one with these Incredible Inupiaq People(s) of the Arctic !! I have lived and worked in almost every village up here, and in village after village, the people are so kind, generous, I could never ever leave this frozen, Far North remote paradise of ALASKA !! - 'nothing out there in the real world'.. .. has this SPIRIT !

I think these need to be in a book. How do you keep your chemicals from ruining?

Well I haven't used chemicals & paper since 1985, but is was simple to keep my chemicals from 'aging' .. I used GALLONS of chemicals and 100'S of sheets of paper DAILY !

I would go through 3 1/2 gallons (kit) of Kodak chemicals (prints) in about 2 or 3 days !

Wow what a great thread!!!! Perpetual sunset during the winter?

The sun goes below the horizon on November 17th, It does not come back above the horizon until Jan 24th.. But we do get some light (1 1/2 hours) each and every day, during this time.

No problem. Laurie is my 2nd to youngest brother & that picture of him is really cute.

Thank you 'Tanya' I think your really cute also !!