About Michelle Gilders Photography

Michelle Gilders is a photographer, writer and biologist.  She grew up in England, and after several years living in Alaska and then coastal British Columbia, she found that Alberta provided the ideal base for majestic mountains, incredible wildlife, thrilling rodeos, and stunning pow-wows.  Now based in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada, Michelle has expanded her extensive collection of wildlife images to include rodeos, pow-wow celebrations and First Nation dance competitions, firework displays, urban centres, and travel destinations.

Trained as a biologist, with degrees from New College, Oxford University, she is the author of 9 books with environmental themes, and prides herself on detailed and accurate captioning, particularly when it comes to identifying species and subspecies. 

Images are available for purchase and immediate download as high resolution jpegs (typically available as 48-51 MB uncompressed files) to meet all of your publication requirements. All images are professionally processed and carefully checked at 100% to ensure the finest quality; stock images for download are unsharpened so that the end user can determine the optimal sharpening requirements. Prints and other products are available through approved vendors in a number of countries for cost effective shipping. 

Images will be uploaded frequently to this site, but if you would like to know if a particular species or location is included in the database, please email with a summary of your needs. Use the Search page to show images that are not available to view in the browsable galleries.

Michelle travels often and is available for assignments around the world. Michelle also books a limited number of lifestyle and pet photography sessions each month--see the Lifestyle Sessions page for more information.