Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours and Workshops
How would a gorgeous, gigantic acrylic print of one of my grizzly bear photographs look hanging in your house or office? Or perhaps you’d rather win a trip for two to a grizzly bear viewing lodge in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, Canada? Raise your paw if you’d like to […]
The internet furor over Cecil the Lion and his killer, Walter Palmer, has subsided a bit this week, only to be replaced by a tragic wildlife situation south of the border in Yellowstone National Park. On Friday, August 7th (one week ago), 63 year-old Montana hiker, Lance Crosby, was attacked, killed, and partially consumed by […]
For any of you that have been living under a rock for the past few days, it may come as a surprise to learn that the internet’s latest sensation is not a Beiber or a Kardashian, but rather a Palmer. It seems while most of us were going on living normal lives and perhaps even […]
When Canon Canada’s Alberta rep Brad Allen called me up last Friday and said, “Want to test out the new Canon 5DsR body next week?” my answer was short and sweet and may have sounded something like, “Yes, please,” though with a little squeal of glee attached. The next best thing to getting free gear […]
As usual, it is a rant that gets me back onto my blog train. This time around, it’s the federal government’s announcement last Wednesday, July 15th, that the Bow Valley Parkway in Banff National Park is going to get a $67 million dollar facelift widening its shoulders to create a bike path between Banff and Lake […]
RANT time: great article in yesterday’s Red Deer Advocate illustrating just how devastating snaring is to wild wolves (http://tinyurl.com/pb6qht4). Imagine this gorgeous wolf slowly choking to death over the course of three or four days, because that’s exactly what happens thousands of times across Alberta each winter. The Red Deer Advocate reports that neck snares […]
WARNING: Extremely graphic images included below. After my recent posts about British Columbia and Alberta basically having an open season on wolves these days, perhaps it comes as no surprise to anyone that Alberta is playing host to a number of legal coyote-killing contests this winter. Kodiak Lake Hunting & Fishing’s 10th Annual Furbuster Coyote […]
Hired snipers. Deftly-skilled pilots. And dead wolves. Lots of dead wolves. 180 of them by the time the snow melts in British Columbia in two select areas, the South Peace and the South Selkirks. And the best part? You’re paying for it. That’s right, every single one of us tree huggers, conservationists, outdoor enthusiasts, hunters, […]
There it is on the Travel Alberta website: “Welcome to Alberta, home of the largest wolf cull in Canada, where the tax dollars our government gleans from your tourist visits pays for our hired guns to blast wild wolves from the sky, all in the name of psuedo-science.“ Oh, I’m sorry, apparently that’s not exactly […]
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 […]