When I found out Quark Expeditions was looking for a blogger/writer to document their June 2011 Arctic expedition to the North Pole, I typed in an entry faster than I could refresh the contest page…

Winter is here…

I didn’t take a single photograph over Thanksgiving though I had good intentions. My goal was to play with both fixed lenses – 50mm and 35mm – over the break, shooting everything in sight, but it never happened. The camera never left its bag, and for the first time in a really long time, I didn’t care.