Yellowstone’s Winter Wildlife
A Photographic Holiday with Chris Weston
22nd – 29th January 2013
10% Discount for Nikon Owner Gold Subscribers
There are few places in the world like Yellowstone National Park in winter. Its quiet softness hushed by a thick carpet of snow, its trees shrouded in frost looming giant-like against the azure sky and its towering waterfalls, frozen in mid-tumble, create the sense you have entered another world. The icy-crisp air enhances the ethereal effect of Yellowstone’s famous geothermal features, an exotic combination of mist-shrouded hot pools and bubbling paint pots. And amidst this ever-shifting landscape of cryptic light and mysterious shadows moves Yellowstone’s wildlife: wolves, eagles, bison, elk and moose. Join me on this magical winter adventure.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
- Privileged backcountry access
- Specialised snow coach transport
- Six full days in Yellowstone’s interior
- Fantastic wildlife
- Image-rich landscapes
- Pre-dawn to sunset shooting
- Flexible itinerary
- No single supplement
TOUR DESCRIPTION
Although seemingly deep in a winter sleep, Yellowstone is alive with wildlife. Bison plow through deep snow in search of buried autumn-cured forage. Elk patrol the glistening white meadows and graze on grasses still green from the heat of nearby hot pools and bubbling springs. Small bands of mule deer, bighorn sheep and pronghorn antelope wander the frozen landscape. And on the edges, ghost-like, wolves watch and wait.
Our adventure begins in West Yellowstone, close to all the main geo-thermal sites, where wildlife congregates during the winter months. Each day we head into the park in comfortable and spacious specially-adapted snow coaches that take us into the remote interior valleys and basins – Yellowstone’s most productive areas for photography.
For six full days, from pre-dawn to sunset, we will explore the valleys and basins and other photogenic areas where the landscape is transformed into a winter wonderland of snow, ghost-trees and graphic ice formations. All the while we are on the lookout for the numerous big game species that winter in this area – the most abundant being buffalo, elk, coyotes and occasional wolves and moose.
TOUR ITINERARY
- 22nd Jan: Meet at Bozeman Airport, transfer to West Yellowstone
- 23rd Jan: Full day of photography (B,L)
- 24th Jan: Full day of photography (B,L)
- 25th Jan: Full day of photography (B,L)
- 26th Jan: Full day of photography (B,L)
- 27th Jan: Full day of photography (B,L)
- 28th Jan: Full day of photography (B,L)
- 29th Jan: Transfer to Bozeman Airport (B)
PRICE
£1,995.00 or £1,795.00 per person for Nikon Owner Gold Subscribers
Price excludes flights to/from Bozeman, Montana
BOOKING
There are less than a handful of places available. To avoid disappointment, it is important that you contact me, Gillian Greenwood by email only with your full name, Nikon Owner user-name / subscription number (if you are a current subscriber), daytime mobile and landline. As there are such limited places available, please reply as soon as you are able to. If you are not a current subscriber, you are welcome to join or upgrade to a gold subscription whilst booking the workshop to receive the discount on the session, but as above please email rather than call me.
gillian.greenwood@graysofwestminster.co.uk
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With very best wishes
Gillian Greenwood
Features Editor and Events & Training Coordinator
