Yellowstone National Park. It is the holy grail of wildlife photography in North America. Our Serengeti, if you will. And so it should come as no surprise to all of you to know that I have been avoiding Yellowstone like the plague for the past twenty years. Uh, say WHAT?!? That’s right, for the past […]
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Today I went out and dropped a few thousand dollars on a big lens. And despite all the hullabaloo over my two-part hands-on review of both the Canon 400mm f2.8 II and the Canon 600mm f4 II that I took for extensive test drives in December and January, I did not get either. Instead, I […]
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Way back in December, I had the pleasure of getting to test drive two of Canon’s behemoth super telephoto lenses: the Canon 400mm f2.8 II and the Canon 600mm f4 II. My initial findings were more favourable towards the 600mm, but I left off that review boasting that I had just opened a shiny new […]
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As we wind down towards Christmas and the start of a new year, I thought I’d throw out a quick note about what’s left for those of you interested in joining me on a wildlife photography tour or photo workshop next year in 2013. I currently have one spot that’s just come available (due to […]
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Long lenses. Wildlife photographers waste their days dreaming of long glass like teenage sports stars waste theirs dreaming they’ll one day be playing alongside Sid, Kobe, or even Lionel. The sight of them (the lenses AND the stars) is enough to make grown men (and women) weep for joy. And so it almost seemed unfair […]
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As many of you already know from my many posts back in November, a raven image of mine called “Fluff-Up” won a top prize in the BBC’s 2012 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards. What I didn’t realize at the time was how much attention the raven would get after-the-fact as one of the showpiece […]
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Hi everyone, this will be the first in a series of blog posts leading up to December 5th, which just happens to be the deadline for submitting comments to the BC government regarding its Draft Management Plan for the Grey Wolf in British Columbia. As many of you already know, I’ve put my heart on […]
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Hi everyone, I’m taking a short break from all of this wolf news (there is much more to come) to give you a peek at the first few images I’ve edited from my November polar bear trip to Nunavut, Canada in the Canadian Arctic. A polar bear eyes my group from about 60 meters away, […]
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The Vancouver Sun has just published an article about my blog post this morning calling for a tourism boycott of the Alaska Highway after a controversial wolf kill contest in northeastern BC came to light earlier today. “Wolf-kill contest in Peace River prompts call for tourism boycott of Alaska Highway” headlines the article by writer […]
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An open letter to Rich Petersen, retired owner of Re/Max Action Realty in Fort St John, B.C. from John E. Marriott, owner of Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours in Canmore, AB, a prize winner in the 2012 BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, and contributing editor to Outdoor Photography Canada magazine. Sent on Tuesday, November […]
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