Joy

From the series Clarkson’s Farm, the sheer joy the cows experienced being let back into a grassy field after a winter in the barn, and Jeremy’s love of that joy, remind me so much of the times like this night.

An old friend, whom I met in Whitehorse a few years ago when he booked a daytrip with me to Kluane National Park, had now arrived in Yellowknife and before setting off on his own to explore other parts of the territory, had a night aurora chasing with me in Yellowknife first.

For his truly limitless joy photographing the beauty-sigh inducing scenery around the Yukon, it was almost nothing compared to the sheer joy of this night under the aurora.

A lot of nights, still, I feel more like the cows running freely out of the trailer back into the fields after a winter indoors, but there are a few nights where I get to take a little step back into my own bliss and just watch the overwhelming joy in others.