Doug Cheeseman Photography

Doug Cheeseman Photography Sharing the wildlife photography of my father Doug Cheeseman. Created by his daughter Tara Coyote.

Deep in the jungle of India, there dwells tigers 🐯 I remember seeing these tigers in India during the trip here in 1991!...
12/07/2026

Deep in the jungle of India, there dwells tigers 🐯

I remember seeing these tigers in India during the trip here in 1991! 🇮🇳

🐍 Aloha friends, I know I haven’t been posting on here much. My intention with starting this photography page for my fat...
26/06/2026

🐍 Aloha friends, I know I haven’t been posting on here much. My intention with starting this photography page for my father was to capture his brilliant wildlife photography, with all of the hard work, love and care he put into his love for the Earth and her creatures. 🦁

It’s been a fascinating process of my life becoming extremely full in the best possible way with the mermaid, ocean conservation world I’m in, plus my 🧜‍♀️ & underwater photography portrait biz - check out my pages 𝕋𝕒𝕣𝕒 ℂ𝕠𝕪𝕠𝕥𝕖 🧜‍♀️ & kauai.mermaid.experience & not having a lot of extra time to go through his slides and post. 📸

I think also, there’s been a deeper layer of healing around my father’s sudden death 4 years ago, which is a great thing! You see, for years, I’ve been pretty traumatized by my mothers, fathers death & packing up our family house all within 9 months of one another. It was a too much to process and it’s taken many years & deep therapy to find peace with it all. 💔

To be coming back to myself again & have this rich 🧜‍♀️ world to be in is incredibly beautiful and I know my parents would both be happy to know this. They wouldn’t want me to be caught in grief for years.

They would want me to LIVE MY LIFE, as they did in such a full hearted manner! 🎉

I think part of me has also been reluctant to sort it through my father‘s images as I’m finally starting to get my feedback on the ground after years of feeling like my heart was torn out due to their deaths.

So, this is my explanation for why I have not been here much. 🌹

I had the idea recently of creating an online platform for all of my dad‘s photography, which I still might do sometime, but we shall see when this happens!

I just thought I’d share why I’ve been remiss on this page.

On another note, this photo captures my dad‘s spirit perfectly, don’t you think? His exuberance for life and love of the natural world inspired, countless people, and I’m so grateful he was my father in this lifetime.

May we all love fully for a short time we are here.

Love you all,

The biologists daughter Tara 🧜‍♀️

Look at these gorgeous lions! 🦁 Who among you who’s seeing these images had the honor and privilege of going on an Afric...
14/04/2026

Look at these gorgeous lions! 🦁

Who among you who’s seeing these images had the honor and privilege of going on an African safari with my parents?! 🤔

Going to Kenya & Tanzania was my parents favorite place to travel. They led over 80+ trips there since starting their safari biz Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris . (Which btw is still running tours, you should check them out!)

They loved it so much that they took two last trips there in the year my beloved mother died, when stage 4 peripheral cell lymphoma was severely affecting her.

I loved how their honored their heart & passion and followed what gave them joy. This is quite an admirable trait don’t you think?

In these photos are a lion cub and two male lions. I suspect they were taken in the Serengeti Masai Mara, but I’m not 100% sure.

I hope you enjoy this share! May their spirits live on! ♥️

🐢 At one point in the history of underwater photography, this was a spectacular photo. It still is, but you can see how ...
08/04/2026

🐢 At one point in the history of underwater photography, this was a spectacular photo. It still is, but you can see how underwater photo technology has improved since this turtle photo was taken sometime in the 1990’s I suspect.

Still, the lighting and the details of the turtle are clear.

I remember my father and his underwater camera, it was such a novelty then. Who would have guessed that YEARS later, after his death, I would get into underwater photography. Check out my 🧜‍♀️ & underwater portrait photography page kauai.mermaid.experience 📸

Dad, your inspiration lives on. Thank you for inspiring me as you did. Love you forever ♥️

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Hello friends! I am considering putting ALL of my fathers digitized photos online on ONE PLATFORM (beyond FB and IG page...
06/04/2026

Hello friends! I am considering putting ALL of my fathers digitized photos online on ONE PLATFORM (beyond FB and IG pages) so everyone can see his photos organized for different locations, like Africa, Antarctica, South America etc and reference them. Would you all like to see that?

Also, would you have recommendations for platforms to do that on? I have created a handful of websites in the past and it would be fairly easy to create, but there might be an easy online photography platform that is already created for this purpose that I don't know about. If you know of something, please let me know. Thanks!

Dad, something powerful happened recently. ❤️‍🔥I told the story of you being an island boy here on your beloved home isl...
27/03/2026

Dad, something powerful happened recently. ❤️‍🔥

I told the story of you being an island boy here on your beloved home island of Kaua’i, Hawaii before the showing of Rescued Hearts Film film here last weekend in front of 300 people! 😳

I shared about our ohana being from this precious place going back to 1876, immigrating from the Azores Islands & Medeira off the coast of Portugal. I spoke about our family lineage & I spoke about your four year death anniversary, which was the following day. 💔

I shared about how it’s vitally important to speak about grief, to release it, let it go & how grief is an indication of deep love. 🌹

And guess what? Sharing in this vulnerable manner helped to heal my heart that’s been so fractured after your death. ❤️‍🩹

Everytime I practiced this talk, I would shed tears, as talking about you and your death anniversary is still extremely tender to my heart. I knew I would crack up a bit on stage, which I did, but that was ok. 💦

WHEN WE ARE VULNERABLE & brave enough to share our heart, this is when we heal.

We heal in community, not in isolation. 🙌🏽

And guess what Dad? Last night I had a comforting dream where we were strolling together through one of the universities you used to attend. You were telling me about one of your favorite science teachers.

To have a dream like this, is an impactful validation of the deep transformational work I have done after your passing. The months leading up to your death were incredibly traumatic for me, and this reality was reflected in my dreams.

I CELEBRATE THIS HEALING‼️

It was actually a full circle moment, as when the documentary was filmed here on Kaua’i, I spoke about my fathers death, as the grief was so fresh AND we had a ‘Grief Ritual with Horses’ activity here that was featured in the film. I love how it all perfectly unfolds in divine timing. 🌹

These were photos shared during the presentation. My father in a pineapple field in Kaua’i, him with a horse and me on horse with my parents when I was two. 🐴

Mahalo beautiful Kaua’i community for witnessing the inner chambers of my heart.

Mahalo to Dana and Krisanna of Rescued Hearts! ♥️🙏🏽♥️

🐯 This, my friends, is a photo of a Bengal tiger taken on an India 🇮🇳 trip my parents led. I was actually on this trip a...
27/03/2026

🐯 This, my friends, is a photo of a Bengal tiger taken on an India 🇮🇳 trip my parents led.

I was actually on this trip and remember seeing this beautiful tiger! It was taken in 1991.

It’s beautiful, isn’t it?! 📸

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