Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours and Workshops
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 […]
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, […]
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?!? […]
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, […]
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” […]
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 […]
Sometime in April 2011, the Pipestone/Bow Valley wolf family in Banff National Park welcomed seven new tiny bundles of joy into their world. Six blacks, one grey, all adorable. Each of the pups grew to an age where they started popping out of the den and eventually even moving away […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]