This is the holiday collection print for 2004. It is a limited edition of 950 prints per size. It is printed on watercolor paper only, signed, numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

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"The stars and planets have fascinated us since we started looking up and outside of our narrow and primitive world of long ago. Stories were told and retold of mythical and, to some, not so mythical beings seen or imagined in the heavens.
Our own western civilization has passed on a story for two thousand years of an alignment of stars that led curious desert travelers to the birthplace of Christ.
Christmas Eve 2003 I set up a new camera just outside my bedroom on a balcony. Just after sunset the temperature was well below zero and the night was so clear and the stars so bright it made me dizzy. Now my camera and I would tell another story.
I pointed my wide-angle lens north, up and beyond my beloved Boundary Waters to a place I will never go, on past Churchill at Hudson Bay then straight up from the pole. The North Star would be my target. Also known as Polaris it hangs on the end of the Little Dipper. The earth’s axis points towards this heavenly anchor so as the globe rotates, the stars appear to move around it. For thirteen freezing hours my friend would stay awake and record circular tracks in this ultimate wilderness.
As I slept nearby, my camera did its magic and in the early morning darkness, delivered to me this gift." -Jim Brandenburg