Animals Galleries

Black Bear : All Black Bear (Urus americanus) images were photographed at Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary near Orr, MN. This is one of the best places in North America to photograph Wild Black Bears in their native habitat. For the last 12 years I have been conducting three day photography workshops, visit Field Notes/Workshops/Classes. For more information on VSWS visit: www.americanbear.org

Black Bear

Grizzly Bear : All of these images in this gallery of Alaskan Brown Bear (Urus arctos) were taken at Katmai National Park, AK. I generally use the term "Grizzly" (Urus arctos horribilis) which is a sub-species of the Brown Bear. If a person is willing to camp at Brooks Lodge at Katmai National Park, I would consider Katmai NP to be the most cost effective spot to view and photograph this magnificient and powerful animal.

Grizzly Bear

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Updated: Jun 11, 2009 8:33am PST

Big Horn Sheep : Growing up in Montana I have always had a passion for Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis). Over the years I have made several trips back to my home state to photograph Bighorns. I consider the best time to photograph Bighorns to be during the rut which is the reason most of my images are taken from the middle of November to the first week of December. Most of these images were taken in SW Montana.

Big Horn Sheep

Whitetails : Ever since my youth I spend several days every year pursuing Whitetail deer (Odocoileus virgianus), generally from a tree stand with bow in hand. Although I am still a dedicated bowhunter, I now spend a considerable amount of time every year with my camera trying to capture images of a trophy buck or a frolicking spring fawn. I do enjoy taking portrait images of the magnificient whitetail, but my preference is to capture images of whitetail behavior especially in the fall during the breeding season. Many of these images will show some of that behavior.

Whitetails

Canine : Its like alot of things in life, sometimes a person just gets lucky. I found this fox den while out scouting for wildflowers to photograph, I spent several days with this family of kits. While sitting in our blind photographing Prairie Chickens a Coyote happens to come into the lek and gives us photographers opportunities to capture several images of him before he exits the lek. But I still say, the more hours in the field the "luckier" a photographer becomes!

Canine

Other : Animals in this gallery are of speices that I have only a few images or species that I just do not pursue very often. Hopefully someday Minnesota Moose will have its own gallery!

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