Javin Elliff Photography

Roosevelt Elk

The largest elk of North America, Roosevelt elk are my favorite animal to photograph.

Four cow elk feeding in a pasture on a rainy winter day.
Cow elk feed during a winter rainstorm.
An older bull stands near a young raghorn Roosevelt elk on the riverbed.
A mature six-point bull with dark orange antlers stands on open riverbed.
Two bulls on the riverbed watch each other cautiously.
Two mature Roosevelt elk fighting over a harem of cows on the riverbed during the fall mating season.
Two mature Roosevelt elk fighting over a harem of cows on the riverbed during the fall mating season.
Two young raghorns in the forest.
A unique young bull.
A mature bull elk with cows in the fall with yellow vine maple leaves in the background.
A mature bull with cows amid giant trees in an old-growth forest.
A mature bull elk following cows during the elk rut.
A large bull elk with a herd of cows in an old-growth forest.
A regal six-point Roosevelt Elk in the temperate rainforest with a herd of cows.
A six-point Roosevelt Elk in the forest.
A six-point bull in the temperate rainforest.
A bull stands alert in the forest, framed by thick branches.
A mature six-point bull looks back at me from his bed in the forest.
A herd bull laying on the ground, watching cows in the background.
A bull emerging from behind large trees in the forest.
A five-point bull standing broadside in sword ferns.
A young bull stands amongst ferns on a sunny day in the forest.
A five-point bull bugles from the cover of a thick forest.
A bull Roosevelt elk rakes his antlers against young red alders.
A young bull peeking through a gap in the trees.
A young bull standing in ferns in the forest.
A bull Roosevelt elk trots across a creek in the rain.
A mature bull walks across a riverbed in the rain.
A five-point bull feeds on willow shrubs out on the open riverbed.
Two bulls stand at alert in the rain on the open riverbed.
A mature Roosevelt elk walks into a dense alder bottom from the bright background of an open riverbed.
A prime six-point bull Roosevelt elk in thick brush of the temperate rainforest.
Two young bulls in a thick forest.
A five-by-six Roosevelt elk stands at the edge of the forest.
A prime bull Roosevelt elk standing broadside, bugles across a riverbed at other elk in the distance.
A five-point bull Roosevelt elk on the open riverbed
A bull elk pauses from raking his antlers on willow saplings.
A close encounter with a regal bull elk in the forest.
A mature bull elk in a mossy forest.
A six-point bull stands on river rocks with alders in the background.
A six-point bull bugles across the riverbed.
This six-point bull emerged from thick alders and immediately bugled across the riverbed.
A stout bull with a thick but short set of antlers, standing in the forest.
A bull Roosevelt elk with a unique set of antlers, covered with mud from rolling in a wallow. A cow elk stands behind him in the distance.
A bull Roosevelt elk with a unique set of antlers. He has three points on one side and five on the other.
A bull Roosevelt elk standing behind some trees and a huckleberry bush in the forest.
A five-by-six Roosevelt elk bugling in the forest.
A five-by-six bull stands in a grassy clearing in an old-growth forest.
A five-by-six bull walking in shallow water on the edge of a river.
Two bulls watching each other's backs.
A young bull stands behind trees in an alder bottom.
A six-by-seven bull elk stands in a grassy clearing of an alder bottom
A young bull Roosevelt elk in an alder bottom on a sunny, late-summer day.
A young five-point Roosevelt elk stands in a forest with a golden glow.
A five-point bull walks on the open riverbed on a sunny day.
A bull gazes at the camera from the thick cover of young red alders.
A mature six-point Roosevelt elk stands in thick brush in a forest of Western hemlock trees.
A vertical portrait of a six-point bull Roosevelt elk standing in sword ferns.
A five-point bull partially obscured by thick foliage of the temperate rainforest.
A mature Roosevelt elk bull bugles in the forest.
A heavy antler with white tips stands out in a thick forest.
A young bull that is barely visible through thick branches in the temperate rainforest.
A nice five-point Roosevelt bull with a broken eyeguard.
I think this bull thought he was hiding behind the leaves.
A healthy bull stands broadside in an old-growth temperate rainforest.
A five-point bull in the forest, with moss hanging from his antlers and covering one eye.
A close portrait of a young bull in the forest, with moss hanging from his antlers.
A young five-point bull in the forest, with moss hanging from his antlers.
A nice five-by-six Roosevelt elk stands out in the open on a riverbed.
This bull has one of the strangest set of antlers that I've seen on a Roosevelt.
A mature Roosevelt elk growing a new set of antlers that are covered in velvet.
Looking down on a nice five-point bull in the forest.
A regal bull in the temperate rainforest of the Pacific Northwest, with a giant old-growth tree in the background.
A mature bull Roosevelt elk with a tall, narrow rack standing broadside in the forest.
A four-point raghorn Roosevelt elk wades across a river on a cloudy day.
A newborn elk calf stands on tall, wobbly legs.
A six-by-seven bull Roosevelt elk stands broadside in the forest, his flanks covered in mud from rolling in a wallow.
A five-point bull Roosevelt elk in thick temperate rainforest of the Pacific Northwest.
A gorgeous five-point bull Roosevelt elk standing in a forest meadow.
A six-by-eight bull Roosevelt elk in shadows on a sunny morning.
A five-point bull Roosevelt elk in a subalpine meadow.
A five-by-six bull Roosevelt elk with ferns on his antlers.
A five-by-six bull Roosevelt elk in temperate rainforest, surrounded by ferns and moss-covered trees.
A five-point bull Roosevelt Elk in thick undergrowth.
A bull Roosevelt elk with antlers in velvet, in thick cover in the forest.
A young bull elk eating new growth from a huckleberry bush.