07/20/2026
🦊📸 Wildlife Photography Guide ⬇️ 🛟 Save 4 Later ⭐️
After spending years doing photography across North America, these are some of the biggest wildlife photography lessons I’ve learned.
📍 Favorite wildlife photography locations
⭐️ More detailed location info in the pin comment and on individual slide captions
• Alaska is hands down my favorite destination. Nowhere else comes close for the variety and quality of wildlife.
• Grand Teton National Park is my favorite place in the lower 48. Moose, elk, bighorn sheep, bears, wolves, coyotes, and much more.
• Yellowstone is especially incredible during winter.
• For mountain goats, the North Cascades are hard to beat. Sahale Glacier Camp is one of the best places I’ve ever photographed them.
📸 Biggest wildlife photography tips
• Winter is often the best season. Animals move to lower elevations and are much easier to find.
• Get as low as possible. A low perspective makes wildlife feel much more immersive.
• Use the widest aperture your lens allows to create beautiful background separation.
• Sunrise and sunset almost always produce the best light and wildlife is usually most active around these times.
• Be patient. Let the animal come to you instead of chasing it.
• Rain, snow, fog, or blowing snow can completely transform an image.
If this helped you, save it so you have it before your next wildlife trip, and let me know your favorite wildlife photography destination below!
⭐️ Guide to wildlife photography on slide one and in pinned comment 📸
📍 Arctic fox I photographed just off the Dalton Highway in the Alaskan Arctic, one of the few places you can drive to see Arctic foxes. Amazingly, they are not afraid of humans and so they are some of the easiest animals to photograph.
⭐️ Guide to wildlife photography on slide one and in pinned comment 📸
📍 Baby Mountain goat at Sahale glacier Camp in the North Cascades national Park.
⭐️ Guide to wildlife photography on slide one and in pinned comment 📸
📍 baby muskox just off the Dalton Highway in the Alaskan Arctic only a few miles from where I photographed the Arctic foxes.
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