MammalsStanding Ground
Katmai, Alaska
Wildlife & Wild Places · 2009 — 2026
Where the wild
still breathes.
Eighteen years chasing light across savannas, ice, and rainforest. Fine-art prints, editorial commissions, and small-group expeditions into the last great wild places.
4.9 from collectors & guests
18Years in the field
60+Countries documented
40+International awards
Featured WildlifeEyes in the wild,
Eyes in the wild,
held for a single breath.
A selection of frames from years spent close to wild animals, on their terms, in their light. Each one is available as a museum-grade limited print.
Mammals
Big CatsQueen of the Mara
Maasai Mara, Kenya
PredatorsThe Watcher
Yellowstone, USA
BirdsUpdraft
Lofoten, Norway
Big CatsGhost of the Grass
Bandhavgarh, India
HerdsDust & Stripes
Serengeti, Tanzania
MammalsWinter Crown
Cairngorms, Scotland
HerdsTall Light
Amboseli, Kenya
BirdsBright Eyes
Białowieża, Poland
MammalsFirst Snow
Hokkaido, Japan
Nature Landscapes
The stage where it all unfolds.
Between the animals lies the land itself — vast, indifferent, and impossibly beautiful. These are the places that make the wild possible.
Patagonia, Chile
Summit Veil
A granite spire pierces a sea of dawn mist, the first light raking across a glacier carved over ten thousand years.
Pacific Northwest, USA
Cathedral of Pines
Old-growth forest folds into low cloud, a temperate rainforest that breathes fog at the edge of the continent.
Namib Desert, Namibia
Golden Silence
Wind-sculpted dunes ripple toward distant mountains in the oldest desert on Earth, alive only at the margins.
Lofoten, Norway
Polar Fire
Arctic peaks burn under a charged sky as the long winter night turns the air to color above the fjords.
1.2M
acres of habitat protected through print sales
About the Photographer
Elias Vane
Wildlife & Nature Photographer · Based in Montana, working worldwide
Elias began photographing wildlife at nineteen, sleeping in hides on the edge of national parks with a borrowed lens. Eighteen years later, his work appears in the pages of the world's leading nature publications and on the walls of collectors across four continents.
His approach is unhurried and deeply respectful of the animals he photographs. He believes a wildlife image should do more than impress — it should make a viewer care enough to protect what they are looking at.
Patience over pursuit
No baiting, no drones at the nest, no shortcuts. The best frames come to those who wait, quietly, for days.
Conservation first
A share of every print and expedition funds anti-poaching units and habitat protection on the ground.
Fieldcraft worldwide
From Arctic pack ice to equatorial canopy, eighteen years of reading weather, light, and animal behavior.
Awards & Publications
Recognized where it counts.
Honors from the institutions that define wildlife photography, and a body of work trusted by the publications that shape how the world sees nature.
- 2025
Wildlife Photographer of the Year — Highly Commended
Natural History Museum, London
- 2024
Grand Prize, Animal Portraits
Nature’s Best Photography
- 2023
Gold Award, Birds in Flight
Bird Photographer of the Year
- 2021
Conservation Storytelling Award
Sierra Club International
- 2019
Portfolio of the Year
Outdoor Photographer Magazine
As featured in
National GeographicBBC EarthSmithsonianGEOAudubonTerra Mater
Photography Expeditions
Stand where the photographs are made.
Small groups, never more than eight. Real access, hard-won locations, and unhurried time in the field with Elias at your side.
6 spots leftSerengeti, Tanzania
The Great Migration
Track over a million wildebeest and the predators that follow them across the southern plains, with river-crossing vantage points reserved for our group.
- Aug 12 — 22, 2026
- 11 days
- Max 8 guests
from $9,800Reserve
4 spots leftSvalbard, Norway
Arctic Light & Polar Bears
Sail the pack ice under the returning sun in search of polar bears, walrus, and Arctic foxes, photographing in the soft, low light of the high north.
- Mar 3 — 12, 2027
- 10 days
- Max 8 guests
from $12,400Reserve
8 spots leftMadre de Dios, Peru
Canopy & Macaws
Work from canopy towers and clay licks deep in the western Amazon, where macaws, monkeys, and jaguars share the most biodiverse forest on the planet.
- Nov 5 — 14, 2026
- 10 days
- Max 8 guests
from $7,600Reserve
In Their Words
Trusted by editors, guests, and collectors.
“Elias sees a moment forming before it happens. The frames he brought back from the Serengeti reset the standard for our entire issue.”
Marien Holloway
Photo Editor, Terra Mater
“Ten days in the Arctic with Elias taught me more about light and patience than a decade of shooting on my own. Worth every mile.”
Daniel Okonkwo
Expedition guest, Svalbard 2025
“The print hangs in our entrance and visitors stop mid-sentence. It is not a photograph of an animal, it is a presence in the room.”
Sofia Reinhardt
Private collector, Berlin
Contact & BookingLet's plan
Let's plan
your next frame.
Commissions, print enquiries, and expedition reservations. Tell me what you have in mind and I'll reply personally within two business days.