Mike MacDonald Photography specializes in the nature
and wildlife of the immediate Chicago, Illinois area, The Midwest, and United States.
Our images depict many aspects of nature photography ranging from spring wildflowers to summer prairie, autumn leaves to foggy winter landscapes, moody sunrises to icicle closeups. Wildlife images feature birds and many other animals.
Call us toll free 1-877-MAC-FOTO or Email Us with your nature stock photography research request. Our stock photo researcher will contact you. Look for our online stock photography database, coming soon!
Mike MacDonald's work has been published
extensively in Chicago Wilderness Magazine and nationally in such publications as
Outdoor Photographer Magazine and Petersen's Photographic Magazine.
Stock Photography Locations & Subject Matter Include:
- North American Locations:
- The West: Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming), Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming), Wind River Range (Wyoming), Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado), Yankee Boy Basin (Colorado), Arches National Park (Utah), Canyonlands National Park (Utah), Glacier National Park (Montana), Yosemite National Park (California)
- The Southwest: Sedona, Arizona and Saguaro National Park, Arizona
- The Northwest: Olympic National Park (Washington), Olympic Peninsula (Washington), Mount Rainier National Park (Washington), Columbia River Gorge (Portland, Oregon),
- The Southeast: The birds of Florida including Venice, Fort Myers, Ding Darling, Sanibel Island, and Everglades National Park (Florida)
- The Midwest: Porcupine Mountains State Park (Michigan),
Upper Peninsula, Michigan, Door County (Wisconsin),
Chiwaukee Prairie (Wisconsin), Indian Dunes National Lakeshore,
Shawnee National Forest (Southern Illinois)
and numerous locations in the Chicago, Illinois area.
- Chicago, Illinois area: Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Lake County Forest Preserves, Forest Preserve District of Will County, Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Messenger Woods (Will County - south Chicago area), Wolf Road Prairie (Westchester, Illinois - Cook County), Lockport Prairie (Lockport, Illinois - Will County), Pilcher Park (Joliet, Illinois - Will County - far south Chicago area), Raccoon Grove (Will County - Monee, Illinois - far south Chicago area), Black Partridge Woods (Lemont, Illinois - Cook County - southwest Chicago area), Spears Woods (Cook County - Willow Springs, Illinois - south Chicago area), McGinnis Slough (Cook County - Palos Hills, Illinois), Saganashkee Slough (Cook County - Palos Hills, Illinois), Bluff Spring Fen (Cook County - Elgin, Illinois), Maple Lake (Cook County - Palos Hills, Illinois), Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve (DuPage County, Illinois, west Chicago area), West Chicago Prairie (West Chicago, Illinios - DuPage County), Fermilab Prairie (DuPage County, Illinois), Morton Arboretum (Lisle, Illinois - DuPage County - west Chicago area), Belmont Prairie (DuPage County, Illinois), Fermilab Prairie (DuPage County, Illinois), Illinois Beach State Park (Zion, Illinois - LakeCounty), Middlefork Savanna (Lake Forest, Illinois - Lake County), Lake in the Hills Fen (Lake in the Hills, Illinois - McHenry County - northwest Chicago area), Kankakee River State Park (Kankakee County, Ilinois)
- Wading Birds & Waterfowl: great blue heron, great egret (endangered species), great white heron, black-crowned night heron, yellow-crowned night heron, green heron, little blue heron, Louisiana heron (tri-colored heron), snowy egret, common gallinule (moorhen), purple gallinule, white ibis, pied-billed grebe, trumpeter swan, wood stork (endangered species), Canada goose (Canada geese), mallard ducks, ring-billed gull, anhinga, brown pelican, white pelican
- Other Birds: red-winged blackbird, belted kingfisher, rufous hummingbird
- Reptiles: alligators, turtles, snakes
- Mammals: white-tailed deer, mule deer, coyote, raccoon, moose, elk (wapiti),
bison, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, yellow-bellied marmot, muskrat
- Wildflowers: Virginia bluebells, large-flowered trillium, red trillium, mayapple, skunk cabbage, blue-eyed Mary, wild leek, bloodroot, marsh marigold, pale purple coneflower, prairie blazing star, black-eyed Susan, blue flag iris, bull thistle, false rue anemone, rattlesnake master, dutchman's breeches, cut-leaved toothwort, nodding wild onion, swamp smartweed, hibiscus, swamp rose mallow, Indian paintbrush, wild bergamot, shooting star, false starry Solomon seal, rough blazing star, flowering spurge, yellow coneflower, purple prairie clover, compass plant, prairie dock, spiderwort, Indian grass, Big bluestem, goldenrod, Western sunflower, pasture rose, and more.
