John E Marriott Photography
@johnemarriott
Professional wildlife photographer (wildernessprints.com), Canon Ambassador, ILCP Assoc Fellow, WPY alum x3, co-founder Exposed Wildlife Conservancy, B.Sc. Wildlife Mgmt, Board GBF & CCPC, Canucks fan, Metis, Cancer survivor, Proud Dad. Opinions my own.
Who wants to join me on an adventure to the Great Bear Rainforest this September? This is your chance to jump on what should be an incredible trip as we go in search of spirit bears, black bears, sea wolves and whales! Details at canwildphototours.com/spiritbearph...
New grizzly shot from the Khutzeymateen. Enjoy the colours!
Want to know how much great trailcam footage I got off of one cougar kill site? This is one of 634 videos that are getting CULLED. Very big thank you to the mom and kittens for being so accommodating! Enjoy!
A little trailcam action from a few years ago...cougar kitten on a deer kill about 4 kms from my house here in Canmore!
Another super quick letter you can send to oppose the ludicrous 10,000 visitor a day proposal for Fortress Mountain in Kananaskis that would include roller coasters, condos and retail stores in the alpine. action.cpaws.org/page/189331/...
Does a government that's willing to pull land out of a provincial park to give it to a private developer that's already rich so he can make a few more $$ on a gondola sound like a good idea to you? If not, visit www.nogondola.ca to take action (lots of easy things you can do there to help).
Does a gondola in Canmore with an additional 300,000 guests a year on it sound like a good idea for this town that is already busting at the seams with over-development? Visit www.nogondola.ca and take action (lots of easy things you can do there to educate yourself or just to send a quick letter).
A few new ones from recent trips. Enjoy! #wildlifephotography #lynxphotography #canadalynx
A few bull moose shots from my Jasper wildlife photography workshops. Sometimes you get lucky and find a nice bull right by/on the road, and other times you track them through the bush and find them in a gorgeous spot like the final photo crossing the creek. #wildlifephotography #moosephotography
A few lynx photographs to mull over while you peruse today's @bsky.app content.
BEST OF 2025: my first kick at a few Best of 2025 images after a much-needed month-long hiatus from social media over the holidays. So Happy New Year everyone and I hope you enjoy these first few images, with more to come tomorrow and Friday.
Today's shot, a cow elk below the magnificent front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. Enjoy!
A few new ones from the Great Bear Rainforest. What's your favourite?
That memorable trip last year where I got to play with the Canon 1200mm lens. What a cannon!!
A sea otter feasting on a red rock crab off northern Vancouver Island, BC. We (@exposedwildlife.bsky.social) did a short documentary on sea otters back in 2020: A Wildlife Conservation SUCCESS: The Miraculous Return of Canada’s Sea Otters www.exposedwildlifeconservancy.org/videos/ex-ep...
Whoooo you looking at? And yes, I am well aware how horribly cheesy that is for a Monday morning. Sorry, not sorry.
The legend himself...The Boss. Canada's most famous grizzly bear. Read about my incredible encounter with him and Split Lip back during Covid: canwildphototours.com/2020/08/03/b...
Famed grizzly bear #222 in Jasper with her cubs. Note the porcupine quills in all of their noses!
Before I got so concentrated on apex predators like bears and wolves and cougars, I photographed almost every mammal in Canada (I'm only missing belugas, walrus, fishers and bobcats, all of which I've seen, but never gotten shots of). This is a playful pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins off Van Isl
'Making the Leap' - a sea lion plunges into the Pacific off the northern tip of Vancouver Island.
Strawberry (a kermode bear - aka an extremely rare genetically white black bear) eating barnacles off of a beached log in the Great Bear Rainforest.
A little grizzly bear action from northern BC. Enjoy!
Loewen lied, then lied again and again and again about the cougar hunt and the Canmore cougar incident: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-coug...
Meet Zeus, another one of the Khutzeymateen's big boys. He's not quite as big or as mean-looking as Reacher, but Zeus put in a hard few weeks worth of work this spring courting three different females, including taking over with Big Mum after Reacher moved on.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Reacher, the single largest grizzly bear I have ever seen. He's standing in almost 2 foot tall sedge 'grass'!! Named after the 6'5" 250 lb tv character Jack Reacher.
The latest wildlife conservation news, including our call to Minister Loewen to stop being a populist preacher and get back to using science in his wildlife management decisions. Super easy letter to sign in that latest post, too. www.exposedwildlifeconservancy.org/community/wi...
This week marks the 5th & 6th international events in the last 6 months that Todd Loewen, Alberta's Minister of Forestry and Parks, has attended to promote trophy big game hunting in AB.
A little Jasper action recently. Nice to see a bull moose still holding onto his antlers this late!
I post a lot of conservation-related stuff, so here's a handsome pic of the legendary Frank the Tank in the Khutzeymateen.