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 …
Welcome back friends! This week’s photo story is all about winter wildlife. Here in Yellowknife things get pretty quiet in the winter in terms of wildlife as birds head south and bears hibernate. Animals that remain active and plentiful throughout winter months include red foxes, ptarmigan, and ravens. Once in a while I’ll get really lucky and spot a lynx, …
In the winter, ptarmigan are as common around these parts as seagulls are at the seashore. For a photographer, common means reliable! The Willow Ptarmigan is the largest and most numerous of the three ptarmigan species. Populations are cyclical in nature and there is usually a period of a few years where they are everywhere and then their numbers drop …
Hello and welcome to this week’s photo story. This week I’m sharing some images I got last year during an encounter with my most favourite animal: the coyote. Coyotes are one of the most adaptable animals in Canada and they thrive in urban environments because they take advantage of human complacency. They eat our garbage, scavenge leftover pet food, and …
Welcome back friends! This week I have some great photos from a winter road trip to Fort Providence where I had a chance to shoot some snow and frost-covered bison near the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary. I learned a little more about the sanctuary during my trip and thought I’d share it with you in this post. The Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary …