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Selected photos from Yellowstone

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Grizzly bear cruising. I took this photo in April

Grizzly bear cruising. I took this photo in April 2019. It was the first day I saw a grizzly up close that year, and it would be a bear I would see frequently in 2019. I wonder if he will roam the same big area in 2020 again. The bear later swam the Yellowstone river, and then crossed the road again to head further East.
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A moose crossing. This is a photo from last Novemb

A moose crossing. This is a photo from last November, when two big bull moose came through a large meadow to cross the road. It was a cold morning, and you can see this big bull’s breath. It was already later in the morning, and with a few steps the moose disappeared into the thick trees. .
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Otter chills! This otter was ready for the weekend

Otter chills! This otter was ready for the weekend. It came out of the water and was grooming itself and then would just playfully lay down for a while. Otters are so cute! And one of the best hunters in Yellowstone. There’s a lot of open water currently, so hard to come by lately, but always such a delight to see them when you do..
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Surprise sighting! I was beyond thrilled when my f

Surprise sighting! I was beyond thrilled when my friend @taylorthomasalbright said he had seen a big owl earlier in the day. I suspected it to be a great horned owl, but when he showed me the photo my heart started racing: the magnificent great gray owl! I went to try find it, and eventually got lucky and was able to take some photos, including this one.
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Coyote’s yawn. I was locked in the park yesterda

Coyote’s yawn. I was locked in the park yesterday, and of course, didn’t think that was a bad thing at all. The snow fall was absurd, and my windshield wipers at times could not hold up. They closed to road from Tower to Mammoth, and thus me and a handful of cars were at it by ourselves.
It was a slow day for wildlife, but I saw quite some horned larks flying and landing, and as most mammals were in hiding, I decided to lay on the side of the road hoping they would land where I could photograph them. The freezing temperatures made the minutes count, and no larks would ever land at a photographable distance. Just as I was about to cross over the road back to my car, this coyote came over the snow bank, shortly after followed by another one. I kept laying quiet and took some photos. The coyotes obviously had been sleeping. Shortly after they crossed the road and laid themselves next to some bison and enjoyed the sun that suddenly had broken through the clouds. .
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The band (of trees). Since my friend David told me

The band (of trees). Since my friend David told me about his favorite tree in the park, I have always stopped with my clients to take some photos of it. I then tell them I call it’s “David’s Tree”. This then leads to online ‘arguments’, as other people like that tree a lot too. I can’t blame them, because it is a nice standing tree. Like a dancer, or the lead singer of a band. Who else has a favorite tree in Yellowstone?
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Wakey wakey! I took this photo late April 2019. La

Wakey wakey! I took this photo late April 2019. Lamar Valley was desolate, and the snow was falling heavily. A sow and a cub were foraging on the hills, and whenever visibility let me, I would watch them. Sitting in my car, looking at my phone, as the snow storm intensified. Then, the weather turned for the better, and I did not see the bears anymore. I pick up my binoculars, scout the hills, but can’t spot hem again. I blink with eyes, once, twice, and suddenly the two bears show up coming towards the road. I open my window, and manage to take some photos. The snow on this cub’s ears shows the weather before, and even in the background you can see some snowflakes falling. Low light, and heavily cropped.
Yellowstone’s Park Service reported that on March 7th the first grizzly bear of 2020 was seen wandering around, so soon we might see these majestic creatures roam the landscape again!
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Run, run, run! Pronghorns are the fastest land ani

Run, run, run! Pronghorns are the fastest land animal in the United States, and the second fastest land animal in the world, after the cheetah. As there’s no cheetahs in the USA, a healthy pronghorn doesn’t really have to worry too much. However, as soon as injuries occur, they are fair game. I have seen coyotes try on pronghorn, I have seen bears try them, and also wolves go after them. Baby pronghorn are extra vulnerable, and they are hidden in the bushes while the adults graze, so it can happen a predator stumbles upon them… The pronghorn in this photo was on an afternoon jog, and just catching up with some others.
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Excavator! This badger was digging a lot of holes

Excavator! This badger was digging a lot of holes one winter, and fooled me a couple of times when coming out of different holes than I thought. As I had left the scene and came back, suddenly more holes had appeared, and my focus had been on the wrong hole. There’s been quite some badger activity this winter, and quite some people had to joy to seeing one plow through snow and frozen soil. This badger’s face I find particularly cute, as the dirt mostly covers its features. Who likes badgers as much as I do?
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Equilibrist. It’s been a good winter for pygmy o

Equilibrist. It’s been a good winter for pygmy owls so far, even though it’s always hard to take photos of them here in Yellowstone National Park. They often sit perched in the tallest trees, and all you get is a little ball looking weirdly down on you. Only once I had an opportunity to take epic photos so far. This image however, despite not being the sharpest, shows a different view of this tiny owl. As a group of photographers had photographed the bird in a tall tree some two weeks ago, it eventually flew away, as ravens came in. The people left, but I waited a little longer, and then did a new search, and there the owl was, doing acrobatic moves for me.
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Fox incoming! I took this photo in February 2019,

