Yellowstone Wildlife Photo Tours with Max Waugh

Tours led by a professional photographer with over a decade of park experience

"Max has many years experience visiting Yellowstone... this was invaluable in maximizing the photographic potential of each day." –Phil Y.
Join wildlife photographer Max Waugh on a week-long tour of the world's first national park! Yellowstone remains the premier place for general wildlife photography in the continental US and perhaps all of North America. The variety and proximity of wildlife is often unmatched elsewhere. Whether your focus is predators like bears and wolves, or powerful giants like elk and bison, or even smaller critters such as rodents or birds, Yellowstone has something for nearly every wildlife photographer.

Max Waugh has been photographing wildlife in the region since the year 2000 and has become intimate with some of the best locations to find many of the park's major species. Having previously published maps and guides used by thousands of visitors every year, Max is now able to share his knowledge first-hand on these guided Yellowstone photo tours.

Yellowstone in Spring: June 1 - 8, 2013

This tour is all about the wildlife! Spring is the best time of year to be in the park if your goal is to see and photograph the greatest variety of species, not to mention a lot of cute baby animals.

The spring tour focuses on the park's north and east wildlife-rich quadrants, but we'll go wherever great animal photo ops can be found. There's no shortage of subjects, from grizzly bears and wolves uncovering winter carcasses to newborn bison, elk and deer, to migrating birds passing through the park or building their nests.

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Yellowstone in Winter: January or February, 2014

Our next tour gives you a special opportunity to explore Yellowstone in winter. In colder months, the park can be cold and harsh, yet also stark and beautiful, with better photo opportunities for several species that endure the difficult conditions. Wolves, foxes, bison and river otters are a few of the popular species that we will seek out during our exploration of Yellowstone's Northern Range.

The winter tour also gives you a special opportunity to visit Yellowstone's remote interior, which is closed off to wheeled traffic during the winter. We'll visit several of the park's famous thermal areas, which remain active year-round and provide unique landscape photo opportunities. Our trip to the interior also involves visits to the Madison River (home to endangered trumpeter swans) and the vast Hayden Valley and Yellowstone Falls.

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