Backlight Grizzly and Puffins in Flight- Images from Alaska
Here are some images from this past month from the Alaska Peninsula. In the past few years, I have learned to get more excited about photographing bears in backlight, than the traditional...
View ArticlePolar Bear Season Once Again! Churchill, Manitoba
Its so great to be back in Churchill, Manitoba starting another season of polar bear trips! The first trip was great, as I guided a group from Houston Zoo, organized by Peter RIger, The zoo’s Director...
View ArticleThe Aurora Strikes Back! Incredible Displays Illustrate Solar Flare Peak
Things got pretty wild during the last weeks of polar bear season this year. Blinding blizzards lashed the region, dangerous wind-chills reached 50 below zero, and ice formed much earlier than normal...
View ArticleNorthern Lights Photo Expeditions- Timelapse and Images
In February and March I was thrilled to guide 3 back-to-back Northern Lights Photography Expeditions for Natural Habitat. For me, photographing Aurora borealis, is equally as exciting as photographing...
View ArticleWatching Bears Grow Up in The Grizzly Maze. Katmai 2013 Season Highlights
Another amazing season of bear viewing has recently finished. The late summer rain falling outside encourages me to stay inside and begin editing some of my images, and reliving some of the summer’s...
View ArticlePolar Bear Fight Club
Well it is that time of year again. I am heading up to Winnipeg, Manitoba to begin another awesome season of polar bear viewing expeditions in Churchill, Manitoba. I recently edited and posted some...
View ArticleRaven’s Eye View of the North, Churchill Helicopter Expedition
Larry Hoelzeman scans the boreal forest for moose and polar bears from a helicopter over Wapusk National Park, and Cape Churchill. I recently finished guiding my first Ultimate Churchill Expedition,...
View ArticleChurchill 2013 Bear Season Photography Highlights- Mothers, Cubs, landscapes...
This is one of my favorite images I took during the epic 2013 polar bear season. I used a low aperture of f4 to achieve a shallow depth of field, so the mother bear’s face is sharp, and her tiny 1 year...
View ArticleFilming Grizzlies with Gopros In Alaska
Two summers ago I was hired by the BBC to guide the film crew for a production called the Great Bear Stakeout. My main assignments were tracking the monster male bear we call Van, tracking wolves and...
View ArticlePhotographing China’s Wild Side- Panda Images
I am in Beijing getting ready to start a new Photography Trip and working on images from the previous trip. Due to great weather, lush backgrounds, and our chance to visit 3 separate panda breeding...
View ArticleView Recorded Katmai Bear Viewing Webinar
I recently did a 1 hour webinar, or live, online, narrated, slideshow on the expeditions I guide for Natural Habitat Adventures on the coast of Katmai National Park, Alaska for viewing coastal brown...
View ArticleAwesome Katmai Bear Film With NHA Guide Drew Hamilton
Drew Hamilton is obsessed with bears, plain and simple. He currently guides expeditions in Kodiak-Katmai for Coastal Grizzlies, and in Churchill for polar bears in the fall and aurora in the winter...
View ArticleThe Sun Bear Hero Of Sabah
In only the remotest and truly pristine corners of the southeast Asian rainforests live one of the most amazing, misunderstood, and endangered, of the worlds eight bear species. This is a special...
View Article2015 Photography Highlights- Churchill Sunsets and Polar Bear Moms and Cubs
This past polar bear viewing season in Churchill, Manitoba was a huge success. Many photographers and guides said it was one of the best seasons they could remeber. Cold weather came early and...
View Article2015 Photography Highlights- Polar Bears kill Seal In Churchill
This past Halloween Day I witnessed a macabre and bloody scene on the icy shores of Hudson Bay- two male polar bears consuming a bearded seal. It was one of my all-time highlights of 11 years guiding...
View ArticleNatural Habitat Adventures Sponsors Sun Bear Conservation
I had a two-week gap between guiding trips in China and Borneo for Natural Habitat Adventures this past April and I could think of no better to spend the time than to support the Bornean Sun Bear...
View ArticleSparring Grizzlies and Upgraded Gear
I haven’t posted in a while for a few reasons, first is I was guiding grizzly expeditions for Natural Habitat Adventures for almost 2 months with no internet access, and second I have decided to...
View ArticleNevada- The Other Last Frontier
To complete our move from Alaska to the Ozarks my wife and I hauled our most valuable items (a totem pole from Wrangell, whale bones and glass balls from the beaches of the Alaska peninsula, guns and...
View ArticleTree-Crabs, Sun Bears and Flying Frogs- Photo Highlights From Borneo
I have started guiding the second fall expedition to Borneo for Natural Habitat Adventures. The first one was my most spectacular trip so far, as the trips just keep getting better and better. I am...
View ArticlePolar Bears and Ravens in Black and White [Photos]
People often ask me if bears are color blind and the answer is no, they can see in color like humans, which really helps them locate certain types of vegetation and berries when browsing. Other...
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