7,712 photographs, 32 videos, 2,221 kilometers driving, 103 kilometers snowshoeing, 2 wildlife photographers, 1 lost shoe, and a lifetime of stories: this is the initial tale of the greatest wildlife encounter of my career, my 15 days of glory with 2 lynx — a mother and her kitten. ———————————- The first day was the hardest. […]
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The first three words I blurted out were swear words. Which is fine if one is not in the middle of chatting on a walkie-talkie radio with paying clients on a photography tour. But I was…. And not only did I swear on the radio in front of paying clients, but I did so with […]
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After nearly two weeks on the road in Jasper National Park and beyond, I’m finally back in the office today full of tall tales and great new images from my first-ever officially unofficial ‘wolf photo tour’ with a few friends that happen to also double as some of my best tour/workshop clients. And while I’m […]
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As my self-proclaimed Wolf Week here on my blog and on my Facebook photography page winds to a close, I wanted to thank all of you for your support and feedback and offer up some final words as potential solutions to the problems wolves face in Alberta, British Columbia, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It saddens […]
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For months now, since I called for a tourism boycott of the Alaska Highway in response to a wolf kill contest going on in Fort St. John, British Columbia, I’ve been getting emails from people in northern British Columbia telling me just how bad their wolf problem is. According to some locals, the problem has […]
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Here it is. Are you ready for it? Indiscriminately killing wolves to control wolf predation on livestock is completely useless. There, I said it. The truth has finally been revealed! Now let’s put an immediate end to wolf culls, wolf kill contests, and the idiocy that accompanies so much of what’s currently going on with […]
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As part of Day 3 of Wolf Week here on my blog and on my Facebook fan page for John E. Marriott Wildlife and Nature Photography, I’ve decided to have my first contest of the week! Today’s contest is easy as pie, just submit a comment below (along with a way to contact you if […]
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I’m starting off Day 3 of Wolf Week without all the drama and bad news of Day 1’s wolf snare story and Day 2’s wolf kill contest update, and will instead be spending today talking about the many wolves I have gotten to know over the years and what they meant to me. I’ll begin […]
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When you feign ignorance, sometimes you get to hear the most interesting of stories. Like of how hunters kill wild wolves. Over the years traveling much of Canada, I have heard some real doozies, like of the time the guy in the Yukon told me how he chased a black wolf down with his snowmobile, […]
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Imagine walking along a trail near your house on a beautiful sunny day, your lovely dog racing along beside you darting in and out of every little trail having the time of its life. A dog being a dog. A perfect day! Now imagine being out on that walk and, suddenly, all goes quiet except […]
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