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*Don Komarechka is a nature & landscape photographer located in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Don is no stranger to cold winters. From auroras to pollen, insects to infrared, much of Don’s photographic adventures reveal a deeper understanding of how the universe works. Snowflakes are no exception.

Don began studying the science of snowflakes the same day he first photographed them, nearly four years prior to the publication of this book. Since then, snowflakes have been a non-stop passion.

Each one of Don’s snowflake images is photographed on an old black mitten at his home. Barrie, Ontario is known for higher levels of winter precipitation, making it a great location to capture hundreds of beautiful specimens.

Always science-minded but never formally trained, Don uses photography as a way to explore and understand the world around him. Photographing something unusual or unknown is the perfect excuse to learn something new.

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“nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

-henry david thoreau

Nov27

the beginning.

Posted on November 27, 2023 by beth

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here comes the snow, tiptoeing in –

the beginning of a very long season ahead

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“the beginning is always today.”

-mary shelly, author of frankenstein

Feb12

*yoopers.

Posted on February 12, 2023 by beth

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It took a month to make some of the incredible snow sculptures that were part of the annual Michigan Technological University Winter Carnival. Phi Kappa Tau extended its winning streak to five years with a huge rendition of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. (Photo: Daniel Staelgraeve | Michigan Technological University)

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what you do in the winter (and sometimes in may),

when you go to college in the upper peninsula of michigan

* yooper – a native or inhabitant of the upper peninsula of michigan

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“i wrote, and sometimes, when i was stuck, i hit the road.

i ate pasties in the upper peninsula and hush puppies in cairo.

i did my best not to write about any place i had not been.”

– neil gaiman

Feb1

mo’ snow.

Posted on February 1, 2023 by beth

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downtown snowman, safe and sound

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“snowfall rouses your inner child to dream and play once more.”

-angie weiland-crosby

Jan26

naliqqaittuq.

Posted on January 26, 2023 by beth

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snow day yesterday at last

a really good day to stay home from school

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Inuit in Canada’s North have their own unique names for the months of the year. Aseena Mablick, an announcer for CBC Nunavut’s Inuktitut-language radio program Tausunni, has been collecting information on the names of the months in Inuktitut for years.

Mablick says one of the reasons she’s sharing this now is to “keep the language.”The names in Inuktitut are interconnected with the environment and wildlife surrounding the Inuit in Canada’s North.”It’s a truthful and honest calendar for people who are living over here, everyday, like us,” she says. “We just follow mother nature’s ways for naming the calendar.”

Each region in Nunavut has its own unique names for the calendar, and Mablick shared with us just two of the regions she’s looked into — Baffin region (also known as the Qikiqtaaluk Region) and Nunavik (northern Quebec).

January In Nunavik, January is “Naliqqaittuq”, literally meaning “nobody’s able to compete with it,” says Mablick. “It has to do with the coldest weather in that month.”

January is called “Qaummagiaq” in the Baffin region. It means “bright day coming back.”