• Wildlife Photography Tours

    Stan is proud to offer two different world-class Wildlife Photography Tours each summer during June in Minnesota's lake country.

    Dates are limited. Contact Stan to book your date. 

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  • Bookstore

    Stan has written and photographed over a hundred state-by-state field guides and other books on nature.

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  • NatureSmart Images

    NatureSmart Images is a web site featuring Stan's popular photography.

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  • Presentations

    Stan Tekiela has given hundreds of talks and seminars across the country.

    Stan's presentations will help you look at wildlife in a whole different way.

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Black Bear

We could see it moving through the tall, dull green grass of late summer, and it is moving in our direction. I told the group that we better move back and get our cameras ready. It looks like it...

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Gee-whiz Nature Facts

Crows are one of the few birds that are known to collect and store bright and shiny objects such as bottle tops, broken glass, rings, and shinny gum wrappers just for the fun of it. They are also well known for entertaining themselves by provoking chases from other crows, and even other species of birds such as Bald Eagles.

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Wildlife Photography Tours

Each year, during June and July, Stan Tekiela offers two world-class wildlife photography tours. Here's your chance to learn some tricks of the trade from a top professional.

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NatureSmart Wildlife Images

Do you have any interesting wildlife in your backyard? Any nesting birds, deer, turkeys, reptiles, amphibians, or other unique wildlife? Or maybe a fox or coyote den?

If so, contact Stan at stan@naturesmart.com with your backyard wildlife. If he can get a good photo of the subject, he will send you a print of the photo to hang on your wall.

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Hear Stan on radio stations all across the Midwest.
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