I had pretty bad luck with cats during a month-long trip to India over a decade ago, so I often had to console myself with bird sightings. Here's a White-throated Kingfisher with a freshwater crab snack.

Coyote pups peek out of summer grasses near their hillside den in Yellowstone. (2015)

I'm overdue for some mustelid content, so here's a tayra picking fruits off a Panama rubber tree in Costa Rica.

A male puma creeps through Mata Negra bushes in southern Chile. This is one of several individual cats we saw during last month's Patagonia tour. Typically, big males are fairly shy around people. This guy was some 200 meters away and still didn't want us in view, so we let him be.

I love big woodpeckers, especially the genus Campephilus, those tall crested beauties found in Latin America. I felt fortunate earlier this year to finally snap a clear photo of the Red-necked Woodpecker when a family of four made a racket in the jungles of the Guyana.

A spirit bear crosses a stream in BC's Great Bear Rainforest. I'm returning to this magical region later this year. Hopefully the bears will greet us!

A flock of Snow Geese passes in front of a rainbow on a winter day in the Skagit Valley. (2016)

On Father's Day I'm feeling kinship with this lion, which undoubtedly just wants to relax in his hammock with a drink for at least five minutes, please.

Blackish Oystercatchers get a bit territorial off the coast of Chile.

I’m still off on a family vacation, but a quick reminder that there are plenty of new photos of this adorable puma family up in my photo archive!

Heads-up!!

New Photos: Patagonia 2026 I'm leaving for my next trip soon, so I may not be able to share photos here as consistently as I'd hoped (we'll see how distracted I am). So here's a quick notice that new Chile photos are up! Get a preview here: www.maxwaugh.com/2026/06/02/n...

A colorful character photographed some 50 meters above the rainforest floor in Brazil: the Curl-crested Aracari. I always enjoy climbing up into canopy towers... you never know who will greet you up there!

Friends of ours in Montana recently shared photos of moose calves braving the waters of our local creek, and I was reminded of this nail-biter during my 2014 spring Yellowstone tour. A cow had given birth on an island in the Shoshone River, and warm temps suddenly caused water levels to rise...

Exiting the kiddie pool.

A surprise snarl from a male proboscis monkey, photographed during last year’s Borneo adventure. We were some distance away in our boat, and these fellows are normally pretty benign. He quickly went back to hiding in the leaves.

One of the things I'm missing while not getting to be in Yellowstone this spring is the possibility of seeing cheeky badger kits.

My clients crack jokes at my expense about my fondness for motion blurs. Really, it's a just a way to think differently behind the lens, and to have fun in otherwise tedious moments. The results rarely work out (this Inca Tern shot is a mixed bag), but it can be fun to see what pops on the screen.

One of my favorite noodles from the Latin American tropics, the Blunt-headed Tree Snake.

A red fox pauses and listens for potential meals on a winter day in Yellowstone's Hayden Valley. Visiting the park interior on my winter tours is a special treat (on a private snow coach, no less). If you'd like to experience Yellowstone in winter, there are a few spots left on the '27 tours!

A grizzly bear cub tries to see what the fuss is all about with these dead slimy things. (Great Bear Rainforest, 2009)

A jaguar wanders under the golden blooms of a Vochysia tree.

One more frame from Europe this week in honor of my upcoming family trip. And this actually is a more recent shot, of the beach at Inch Strand, from our visit to Ireland with our son (he was too wee to remember any of it). I'll leave the gear behind on this trip, but I was glad to have it back then.

Angled lines caught on slide film in Europe back in the day: a canal outside Bruges, and a Yorkshire road.

Sharing more old memories from my Europe trips (before wildlife photography took over my life), here's a scene shot on film in Santorini. We did visit in low season, and perhaps it's changed in 20 years, but I felt it was one of the few "tourist traps" I've visited that's *not* overrated.

Revisiting Europe memories from a couple decades ago... Here's a Loch Ness Monster. Yes, at Loch Ness.

Ever since wildlife photography took over my life, I've done very little in the way of basic vacations and cultural tourism. But we're taking our son to Europe soon, so I thought I'd dig up some old photos from my early days. Here's the bath at the Alzázar in Sevilla (shot on film).

Just stumbled across this one in the archives. There HAS to be some sort of symbolism here...

