Dawn Wilson is a professional and award-winning nature photographer and writer. She specializes in photographing the wildlife of the Rocky Mountains and Alaska and has written hundreds of stories and two books during her career. For more than a decade, Dawn has led photo tours and taught wildlife photography seminars at conferences and birding festivals around the world. She loves writing about her travels, and her stories have appeared for decades in newspapers and regional and national magazines. She now also writes for UCHealth in Estes Park, Colo., the basecamp to Rocky Mountain National Park. Often asked what her favorite animal is to photograph, Dawn can’t name just one, although the elk, bighorn sheep and moose in her backyard regularly captivate her attention. Year-after-year, however, Dawn returns to spend time with the massive mammals of Alaska and the Arctic, including muskox, polar bears and coastal brown bears.