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Canadian Geographic Cover – Wolf Photo

News and Notes for January 2015 – Happy  New Year everyone! I left on holidays on December 20th and got back into the office last week and it seemed like the world devolved more than just a little bit in the short time that I was away. I returned to Canada to news of a coyote killing contest in Alberta Beach near Edmonton, of an extended wolf cull in north-central Alberta, and of a newly proposed wolf cull in two separate regions of British Columbia. And as many of you already know, I don’t usually sit around and let news like this waft past with me without first giving it the sniff test. If it smells like sh*t, then I’m usually on it trying to toss it out the door, so stay tuned this week for a number of blog posts regarding wolf culls and predator killing contests and what you can do to help.

In the meantime, I wanted to quickly catch you all up on a few tidbits from the past few months. For those of you in Canada, you can see my work on the cover and interior of the latest Canadian Geographic magazine on newsstands now throughout the country. The feature article is a timely piece about the state of wolves in Canada, titled “Beauty or Beast: Exploring our Love-Hate Relationship with the Wolf.

Cover photo of the January/February 2015 Annual Wildlife Issue of Canadian Geographic magazine

There’s also an interesting blog entry on the Canadian Geo site that talks about how they chose the cover image out of the three images they had narrowed it down to (fortunately for me, all three choices were photos of mine for the second time in three years for the Annual Wildlife Issue).
Canadians can also catch my work on the cover of the November-December 2014 issue of Canadian Wildlife magazine, along with an article inside featuring my photos of Littlefoot, the grizzly bear that got a new lease on life courtesy of the Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter in British Columbia last spring. Canadian Wildlife‘s sister magazine for kids, WILD, also published an article featuring my photos of Littlefoot in their December-January 2015 issue.
Canadian Wildlife magazine featuring a photo of mine from one of my grizzly bear photo tours

In British Columbia and Alberta, those of you that fly with Hawkair, Central Mountain Air, or Northern Thunderbird can catch a full feature written and photographed by me in their excellent in-flight magazine Northern Routes. And since not all of you are in BC or Alberta, here’s a pdf of the article, A Visit to Remember, about the contest winners of my fundraiser last spring for the Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter.

A Visit to Remember, the winners of last year’s fundraiser get to visit the Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter!

And finally, for those of you in the United States, I’ve started working with Ranger Rick magazine again and you can find an image of mine on the back cover of the December/January 2015 issue.

Back Cover of the current issue of Ranger Rick magazine (sorry about the quality of the scan!)

Note that I recently had a cancellation on my Jasper Wildlife Photography Workshop from February 17th-22nd in Jasper, Alberta, Canada, opening up one spot. If you’re interested in learning how to track and photograph wildlife with me and a small group of like-minded photographers, then please check it out and let me know if you’re interested in attending. The cover shot of Canadian Geographic magazine above was taken on this workshop in 2014!

Want to photograph giant bighorn rams with me? Check out the opening on my February workshop.

Thanks everyone, good luck in the New Year and stay tuned for lots of wolf news in the coming days.

John

6 Comments on “Canadian Geographic Cover – Wolf Photo

Mac McMillen
January 21, 2015 at 9:14 pm

Congratulations, John! Great looking images, without a doubt. Fantastic that your work is on the cover of Canadian Geographic!

On a completely different note, think you will ever post your post-processing workflow? Highly interested in how you go about processing your excellent images.

Thanks, and again, congratulations!

Mac

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JohnEMarriott
January 21, 2015 at 9:20 pm

Thanks Mac. Hopefully soon as part of a new ebook!

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Gloria Rodriguez
January 21, 2015 at 9:38 pm

Unas fotos preciosas.

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Fain
January 21, 2015 at 11:15 pm

I love all your work! Thank you for your wonderful photos and your big heart for wildlife!
Fain

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Rodolfo Sánchez Ochoa
January 22, 2015 at 3:01 am

Very beautiful pictures of Mother Nature. I hope efforts like yours indeed help to save these gorgeous forests and creatures. And also I hope to make a little support for them, with my voice, my pages…

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Nicole
January 22, 2015 at 6:09 pm

Congratulations! And thanks for not only bringing the wilderness into people's homes through your photos, but also for walking the talk through the advocacy work you do.

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