Brad Orsted is an award-winning wildlife and conservation filmmaker/photographer, author, speaker and wilderness therapy instructor. Brad’s work has appeared on Nat Geo Wild, The BBC, PBS, Nature, The Washington Post and Smithsonian Channel. Brad’s most recent film, “The Beast of Our Time: Grizzly Bears and Climate Change” is narrated by none other than The Dude, Jeff Bridges. The film recently won Best Environmental Film Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Brad’s first memoir, Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild, is due out with St. Martin’s Press on 6/27/23.
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In the spring of 2012, I had an encounter with a grizzly bear on Swan Lake Flats in Yellowstone that changed the trajectory of my life and my life’s work. Swan Lake is still my favorite place in Yellowstone to observe and photograph grizzly bears.
Winter is by far my favorite time to photograph anything with a coat in Yellowstone and this red fox always reminds me why. The temperature in Yellowstone was around -20 when this gorgeous red fox stepped from the frozen tundra to see what was for breakfast.
The Wapiti alpha female is the only white wolf in Yellowstone, and comes from royal bloodlines. Here, she howls back with her pack to the Junction Butte’s.
Brad is honored to announce that he has partnered with Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press to publish his first book, Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild. Publication date is 6/27/23. Please sign up for the newsletter to stay up to date on Through the Wilderness updates.
Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild is Brad’s story of losing his daughter and nearly himself, before a series of breakdowns in the wild, healing ceremonies, and a love that comes from a deeper understanding of nature helped get him sober and back on the good red road with Marley at his side again.