He also drove the Mackenzie Ice Road to Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea at three occasions and explored by sailboat the remote, uninhabited fjords of Labrador.
His solo photo exhibitions travelled across four continents while his 17 books, ranging from coffee-table pictorials to a collection of essays from Northerners, have sold worldwide.
For two years, with his Volkswagen Beetle, he travelled the back roads from Montreal to Port Hope visiting the one-room schools.
[2] Later in 1963, Blohm found a job at Photo Features Ltd doing contract work for the Ottawa Citizen and operating the very first wire service in Canada (which had been set up for one of their clients, the Toronto Star).
Blohm's recognition earned him numerous major photo assignments from architects, high technology sector, government departments, galleries, etc.
The Canadian Army Corps of engineers set up the bridge across the Eagle River on the unfinished Dempster Highway in winter 1976-77.
Blohm's first assignment in the Canadian North occurred in Pond Inlet in 1979 when he was given the opportunity to photograph a gathering of Elders coming from all corners of Baffin Island.
[2] He was present at several of the meetings where the negotiations took place; the Agreement in Principle in Igloolik; the contract signing with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Iqaluit; the Royal Assent signing at Coppermine (Kugluktuk); the unveiling of the Nunavut flag in Iqaluit during the April 1, 1999 celebration marking the official creation of the Nunavut Territory.
[1] Blohm also obtained assignments from Makivik Corporation, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) and Canadian Geographic to photograph various people of the Arctic.
[2] Blohm's book based on his experiences with northern people, The Voice of the Natives - The Canadian North and Alaska, took three decades and was originally published in English and German.
Blohm supported his camera with a solid gold bar while working deep within the main vault of the Royal Bank of Canada.
Mitel commissioned their first backlit mural (six panel 14’ long and 10’ high) in a two-story-high mirrored wall used to create a panoramic array at its main reception lobby.
Blohm was commissioned to produce nine more murals that hung in Ireland, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., Florida, Bromont, Quebec, etc.
The book traces the evolution of technology from early pebble to computers through information storage devices such as the Phaistos Disc in Crete, Stonehenge, and medieval calculators.
[7] For Science North in Sudbury, Ontario Blohm photographed thin slices of various rocks containing minerals in polarized light and darkfield.