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Banff National Park has once again failed to live up to its standards as a protected haven for Alberta’s threatened grizzly bears. On Saturday, May 28th late in the evening/night, a female grizzly bear was struck and killed by a speeding Canadian Pacific train on the edge of Lake Louise in the heart of the […]
I’m very pleased to announce the launch of my first ever eBook, How to the Photograph the Canadian Rockies: The Icefields Parkway – Wildlife Edition for Banff and Jasper National Parks. The eBook is available on its own or as part of a series on Darwin Wiggett’s How to Photograph the Canadian Rockies website. How […]
Sad news last week as yet another Banff grizzly bear was killed in the national park. I got news of the death the same morning that the bear was picked up off the Trans-Canada Highway and immediately started to try to figure out if I’d photographed it before. The park warden that retrieved the bear […]
Through the course of the year, I get a lot of emails and phone calls from fellow nature photographers that have questions about how I run my nature photography business — everything from how I got started, to how I make money self-publishing my own products, to how I price images for clients that want […]
On March 7, 2011, Banff’s Pipestone wolf family lost another member when Meadow, the smallest member of the pack, was run over and killed by a Canadian Pacific Railway train in the Bow Valley. I got the devastating news the day before I left for my holiday in Europe, with too little time to do […]
Two years ago when I first started following the new Pipestone (now Bow Valley) wolf family in Banff, Yoho, and Kootenay National Parks, I was fortunate enough to get a chance to name one of the pack members. Independent wolf researcher Gunther Bloch named the leading male and female and two of the six-month old […]
Hot off the newstands (and hot on the newstands), here’s a sneak peek at the Winter 2011 Outdoor Photography Canada cover, featuring my photo of Delinda the wolf. Winter 2011 cover image of Delinda the wolf This issue also marks the debut of my wildlife photography column, Wild Side, in the magazine, so check out […]
It’s official. I’m firing myself from my blog because of a broken promise. That’s right, in my first installment of Photographing Banff Wolves (Part I) three long days ago, I brashly pledged that you would be seeing a few of the photos from that encounter in Banff, along with the story behind those photos and […]
Happy New Year everyone! After a long hiatus (12 days) away from my camera, blog, and computer, I returned to looking for wolves in Banff and the mountain parks this week with a vengeance, spending five of the past seven days in the field all day searching for members of several different wolf families. That […]
When is it too cold to photograph? Not at a mere -34 degrees Celsius (-41 C/F with the wind chill), apparently. For the eleventh straight day, I got up at 6:30 in the dark and managed to massage my car’s stiff old bod to life, then hit the roads and trails for a day of […]