Triple D Game Farm, Kalispell, Montana

Well, I just got back from an amazing trip to the Triple D Game Farm in Kalispell, Montana. It is a specialized business that provides trained animal models for wildlife photography & cinematography. There are many different animals to photograph in a variety of natural enclosure settings. We worked with amazing animals trainers who truly loved & cared for these animals. To watch them interact with the animals was awe-inspiring.

This trip was organized by wildlife photographers Glen & Rebecca Grambo. As I am fairly new to the whole photography world, I really appreciated all of the advice that I was given & the repetitive questionst that were patiently answered by the Grambos as well as the other photographers there with us. I really did learn alot! My goal is to eventually take a decent enough photo that I can use as my own reference for my art work. Up until now, I have relied on the wonderful work of experienced photographers who seem to take the perfect photo! I am still striving for that perfection!

We did a total of 14 photo shoots in the 4 days that we were there. We started our day at 4 or 5 each morning, often shooting right through into the afternoon. We would then take a short break to shovel some food down & download our photos before venturing off into the gorgeous Kalispell area to photograph our amazing surroundings. We had the opportunity to photograph cougars, wolves, bobcats, lynx, deer, fox, coyote, and river otter. Many of these included baby animals, often only a few weeks old. Photographing the red fox was an exhausting task...those things don't really ever stop moving! Who knew photography was such as tough job?! We also travelled down some gravel roads, photographing horses, birds, old barns, etc. One afternoon we drove into Glacier National Park to photograph the scenery. There were spectacular waterfalls that caught our attention. The wet rocks, however, threatened to take my & my camera gear out of commission!!!

I came home with 12,000 photographs!!! I am currently going through this immense amount of files, deleting the obvious crap...here's a tail, this one's blurry, blinking, blur of fur, etc. It may take me a while to condense it to something that anyone can actually browse through!