Mid February, I drove up to Montana to have a Wintershoot with the animals at Triple D Game Farm. The trip up was gorgeous until I got Missoula. At that point I began to wonder about the amount of snow in Kalispell, still hoping for the best. Only, I was not that lucky. My mental images with powdery snow had to make place for the reality of little snow and what was there had been rained into. I had not considered that it was an El Nino year and therefore the moisture was to the south. Knowing Jay Deist, I was sure he would do the best he could in the situation.

It ended up being 2 days of intense shooting with the animals they had selected for this session: wolves, snow leopard, cougar, Siberian tiger, foxes (red and silver), bobcat. As a surprise they also provided a shoot with 2 Arctic Foxes. This made for times with beautiful light and settings, but also harsh light  and difficult settings. After 2 weeks of sorting, I am still in the process of it. In a later post, I will pull up images of the horse round-ups and the raptor shoot with birds from a rescue center in the Kalispell area.