Alberta – Rocky Mountains – Wildlife

Hi photographers and Rocky Mountains lovers!

I know it’s been a while, but I was really busy for the last months, and, I went to the Canadian Rocky Mountains in Alberta, for vacation for 16 amazing days :)

A way for me to go back into the Nature and enjoy outdoor activites.
Walking, hiking and climbing for hours, I can tell you that it’s an incredible place over there.
Doing all of this with my cameras, I was really happy to be part of a place that I was dreaming about for so long…
A little boy’s dream comes true…

I will upload some landscape photographies soon, but this vacation was also a good test for me, regarding my Wildlife photographer ambition ^^

Here are some shots of differents animals that I met there.

Walking deep into the woods, among the buffaloberry bushes, to meet, a hoped grizzly…
It turned out that I met brown bears and blacks bears, but no grizzly in face to face that time… later!

I will add more photos soon, but here is an apetizer :)

The last photo is a rare animal, the Fredericus Photographis…

I used mainly my Canon EOS 7D and Canon EOS 400D for the cameras, and for the zoom lenses, my Canon 70-200mm F4 (sometime with a focal extender x2) and my Sigma 50-500mm for larger and more dangerous animals… but you can have them really close to you.

I hope that you will like my photos of Wildlife in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta!
Main places are the great Kananaskis Country, the Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Yoho National Park, Mount Robson.

Enjoy, and take care!

Marmot laying
F9, 1/1600 sec, 500 mm, ISO800, Canon EOS 7D

Prairie dog standing and screaming with burrow in Alberta
F10, 1/1250 sec, 500 mm, ISO800, Canon EOS 7D

Ground squirrel eating flower
F6.3, 1/2000 sec, 373 mm, ISO1600, Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL

Grey jay in Alberta Rocky Mountains, on branch
F6.3, 1/3200 sec, 203 mm, ISO1600, Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL

Grizzly eating in Alberta Rockies
F6.3, 1/1000 sec, 500 mm, ISO2500, Canon EOS 7D

Golden mantled ground squirrel
F6.3, 1/250 sec, 500 mm, ISO640, Canon EOS 7D

Elk female eating
F6.3, 1/500 sec, 450 mm, ISO2500, Canon EOS 7D

Elk with big antlers eating grass in meadow in Alberta
F5.6, 1/2500 sec, 113 mm, ISO1250, Canon EOS 7D

Deer white tailed
F6.3, 1/30 sec, 75 mm, ISO500, Canon EOS 7D

Deer drinking water in river in meadow
F6.3, 1/160 sec, 500 mm, ISO320, Canon EOS 7D

Coyote in Alberta in Banff Park
F11, 1/400 sec, 500 mm, ISO320, Canon EOS 7D

Clarkvnutcrackervbirdvportrait
F9, 1/160 sec, 373 mm, ISO200, Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL

Cinnamon bear in buffalo berries in Alberta
F6.3, 1/640 sec, 500 mm, ISO1600, Canon EOS 7D

Cinnamon bear eating berries in the woods
F6.3, 1/1000 sec, 413 mm, ISO2000, Canon EOS 7D

Black spider in Rocky Mountains in Alberta
F8, 1/1000 sec, 373 mm, ISO500, Canon EOS 7D

Black bear hugging tree in Alberta Rockies
F6.3, 1/640 sec, 287 mm, ISO2000, Canon EOS 7D

Black bear eating berries in the woods
F6.3, 1/160 sec, 373 mm, ISO1250, Canon EOS 7D

Hawk on branch in tree near Banff, Alberta
F9, 1/250 sec, 500 mm, ISO1250, Canon EOS 7D

Bighorn sheep portrait in Alberta mountains
F7.1, 1/800 sec, 244 mm, ISO200, Canon EOS 7D

Bighorn sheep female
F8, 1/320 sec, 500 mm, ISO320, Canon EOS 7D

Osprey
F9, 1/640 sec, 500 mm, ISO400, Canon EOS 7D

Pika screaming on rock in Alberta
F6.3, 1/320 sec, 500 mm, ISO1600, Canon EOS 7D

Red butterfly
F9, 1/400 sec, 332 mm, ISO200, Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL

Squirrel on branch in pinecone tree
F6.3, 1/250 sec, 332 mm, ISO800, Canon EOS 7D

Trout in river in Alberta, in clear water with rocks
F6.3, 1/200 sec, 244 mm, ISO200, Canon EOS 7D

Willow grouse standing in forest on trail in Alberta
F7.1, 1/320 sec, 500 mm, ISO320, Canon EOS 7D

Species on the photos:
Brown bear, black bear, cinnamon bear, grizzly bear, elk, ground squirrel, squirrel, marmot, hawk, grey jay, coyote, pika and much more!

[More photos are available on IBuyPhotos.com]