Blog Posts

Epic Snowshoe Adventure in Colorado’s Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland

Go with S.W. Krull Imaging on a snowshoe hike through the Colorado high country during a cold Rocky Mountain snowstorm, including a new YouTube video to stimulate your senses.

January Newsletter

Luna Portrait (web)

One of my goals for 2025 is to provide a monthly newsletter to communicate important developments at both S.W. Krull Imaging, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and the U.S. Parks service. Programs that I will be watching closely this year include, the Colorado wolf reintroduction program, species protected under the Endangered Species Act, and the important news affecting our national and state parks.

Encountering The Three Amigos: A Wildlife Photography Journey

Three Buck Mule Deer

After a stressful day of nursing along a doggy with pancreatitis I needed some fresh air and a couple miles on the trail. I hoped I would find some deer or elk to photograph during the golden hour, but it was completely by accident that I found my favorite mule deer bucks, The Three Amigos!

Bald Eagle Nesting Pair

Bald Eagle Pair

Even though I knew it was going to be too cold, I decided to check on our bald eagle nesting pair anyway. When I arrived I was glad to find them both near the nest, guarding over their home for the next few months.

Colorado Ranchers Kill Wolf Project

Luna Portrait (web)

Just as a new batch of wolves are set to be released into the Colorado Rocky Mountain wilderness, the ranchers launch a new bid to kill the wolf project. The headline on a CBS news article reads, "Efforts underway to stop wolf reintroduction in Colorado with popular vote". Please do not sign their petitions to get their new initiative on the ballot.

Explore Act Signed into Law

Grizzly Bear and Cubs

Finally after years of uncertainty and consternation, the Explore Act was signed into law this week. The Act is a wide ranging set of new laws which will provide for the construction of new campgrounds, shooting ranges, trails and much more. Most important to me and many photographers and videographers, is the inclusion of the Film Act within the text of the bill. The Act eliminates the requirement for for purchasing an expensive permit to film in national parks and forests with the intent to make a profit, even though you might not have known at the time that you were shooting for profit. This of course affected basically all Youtubers, who have had to live in fear of huge fines for their activities, which were legal at the time they created the film. with onerous application requirements and an uncertain outcome

A New Year of Photography

A new year of photography is off to a great start with the birds of Eleven Mile Canyon in Southern Colorado. The bald eagles are back in the canyon, red-winged blackbirds are migrating, and I saw a northern shrike hunting in the meadow.

My Year in Colorado: Wildlife Photography Recap

A new year is almost upon us and it seems like a good time to take a look back at 2024, one year in the life of a photographer. Join me in this post as I review a year of pictures in the rugged mountains of Colorado.

Capturing the Majesty of Bald Eagles in Winter

Bald Eagles at Eleven Mile Canyon

It was an awesome, albeit cold morning photographing bald eagles and deer in the canyon. A cold wind was blowing down the canyon from the frozen peaks of the Continental Divide, but we stood in the cold until we were near hypothermia, hoping for the hero shot of one of the great raptors flying down to the river to catch a trout.

Winter Wildlife Photography

Coyote in Snow

Had a good couple of days with some winter wildlife photography using my mirrorless Canon R7. I considered making this post about shooting winter wildlife with a mirrorless camera, so I came up with this... It's just like shooting winter wildlife with a DSLR, so do what you did then. Which is also what I said when DSLR cameras came out. It's just like shooting wildlife with your SLR film camera, so just do what you were doing then. Lol, but then it was pointed out to me that not everyone started shooting wildlife with a 35mm film SLR, and some people never even had a DSLR, so there is that.