Wink Gaines Photographer

05/09/2024

TWIG EATER 🌟

How can the largest and heaviest species of deer live on leaves, twigs and aquatic plant life? The short answer is, Moose EAT ALOT!
Moose are herbivores, meaning that they only eat plants. The name "moose" is derived from the Algonquin word "moosu" meaning "bark stripper".

Moose eat up to 70 pounds of complex carbohydrates a day which means that they are constantly browsing for plant materials. Even though the protein content of plants is low, Moose get plenty of protein in their diet by eating so much and so often. Moose use the nitrogen in plants to derive the proteins they need to grow such big bodies and, for the males, huge antlers. Big bull Moose can weigh up to a ton!

02/16/2022

The National Audubon Society included my image of lesser in it's May 2020 publication. The photo was used to illustrate an Audubon news article entitled "Flamingos Can Forge Long-Lasting Friendships--and Rivalries". Here's the link: www.audubon.org/news/flamingos-can-forge-long-lasting-friendships-and-Rivalries

11/12/2021

AluminArte Collection

Original, award winning photographs for indoor-outdoor design spaces

Dynamic large-format nature and wildlife images printed on ChromaLuxe aluminum

Durable | Sustainable | EcoFriendly | Individually Crafted

Surround yourself with what you love!

04/23/2021

We’re all connected...

Acknowledging the and the fact that each of us is of the earth strengthens our connections. Understand the past, live in the present, and leave the earth a better place for those who come after.

04/10/2021

Why choose a metal print for display in your outdoor space?

The AluminArte Collection under the auspices of Wink Gaines Photographer features Wink’s award-winning photographs printed on high-quality aluminum substrate.

Why METAL?

✅ AluminArte is Hi-Def - for the highest quality prints available, Wink uses ChromaLuxe, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-definition, sublimatable photo panels.
✅ Prints are realistic with extremely vibrant colors.
✅ Archival Quality – aluminum is the longest lasting photo medium. AluminArte prints last three times longer than high quality photo paper under glass.
✅ AluminArte is scratch and flame resistant and lasts for decades, even outdoors.

03/09/2021

Wink Gaines Photographer

AluminArte Collection

Original, award winning photographs for indoor-outdoor design spaces

Dynamic large-format nature and wildlife images printed on ChromaLuxe aluminum

Durable | Sustainable | EcoFriendly | Individually Crafted

Surround yourself with what you love!

02/25/2021

Test

02/18/2021

What's a Mother to do?

The annual spring salmon run is on but the fish are blocked from entering Silver Salmon Creek. A Russian fishing trawler shuts off the way to their spawning grounds.

A rather thin Alaskan Brown Bear sow seems to know that food is going to be in short supply for a while. If she doesn't gorge herself on the expected bounty of gamefish, her triplet cubs can't nurse. All will fail to thrive. Standing on the shore of Cook Inlet, she appears to sense the danger. The cubs keep playing.

01/31/2021

It’s February and in , the shadows are long and the crystalline snows are deep.

The average daily temperature is minus 10 degrees F with dips in temperature to minus 44 degrees.

Now is the time.

on little more than dried grasses that they dig for by sweeping their massive heads back and forth through the snow to uncover what little fodder there is left.

Often, deep keeps the bison cut off from their winter grazing patches. When urges the herd to move or die, a lead cow will break a trail and, in single file, the rest of the herd follows in her tracks. I have never seen such will, drive and determination until I watched this hunger-driven Bison cow struggle for over an hour to get herself and her herd through shoulder- deep drifts. I was pulling so hard for her that I burst out in tears the moment she made it to snow pack .

01/02/2021

“Every night the with his wild monkey-face calls through the black branches, and the mice freeze and the rabbits shiver in the snowy fields—-and then there is the long, deep trough of silence when he stops singing, and steps into the air.”
~Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

The Year is new.....

Fly again!

10/09/2018