OWLS OF ALBERTA PHOTO WORKSHOP
- Photo Workshop
- January 20-26, 2025
- January 20-26, 2026
This is an all natural (no baiting) owl photography workshop. Good numbers of both Snowy and Great Horned Owls winter each year outside Calgary, Alberta. We will photograph both species with Snowy Owls being our main target. In addition we will look for Great Grey Owls which we have a reasonable chance to find and photograph. We will be photographing mostly on foot with short walks from our vehicles. It can be very cold in January so we need to be prepared for that. When we find a Snowy we will typically spend some time with the bird waiting for it and take off/and or start hunting.
Maximum Participants: 5 photographers plus nonphotographer spouse/companions if any.
Cost and Logistics
Itinerary
January 20th – Arrival to Calgary airport, transfer to a Best Western. Evening presentation on bird and wildlife photography by Ken Archer.
January 21th to 25th – We will have five full days of owl and wildlife photography. The leaders will arrive a few days early so they have a good idea of the best locations to photograph the owls. Snowy Owls winter in the farm fields and Great Horned Owls can be found in many wood lots. The exact itinerary will depend on current weather and owl conditions and how the group has done in previous days. We will break for lunch each day to warm up. While Owls will be our main targets we will also photograph whatever other wildlife we encounter which should include Ravens, White-tailed Deer and Gray Partridge. A lot of other interesting species are possible including raptors such as Prairie Falcon and Gyrfalon as well as irruptive species such as Bohemian Waxwing and Pine Grosbeak and mammals like Red Fox. Hotel: A Best Western
January 26th – One more morning photography session followed by return to the hotel and check out. You can fly out anytime after 2pm. You will go home with a nice portfolio of Snowy and Great Horned Owl images as well as a variety of other wildlife and birds.
Ken Archer
Ken Archer has been a professional wildlife photographer for the last 25 years. His work is widely published and he is a former first place category winner in Nature’s Best Photo Contest and an overall winner of the Wyoming Wildlife Photo Contest. He has spent a great deal of time photographing wildlife in the American West. Ken uses Canon.