Fox incoming! I took this photo in February 2019, when this fox came walking straight to my car, going around it, and then continuing its way. Foxes in their winter coats, in the snow, are amongst my favorite subjects to shoot. I haven’t had great fox opportunities this winter, but my archive still contains plenty of images. .
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Untouched snow fields. I love winter! Especially t

Untouched snow fields. I love winter! Especially the moody cold days, when the snow is falling hard. Winter hasn’t seemed that rough this year, and lately there’s a lot of blue-sky-days. Still there’s plenty of snow patches that haven’t been touched; no tracks of animals, or humans. I walked down from the road into this scene, and the snow was perfectly soft. The only tracks I came by were of a vole. Walking on altitude through deep snow is tough, but so rewarding if you get to where you want to be. This scene is Round Prairie in Yellowstone, with the mighty Thunderer, where mountain goats roam. .
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Be bear aware! Yesterday at Slough Creek, in Yello

Be bear aware! Yesterday at Slough Creek, in Yellowstone National Park, the first sign with a bear warning went up. It’s almost March, the month that some males start to roam again. In my first winter, I saw my first grizzly on March 15th, at Blacktail Ponds. This photo was taken a couple of days later, when one of the boars decided to go for a swim, and struggled in breaking the ice in the water.
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Winter awakening. A bull elk awakens in a snow sto

Winter awakening. A bull elk awakens in a snow storm, and the snow is piling up on him. I took this image last winter, but as I’m in a severe lack of bull elk photos, I thought to post this one today. As a reminder to myself, to focus on some new bull elk shots the upcoming period; are they maybe more difficult to epically capture than bison..? .
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Mischievous mustelid! I was lucky to come across t

Mischievous mustelid! I was lucky to come across two short-tailed weasels (ermines) two weeks ago. As I drove passed a big snow bank, my eyes caught one of these ferocious predators running towards the road from the forest. I pulled into the nearest pullout and shortly after I see it run to my left and jump behind some logs. Few moments later my client spots a second one running the complete opposite way. We try to follow it along the road, and find the hole it digs itself into. For some twenty minutes we wait in freezing temperatures until it finally comes out. We get to spend over thirty minutes with this weasel running around, and it certainly pumped the adrenalin.
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Raven in raging winter. Some weeks ago I took this

Raven in raging winter. Some weeks ago I took this photo during gorgeous snow fall. I had been focusing mostly on bison that day, but then came across this wise bird, laid myself on the ground and was able to snap some photos. It’s my first posting of a raven specifically, I believe. These birds are intelligent and highly adaptable. Some of them are being studied in Yellowstone, and carry a small antenna on their back, which makes them look quite high tech. .
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Howls in a snow storm. I took this photo in Octobe

Howls in a snow storm. I took this photo in October 2019, when me and my friend @tinmanlee got to experience this beautiful scene in Yellowstone National Park. A few wolves were separated from the pack, and howled, and howled. The snow was falling heavily and the dark silhouettes on the hills spoke to us. The few people in the pullout were completely silent, and it was just us and the calls of the wild.
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A Lamar Valley winter scene. I came across this la

A Lamar Valley winter scene. I came across this landscape when I was touring a client last week. As the fog was lifting, it isolated the cottonwood trees. The bison were mostly covered in snow drifts. It’s been catching up on snow and cold in Yellowstone, and it creates beautiful sights.
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Otters, finally! Monday I finally found my first t

Otters, finally! Monday I finally found my first two otters of 2020. I was cruising with my client, when I suddenly slowed down the car, and excitedly yelled ‘otter!’. My client didn’t see it right away, but after parking in the pullout, he got aware of the mustelid. Problem: the animal was extremely far away, and there was no easy path towards it. I was optimistic though, and I blazed a trail. The sun was already behind the mountains, the light was hard, and I almost gave up a couple of times. However, seeing a second otter suddenly come up to the ice, made me continue, and we got rewarded with some 50 minutes with these splendid animals!
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Behemoth bruiser. Sometimes things fall into place

Behemoth bruiser. Sometimes things fall into place. For me, bison are extremely difficult to photograph. After ignoring them mostly my first year, I have been trying to get better photos ever since. And it’s difficult, very difficult. How do you create something unique, different, or at least something that makes you happy? Almost two weeks ago some things aligned for me with this bison, and I was satisfied with the result, this image. It was snowing hard, and Yellowstone was mostly empty. I was waiting in the pullout for this bison to move to a new spot to find his food, and then was able to photograph him as he took his two steps in my direction, before continuing to shovel the snow away.
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Dashing through the snow. Badgers in winter are su

