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 […]
Last month I featured the sandhill cranes I photographed in New Mexico a few Christmases ago. While I was in New Mexico, I secretly hoped to see a critter that had been on my bucket list for nearly 40 years. The animal I dreamed of seeing was the javelina (pronounced […]
When it comes to my appreciation of Christmas, I’m a real Scrooge, so every December I search for a photo destination to escape the crazy commercialism of the season. One Christmas a few years ago I settled on Bosque del Apache along the Colorado River in central New Mexico – […]
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 […]
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 […]
Two species of foxes live in the Canadian Arctic, the cosmopolitan red fox, which has the widest distribution of any wild mammal on Earth, and the circumpolar Arctic fox. Generally, the red fox lives in forests, while the Arctic fox lives on the tundra. In the past 50 years, however, […]
Here on the treeline in Wapusk National Park, a few tenacious spruce trees still manage to survive. I admit it, I’m a “leaf peeper”. Every year, like so many nature photographers, I excitedly await the colourful flamboyance of autumn. The French philosopher and Nobel laureate Albert Camus described the season […]
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 […]
Loons: Treasured Symbols of the North was published in October 2022. It compares the five species of loons in the world, four of which spend the summer months nesting in Canada. I had been thinking about writing a book on loons for nearly 50 years, starting in the early 1970s […]
It was -25°- when I took this photo of a bull muskox. The frost on his fur attests to the frigid temperature. Some of my fondest memories of arctic wildlife are so vivid that it seems I can still feel the wind ruffling my hair and hear the comforting songs […]