I always knew aardvarks were a bit odd, but a few things really surprised me the first time I saw one in the wild: 1) They're much larger than I expected. 2) Their claws—so effective for digging—look more like long human nails than curved talony things. and 3) They have fuzzy nostrils!

It's good to be home, where we can resume our traditional morning walks about the lake, watching for Ospreys, herons, and Red-winged Blackbirds, and enjoy the precious late spring sunshine that was so prevalent when I left. Oh wait, it'll be rainy again. Never mind. (Birds + Rain is fine too.)

Just wrapped up a day tour along the Chilean coast, where we scored some views of Humboldt Penguins, Inca Terns, Black-browed Albatross, and even a marine otter. This wraps up my adventure down here, and I fly home starting tonight. Hope to share more new photos soon!

One of my more popular images from the 2008 Yellowstone trips (just added to my photo archive!) was this portrait from my first-ever visit to a red fox den. It was located in downtown Jackson, WY. See the YS 2007-2008 gallery here: photos.maxwaugh.com/gallery/Yell...

Hope all the moms out there had a good day yesterday!

Yellowstone 2008: during my first ever winter trip to the park, I don’t think I realized how big of a role winter bison would ultimately play in my career. This bull was being a bit frisky in the Lamar Valley.

Our adventures in Patagonia may have peaked in the past 36 hours thanks to our time spent with this cute pair of puma cubs. Their energy is boundless, as is Mom’s patience!

Bouncing back to some of the reprocessed images from my 2008 Yellowstone trips, here’s a yearling wolf we saw out on its own one day. Not sure why it had dispersed from its pack, but without a reunion it seemed the chances of survival would ultimately be pretty low.

I’ve kicked off my latest adventures in Patagonia. Though we’re here for cats, we’ll photograph just about any sort of wildlife, including this handsome Gray-hooded Sierra Finch. In a landscape of browns and grays, this is one of the more colorful denizens around.

Looking back at my 2008 Yellowstone adventures, the highlight of that year’s trips was probably my first ever session with black bear cubs of the year.

In 2008 I made trips to Yellowstone in winter, spring and fall. While autumn colors on the trees attract a lot of folks, those long blonde fall grasses make quite a nice setting for wildlife pics too.

Photos Added to Archive: Yellowstone 2008 I’ve reprocessed another collection of older photos, this time from my three trips to the GYE in 2008. Get a short preview here: www.maxwaugh.com/2026/05/02/p...

I'm heading out on my next trip today, which usually means a "takeoff" shot. Here's a Trumpeter Swan photographed in Alaska a few years back. The next two weeks, I'll see about posting some updates from the road, as well as sharing images from the latest photo collection I just added to my archive.

I found this pretty little copper anole hanging out in the leaf litter during our family trip to Belize a few years ago.

My first ever proper bobcat encounter occurred in Pinnacles National Park back in 2015. I'd been hoping to photograph bobcats in Yellowstone for years without much luck, but traveling south to see the skinny California bobcats finally accomplished the goal.

The Hamerkop is a bit of a character. Aside from the namesake head shape, I like how it shuffles around doing a little cha-cha in the water, in hopes of kicking up a frog or aquatic bug to eat. (South Africa 2010)

A young grizzly bear crosses an inlet in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest. Is there a moodier wild place? Not that I've visited.

Every year on my wife's birthday, I ask her what I should post, and each year, the requests get sillier. This year's theme is "animals playing baseball." (No AI slop. All images are my own.)

Wayback Machine: Back in 2009-10, my wife and I traveled a bit around Patagonia for the first time, ending up in Tierra del Fuego at one point. Here, a Rock Cormorant looks out over the Straights of Magellan. Heading back to Patagonia in less than a week!

My first ever coral snake, the Amazonian coral from Peru. We found it during a rain storm, and as I was photographing it, a different, smaller type of coral slithered through the leaf litter nearby and vanished.

I've been sharing Yellowstone Winter memories all week. The next winter adventures are set, prices are finalized, and we have a few spots open. I even rearranged things to get space for a couple on the February tour. Learn more about the winter tours: www.maxwaugh.com/workshops/ye...

This is one of the more memorable wolf encounters I've ever had in Yellowstone, much less on tour... but it wasn't all pleasant. We were standing on a bridge with other groups looking downriver when this wolf popped out of the trees right in front of everyone...