Dashing through the snow. Badgers in winter are super cool to see! I tell a lot of people I meet in the park that badgers are amongst my favorite animals in Yellowstone, and generally their first reaction is that badgers are very mean and dangerous. People are afraid of them, apparently. It is known that members of the weasel family (mustelidae), to which the badger belongs, can take up larger prey, and that they generally don’t show much fear: badgers don’t care! Like other wildlife in Yellowstone, treat them with respect and take full joy of seeing one!
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Boreal owl in Yellowstone! How epic is this? I jus

Boreal owl in Yellowstone! How epic is this? I just spent three full days in the park and found this owl. I was beyond belief I would ever find one of these very rare owls in Yellowstone National Park, but I got super lucky by spotting this one on one of my hikes. At first I thought it was a Northern saw-whet owl, even though in the back of my mind I was hoping it was a boreal owl. I looked at some older photos on my phone of the saw-whet and it did look slightly different. Then, by coincidence, as I had left the scene, I run into my friend @critter_chaser , who then took the hike with me, and he was convinced it was a boreal, which later was confirmed by different other sources. It must be one of my most epic finds within the park, and I am still pinching myself to realize it really happened. Beyond lucky!
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Howls of a wolf. I photographed this black wolf in

Howls of a wolf. I photographed this black wolf in November 2018, when this alpha female came in the open prairie, looking for her pack. Her howls were replied by her pack, just North behind a line of trees on top of a little hill. The wolf’s mother followed shortly after, ignoring the cars, and just following her own direction, like she has always had done. It’s 25 years ago this year since wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, and being able to hear their call in the wild is quite something to experience.
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Winter amphitheater. I was searching for a landsca

Winter amphitheater. I was searching for a landscape photo in my archives and came across this one from last year. I took many photos that morning of the first day of April. The fog added a lot of mystery to this prairie in the Northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park. The temperature was below zero, and the sun was slowly rising. The lone pine surrounded by fog, and in the background, Amphitheater Mountain.
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Giant in the snow. One of my most memorable grizzl

Giant in the snow. One of my most memorable grizzly bear encounters happened early May 2018, when this grizzly boar came with fast speed over the rolling hills of Hayden Valley, in the heart of Yellowstone National Park. It stood out beautifully in the white landscape, as it eventually came over the road, and then swam the Yellowstone river and into the deep forest.
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Shrugging off winter. Early 2019 I photographed th

Shrugging off winter. Early 2019 I photographed this bull bison covered in snow climbing up a hill in Yellowstone National Park. Upon coming better in view it shrug off its snow blanket. The road conditions were very poor that day in February, and I didn’t travel far into the park far to come upon this scene. Most sane people had stayed home but the complete silence that I encountered were totally worth driving in that morning. .
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#natgeoyourshot
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#wildlifeguide
#yellowstoneguide
#nikon
#ynpforever
#bison
#nationalparkgeek
#winter
#bullbison
#visitgardinermt
#wildlifefeaturez

Otter family! I photographed this otter family in

Otter family! I photographed this otter family in Lamar Valley, now over three years ago. In the snow you can see some blood stains, as a fifth otter got in a brawl with these four. It was a fascinating encounter on the banks of the Lamar River in December of 2016.
Today is the last day of 2019, so I want to wish everyone a very happy 2020!
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#yellowstonepledge
#wildlifefeaturez
#yellowstoneguide
#yellowstoneforever
#otters
#keepitwild

Swan serenity. A beautiful trumpeter swan in Yello

Swan serenity. A beautiful trumpeter swan in Yellowstone’s winter environment. It’s a great joy to photograph these big birds. This photo was taken in the Spring, when the road to the South just opened and me and friends started exploring the areas that we didn’t access for months. Wishing everyone very happy holidays!
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#yellowstonepledge
#wildlifefeaturez
#yellowstoneguide
#yellowstoneforever
#sony
#keepitwild

Coyote stare-down. Late October I ventured out wit

Coyote stare-down. Late October I ventured out with my friends David and @tinmanlee and early morning we came across a coyote couple. I laid myself down on the road and the coyotes trotted by. The male gave me a long intense look, while the female walked by while the sunrise gave her an amazing backlit look. That photo I will save for a later moment…
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#ourplanetdaily
#natgeoyourshot
#wyoming
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#wildlifeguide
#yellowstoneguide
#sonyalpha
#ynpforever
#coyote
#coyotes
#nationalparkgeek
#visitgardinermt
#wyominguntrapped

Starry starry night! Yellowstone National Park is

Starry starry night! Yellowstone National Park is amazing for stargazing. On the last day of March of this year I started a tour at 3am and continued deep into the day. Me and my client were able to get many great shots of the rising Milky Way. This particular photo was taken in Lamar Valley.
The park was empty, and some sounds would make us pretty aware, especially when we were standing far from the car. The park is alive, also in the middle of the night, and it is amazing to experience that.
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#natgeo #greateryellowstone
#yellowstoneguide
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