Travel and Wildlife Photography
This page is your portal to where you can enjoy one-of-a-kind photographic travel and wildlife photographs. Subjects currently include bald eagles, brown bears (grizzlies), and beautiful landscapes. There will be many more subjects to come down the road.
Just click the link about each subject to be taken to its unique page and gallery.
These images are also available for purchase. They will be printed on real photographic paper, on canvas, or on aluminum. This area of our website will continue to grow as we add new subjects and other locations from our travel photography adventures.
Please Click Here To View Our Bald Eagle Photographs Page
Bald eagles are one of my favorite travel and wildlife subjects to photograph. I just love watching these beautiful birds! Whether they’re sitting in a tree, or soaring in the sky, there’s just something magical about them that I just want to capture with my cameras.
A bald eagle flying over Lake Pepin.
I’m very fortunate to live in Minnesota, where they are somewhat plentiful. Compared to most of the rest of the lower 48 states, we do have a fair number of them here. I’m also very happy that they are no longer considered endangered. Hopefully, their numbers will continue to increase so that more people can see them in the wild for themselves.
Joannie and I took a bucket list trip to Alaska a few years ago, and boy, did we see bald eagles! Many of the images that you’ll see in our bald eagle gallery are from Alaska, but there are quite a few of them that are taken in Minnesota as well.
Please Click Here to Visit Our Bald Eagle Photo Gallery
A beautiful bald eagle flying near the Kenai Mountains in Alaska.
Please Click Here To View Our Brown Bear Photography (Grizzlies) Page
That bucket list trip to Alaska brings us to our next subject, bears! Not just any bears, but Alaska Brown Bears, known in other parts of the world as grizzly bears! During the summer of 2021, Joannie and I had an amazing opportunity to capture Alaska Brown Bear photographs at the world-famous Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska!
Michael and Joannie at Brooks Camp.
Brooks Falls is a famous waterfall that’s located in the aforementioned Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Its headquarters are at Brooks Camp, on the Brooks River. The falls are about a mile or so downstream from Brooks Lake and about the same distance upstream from Naknek Lake.
Fresh salmon, it’s what’s for lunch!
Brooks Falls is literally world-famous for watching brown bears catching salmon. They do this as the fish attempt to leap over the 6-foot waterfall as they make their way back to spawn at Brooks Lake. As a kid, I had seen many cool grizzly bear photographs taken there. And, now that I’m older and a seasoned professional photographer, I wanted to capture some of my very own! And I am very pleased to say that I did just that!
Please Click Here To Visit Our Brown Bear Photo Gallery
Travel and Wildlife Photography in Hawaii
Our next travel and wildlife subject is probably our favorite because of its location. Its Hawaii.
After photographing Willie and Brittany’s beautiful wedding at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island, we were hooked on Hawaii! And we’ve been back several times since!
Hawaiian Paradise.
Hawaii will have a few pages and galleries of its own. Here’s the first one:
Humpback Whale Photographs
A breaching humpback whale! By far my favorite thing to witness on a whale-watching trip (or from shore)!
Please Click Here To View Our Humpback Whale Photography Gallery
Photographs of Pele’s Well in Hawaii
Pele’s Well is both amazing and dangerous at the same time. Extreme caution is needed to be safe at this incredibly scenic location in Paradise. Or, just stay back a safe distance and enjoy Mother Nature’s show!
One of many beautiful sunsets that we enjoyed and photographed at Pele’s Well.
Please Click Here to Enjoy Our Pele’s Well Artwork Gallery
Nature and Wildlife Photography on Maui – Raising money for the Maui Fire Relief Effort
Here’s a portion of the town of Lahaina, under a rainbow, as seen on a whale-watching trip in February of 2023. This ultra-wide photo was created by stitching together many images to create a wide, ultra-high-definition photo.
An incredible sunrise at Kaihalulu Red Sand Beach in Hana, on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
Please click on this link to view and purchase Maui photographs to raise money for the recovery effort.
Wildlife Photography in South Florida
Our recent travels to South Florida have created many fun stories and unique photographic opportunities. This page on our website features nature and wildlife photography in Fort Myers, J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Myakka River State Park, and Six Mile Cypress Slough. The world is amazing, and we’re so blessed to be able to travel a little and photograph some of it!
Nature Photography at Six Mile Cypress Slough.
Nature and Wildlife Photography in The Everglades
In 2024, Joannie and I spent a week in the Everglades National Park and other areas of South Florida. This page on our website shares some of the stories and images from that amazing travel and wildlife trip!
A pretty photograph (if there is such a thing) of an American Alligator swimming in the Everglades.
Custer State Park
In late 2025, Joannie and I traveled to South Dakota for Kristin & Turner’s spectacular destination wedding at beautiful Sylvan Lake Lodge! In addition to wedding photography, we also spent a fair amount of time photographing some of the amazing landscapes in South Dakota.
Since Sylvan Lake Lodge is located right inside of Custer State Park, the site of their wedding, we’re going to start off with that amazing location. Please click on the link above to be taken to the full story, complete with wedding photos and a whole lot more!
We drove west through the Needles Tunnel to enjoy this spectacular sunset! This pretty vista is literally right in the small “Needles Eye” parking lot!
We’ve created a pair of online galleries with our favorite images from Custer State Park. In addition to enjoying them, all images are also available for purchase directly from the individual galleries.
One go the many incredible landscapes found on The Needles Highway in Custer State Park!
Because the land is just so spectacular, many of the images are high-definition panoramas that I stitched together in post-production. The panoramas are in a separate gallery, so you can crop them the way you prefer before purchasing.
Please contact us if you have any questions. We know you’ll enjoy them! The links below will take you there:
Custer State Park Photography Gallery
This stunning panorama is one of many amazing vistas found on the Needles Highway. I took a total of 27 images for this panorama! In post-production, I stitched them together to create this high-definition panorama.
Custer State Park Panorama Gallery
Here’s the link to our Photography Facebook Page.
And, here’s the link to my (Michael’s) Facebook Page.
More to come soon from Badlands National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve, and the Florida Keys! That’s it for now, thank you for visiting this page, and our other travel and wildlife photography pages too! – M&J