Have you ever heard that saying, “chance favors the prepared mind?” I think you would be hard pressed to come up with a better maxim for wildlife photography. In so many ways, wildlife photography is […]
Category Archives: Wildlife Photography
Questions and Actions: Digging Deeper
Questions & Actions You talk a lot in emails and issues of the Journal of how important it is to understand the biology and ecology of animals if you want to be a successful wildlife […]
Searching for Pegasus
Along the border of Montana and Wyoming lives a herd of wild horses unlike any other in North America. Their’s is a world that towers above the surrounding landscape high amongst the clouds. Known as […]
What’s More Important Than Your Subject?
Photographing birds in flight is more than just technical settings and knowing which auto focus area modes work best for the situation. There are techniques such as AF bumping and strategies for how and when […]
Wild Florida Video | the Photographers Journal
Wildlife photography along the Gulf Coast of Florida is an excersise in superlatives. This is a landscape of deep beauty and mystery. Ancient live oaks drip with Spanish moss amidst sable and cabbage palms. There […]
Searching for Bighorns in Wyoming
Last November I spent a month in Wyoming’s Wind River range photographing wildlife. The prime directive of this trip was bighorn sheep. With an especially warm autumn, the sheep were late to the party. However, […]
Photographing the World’s Largest Black Bears
In this episode, I head to the swamps of North Carolina and to a place known as the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula. This may be one of the coolest wildlife photography destinations you have never heard of. […]
North for Elk
Each year, I travel north in search of elk. Given that I live part of the year in Montana, home to some 50,000 elk, this may seem odd. With Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton […]
Teaching bears to fish
Of all the photos that I arrived back in my office with from my trip to Alaska, it was the series that produced this particular photo that is probably my favorite moment out of all […]
Coastal Wolves
For three mornings in a row, we had wolves come down to hunt salmon with the bears. Though I may call these creatures coastal wolves, as of yet, there is no proof that the species […]
Spirit of the Wild
What is it about bears that say “wilderness” to us? For North America, these are our super predator. Their reign is undisputed in the natural world. For me, there are few moments in life in which […]
The Voyage of the Red Knot
This past spring, I had the opportunity to spend a morning laying face down in the sand photographing red knots. This was a long time coming for me. For many years I have threatened […]
Chasing Patterns of Light
High up in the Canadian Rocky Mountains of Alberta, I found myself one morning on the hunt for moose. The moose here somehow are eclipsed by the fame of the elk rut. But coming […]
Wild Horses Out of the Fog
It never ceases to amaze me what I find along the beach in the morning. From old fossils washed up, to pieces of shipwrecks, beautiful shells, and even wildlife. This particular morning, I was heading […]
Green Jays of the Rio Grande Valley
Of all the birds in the United Sates, I might have to argue that this one, the green jay, is the most stunning, the most colorful, the most beautiful of them all. This is […]
Western Diamondbacks along the Rio Grande
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to escape what we like to call the mud season around Yellowstone. Mud season, that time of the year where the snow has melted in the […]
Rocky Mountain Arsenal
For the last couple of years, I have been on a quest for big mule deer bucks. Now, living in the West as I do, mule deer are absolutely everywhere. On every pasture, in every […]
Crocodiles of the Cuero y Salado Honduras
Floating down the Rio Saluda in a small native boat in Honduras, I found myself searching for crocodiles at high noon. This wasn’t exactly the time of day one expects to do any serious wildlife […]
Swimming Horses
Along the coast of North Carolina, there is a population of wild horses thought to be the oldest in North America. It was here where Western Civilization first crashed into mainland North America, and these […]
Story Trumps Everything
When is it OK not to see the eyes of your wildlife subject? When is it OK to photograph “butt shots?” When the story that the photograph tells is powerful enough to override just about […]