Some favorite snapshots from 2018
While teaching a wildlife photography class at the International Wolf Center we take a number of breakout sessions while the wolves are active. This gives us an opportunity to practice what we’ve learned. Here a child has just walked up to the window to get a closer look at Ambassador Arctic Wolf, Axel.
Out scouting for John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon locations, we came across this handsome red fox as it rested along the forest edge.
Canada Goose photographed during our never-ending winter!
Is there anything cuter than watching black bears play? These three are probably the tiniest I’ve photographed to date.
Seems if little critters aren’t playing, they’re resting. The two on the left soon bounded into action!
Making the time to watch this grizzly mom teach her little one how to live in a park filled with danger and opportunity, filled many days of the past three and half years.
An evening hike around Indian Pond provided the perfect foreground for this autumn sunset.
Three juvenile Great Gray Owls were flying around the meadow this September morning. Deciding where to set up the camera and tripod in a direction you’d like them to land is one thing, having them choose that perch is quite another. Sometimes… you get lucky!
Forty-six hours waiting at a badger den, with this nocturnal family coming into view for exactly 46 of those minutes. Visualizing shots comes easy when there is so much time to kill. This one, with fresh morning dew and the entire family of
One afternoon while driving the interior road of Grand Teton National Park, the sun rays were streaming through the clouds and bathing the mountains in this ultra soft light. Almost every car pulled over. Folks got out to make an image of what we were all witnessing. Some simply shot with their cellphones, while others drug out their tripod, cable release, and set up for what looked like a full-fledged photo shoot! My friend Todd had pulled over and made his way up the road, so I added him to one of my shots. To me, the human element adds to this image, since it is a large part of what was happening all around.
In addition to individual images, there is often that entire scene that plays out before you. The sun was getting low in the valley as I stopped to watch some bison spar in the distance. This was the third challenger that came along. Seems he had a bit more energy to expel after his loss.
Looking forward to what 2019 will bring!