The Gallery

Mostly Wildlife Photography

Welcome to the Mostly Wildlife Photography online gallery. The photographs collected here span more than three decades of professional wildlife and nature photography — a working life that began in earnest in 1983, when everything was packed up and moved west so the mountains and the animals would be close enough to photograph properly.

For years this work appeared in national wildlife magazines, calendars and nature books, and beginning in 1989 it was sold as fine art prints at art shows across the country. The gallery below gathers the photographs that visitors to those shows asked about most — the wolves and bears that anchored the booth, the penguins that always drew a crowd, and the travel images from Europe, Africa and Asia that gave the collection its name: mostly wildlife.

Click any photograph to see it large, read the story of how it was made, and learn a little about the animal or the place itself.

Old stone vicarage in the Cotswolds with rose-filled cottage garden after rain Old Vicarage No. 158 Colorful houses of Burano reflected in a still canal at dawn Burano Canal No. 171 Stone villa in Provence behind rows of blooming lavender at golden hour Lavender Villa No. 167 Elephant mother boosting her calf up a muddy riverbank with her trunk A Helping Hand No. 142 Market umbrellas open against a faded red ochre wall in Italy Red Wall & Umbrellas No. 176 Elephants crossing the Amboseli plain at sunrise beneath Mount Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro Sunrise No. 139 Weathered cobalt blue door in an ochre colonial wall in San Miguel de Allende Mexican Blue Door No. 183 Composition of colorful Georgian doors of Dublin Irish Doors No. 174 Thatched Rectory Cottage with roses around the door in evening light Rectory Cottage No. 156 Collage of San Miguel de Allende doorways, walls, bougainvillea and bell towers San Miguel Collage No. 184 Portrait of a Tibetan elder with prayer beads against a whitewashed wall Faces of Tibet No. 191 Iceberg arch framing the Antarctic sea and distant penguins Antarctic Picture Frame No. 201 Adélie penguins diving off the ice edge while the last one hesitates Last One In No. 204 Polar bear mother folding her cub into her chest during a blizzard Mother's Protective Arms No. 209 Polar bear lying on his back in the snow looking at the camera Laid Back Bear No. 123 Bald eagle peeking over the rim of its huge stick nest Eagle Peek No. 147 American pika between granite rocks carrying a mouthful of wildflowers Between a Rock No. 152 Two emperor penguin adults watching over three chicks on the ice Emperor Penguin Family No. 198 Grizzly bear scratching his back against a pine tree with eyes closed Feels So Good No. 134 Spotted whitetail fawn curled asleep among June wildflowers Fawn and Flowers No. 128 Bald eagle flying low over the river with a trout in its talons Lunchtime — Bald Eagle No. 148 White aspen trunks beneath glowing golden autumn canopy in Colorado Colorado Aspens No. 161 Bull bison caked in snow grazing through a Yellowstone blizzard Snow Happens No. 131

Wildlife

The heart of the collection: a polar bear flat on his back in the Hudson Bay snow, a mother bear shielding her cub, an eagle peeking over the edge of its nest, a grizzly scratching an itch against a lodgepole pine, a whitetail fawn tucked into June wildflowers, a pika gathering hay between granite boulders, bison wearing a blizzard, and a bald eagle carrying lunch home.

Antarctica

Three expeditions south produced some of the most asked-about images in the gallery: the emperor penguin family, Adélies lining up for the last one in, and an iceberg arch that frames the continent like an Antarctic picture frame.

Africa & Asia

From the acacia country below Kilimanjaro: a sunrise over the mountain and an elephant calf getting a helping hand up a riverbank. From the high plateau: the weathered faces of Tibet.

Europe & Mexico

The travel side of the collection: the Old Vicarage and Rectory Cottage from English villages, Irish doors, a lavender villa in Provence, the Burano canal and a red wall with umbrellas from Italy, golden Colorado aspens, and from Mexico a famous blue door and the San Miguel collage.

Wildlife photography in North America owes much to the conservation organizations that keep these animals on the landscape; the National Wildlife Federation is a good place to start if these photographs make you want to help. If you prefer to browse with your feet up, the slideshow gallery rotates through the entire collection automatically.