Are you tired of all the posts about foxes? Me neither! I am particularly fond of shooting foxes in the winter with the beautiful arctic light and the crisp clean backdrop of snow. Winter provides a fantastic opportunity to capture foxes in their majestic winter coats and observe mating behaviours. The family of foxes that I had a chance to …
Welcome to the Sunday edition of WildKnife Photo stories. In anticipation of Valentines day I thought it might be fun to have a look at love in the subarctic animal kingdom. As you know foxes and ravens are plentiful in and around Yellowknife and so it’s reasonable to assume that I would have an opportunity to see these animals displaying …
Welcome back! This week’s Sunday edition tells the story of the ptarmigan. They are one tough bird. Last winter we had an explosion of ptarmigan. They were everywhere and it seemed as though you couldn’t walk or drive anywhere without finding a cluster of these little snowballs. That’s why it was so odd to come across this one by itself. …
Happy Sunday! Last Sunday I showed you a a few shots of animals in love, or lust maybe! One of the animals that I love to photograph is foxes. (As if that wasn’t already obvious.) This is a story about a den in the middle of downtown. I’m not sure if it’s still being used but I guess we’ll find …
Happy New Year to everyone! Thank you all for your support over the past year. I am grateful for all of your likes, comments and shares and hope that the upcoming year will provide more opportunities to share my love of wildlife. This week I wanted to share some images I took during the Audubon Society’s Annual Christmas Bird Count …
Hello and welcome back! I hope that everyone had a wonderful relaxing holiday and shared time with friends and family. This week is the last story of 2017 and part two of the story we started December 17 all about black and white wildlife photography. In part one of this story we looked at how stripping away the colour from …
Hello friends! Welcome back to WildKnife Photography’s weekly photo story. This is part one of a two part story on shooting wildlife in black and white. Wildlife photos are usually in colour and most of the shots I take I process that way. Wildlife and landscapes are often rendered in colour because of the natural beauty and wonder of the …
Welcome! To get into the holiday spirit, my post this week is all about caribou. Every year a winter road is punched into the landscape meandering between frozen lakes and across the rocky tundra. The road is a lifeline to the diamond mines and truck after truck haul loads of equipment and supplies up to the mines. The road is …
The first time I ever saw an owl in the wild was just outside of Airdrie Alberta. It was March and I could just make out the feathered “ears” of a great horned owl nesting in an old craggy tree along a gravel highway. Two things struck me about that encounter: 1. Wow owls nest early. 2. She seemed unperturbed …
Hello friends, this week’s photo story is about grouse! Many animals are masters of camouflage which can make them difficult subjects to photograph. The grouse is no exception. From spruce grouse to ptarmigan these chubby little birds are masters of blending into their environments. Around Yellowknife we have a number of species of grouse including the spruce grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, …