Post Tagged with: "Wayne Lynch"

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“Pturncoat” Ptarmigan

The chicken-like willow ptarmigan, weighing less than a kilogram, has the largest circumpolar range of any of the world’s 19 species of grouse.  Its unwary nature makes this handsome bird one of my favorite subjects to observe and photograph. In North America, these hardy northern grouse are year round residents […]

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An Appetite for Alligators

When I am initially exploring an idea for a new book, I always start by asking myself three questions.  First, how many books have been written on the same subject? If there are many, it could be that the market is saturated. If there are none, or very few, I […]

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Autumn Salmon Celebration

Living in prairie Alberta I don’t do a lot of underwater photography but several decades ago I began travelling to the Adams River in southern British Columbia to photograph the spectacle of the sockeye salmon spawning season.  Every October, some salmon return to spawn in the Adams River, but every […]

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Aurora Borealis in Yellowknife, NWT

The birth of an aurora begins 150 million kilometres away, on the torrid surface of the sun.  There, continuous gigantic explosions, called sunspots, send showers of charged particles, (electrons and protons) hurtling into space and racing towards Earth, sometimes nearly at the speed of light.  Usually it takes 30 minutes […]

Inspiration

The “Friendly” Whales of Mexico

In the mid-1800s, the legendary American whaling captain Charles Melville Scammon accidentally discovered the narrow opening to a large sheltered lagoon along the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. What Scammon didn’t initially realize was that the lagoon was the largest of three such protected lagoons that eastern gray whales […]

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The Artistry of Ice

The S/V Rembrandt van Rijn under sail in Scoresby Sound, Greenland. Last August I was hired to guide a small group of photographers to eastern Greenland to capture the crystalline beauty of the region’s legendary icebergs.  Our destination was Scoresby Sound – one of the largest fiord systems in the […]

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Sally Lightfoot Crabs

The wave-battered shore where the crabs forage for algae. I wrote this month’s posting last June in the Galapagos Islands where I was lucky to be leading a photography tour focusing on the natural wonders of this, the most famous of archipelagos. Crabs of several species scuttle and scatter along […]

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Barred Owls

The map illustrates the westward range expansion of the barred owl since the 1880s. The barred owl (Strix varia), a native of North America, was originally a year round resident of the deciduous forests and swamps of the eastern United States and Canada. Beginning in the late 1880s, the owl […]

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The Pursuit of Pink

A chain of salty lagoons, fringed with dense mangrove forests, stretches along the northern coastline of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The hot, humid wetlands are a major stronghold for the American flamingo.  Thick forests of red mangroves grow along the edges of most of the brackish lagoons used by flamingos along […]

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Arctic Aurora & Autumn Caribou by Wayne Lynch

I’ve been photographing nature for a very long time, beginning a decade or so before Elvis left the building. In the years since then I became a fulltime profes- sional photographer and have led nearly 200 photo trips to exotic wildlife destina- tions on every continent. Until recently, I had […]