Yellowstone Photo Tours with Max Waugh & Zack Clothier
Tours led by professional photographers with over a decade of park experience
Max Waugh has been photographing wildlife in the region since the year 2000 and has become intimate with some of the best locations to find many of the park's major species. Having previously published maps and guides used by thousands of visitors every year, Max is now able to share his knowledge first-hand on these guided Yellowstone photo tours.
Some of our tours are led by Zack Clothier, an award-winning landscape and wildlife photographer based in western Montana. Zack brings his knowledge and experience photographing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to our fall and winter tours.
Congratulations to Max and Zack for their honors in the 56th Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards!
Winter in Yellowstone: January 17 - 24, 2021
With Max Waugh

The winter tour also gives you a special opportunity to visit Yellowstone's remote interior, which is closed off to wheeled traffic during the winter. We'll visit several of the park's famous thermal areas, which remain active year-round and provide unique landscape photo opportunities. Our trip to the interior also involves visits to the Madison River (home to endangered trumpeter swans and the rare bobcat) and the vast Hayden Valley and Yellowstone Falls. This tour features 3 days in the park interior on a private snow coach.
Yellowstone Spring Wildlife, Tour: June 5 - 11, 2021
With Max Waugh

The spring tour focuses on the park's north and east wildlife-rich quadrants, but we'll go wherever great animal photo ops can be found. There's no shortage of subjects, from grizzly bears and wolves uncovering winter carcasses to newborn bison, elk and deer, to migrating birds passing through the park or building their nests. Our recent spring tours were incredible in terms of the variety and volume of subjects. 2020 promises more of the same!
Yellowstone & Grand Teton Fall Tour: 2021 or 2022
With Max Waugh or Zack Clothier

This is the ideal tour for those interested in shooting everything the ecosystem has to offer, from animals to the golden leaves of autumn. We will rise early for sunrise landscape opportunities and morning wildlife activity.
We'll seek out bears fattening up for winter, as well as male moose, elk and pronghorn laying claim to females during the autumn rut, and much more.
See a sample itinerary and inquire about our next fall tour.