Capturing Beauty on the High Country’s Photography Expedition
Experience Iceland’s spectacular landscapes through photography on this adventure for experienced photographers. Your expedition leader is an exceptional photo expert who will offer advice at the deck rail, while sharing personal anecdotes over dinner or drinks in the lounge.
The High Country
From small details in everyday life to expansive landscapes, beauty surrounds us. Capturing it involves taking notice and looking with wonder at each moment as beauty arises–such as light hitting an angle on a leaf or shadows playing across rock faces. By applying the appropriate technique you can transform even ordinary subjects into captivating images that tell stories.
Discover stunning landscapes, explore an old mining town that once thrived as a center for commerce, and venture deep into one of the world’s premier natural parks with professional photography instruction and critique from an expert guide – not to mention becoming an even better landscape photographer!
Experience New Zealand’s beautiful Southern Alps on this photography tour! Enjoy private access to Mount Earnslaw Station and gain insight into country life in this remote region where several Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies were shot. Take photos of its lush alpine scenery while walking to more remote vantage points often overlooked by other tourists.
Join this photography expedition and discover an exquisite world rarely experienced. The scenery in the park is exquisite and you will have ample opportunity to capture it at its best. Throughout the day you will shoot in various locations that have been carefully chosen based on quality compositions, lighting conditions, accessibility, and ease of access – with time even set aside for astrophotography sessions as well.
On this three-day photography workshop on the road, participants are led by an experienced Mark Gray-Accredited Photography Instructor to various stunning locations at optimal times of day for optimal photo ops. You’ll have plenty of chances to practice essential photo skills as you capture photos that capture Bright and the Victorian High Country during Autumn’s breathtaking beauty.
The Adirondack High Peaks
Adirondack High Peaks have long been an iconic feature of the region’s landscape, drawing humankind’s gaze for millennia. Their jagged summits stand out against an otherwise flat region filled with mountains – they elicit everything from reverence and respect to challenge and competition, from exploration and conquest to wilderness preservation.
Bob Marshall made headlines for two hiking pamphlets written during the late 19th and early 20th century that captured the interest of fellow hikers: one, The Adirondack Forty-Sixers, detailed his attempt at summitting all 46 mountains over 4,000 feet tall in Adirondack Park; while his second work, Peaks and People of Adirondacks, examined mountain history and culture through ADK members’ hiking expeditions.
Marshall’s peaks became the focus of many ADK hiking expeditions, while his writings inspired newfound interest in mountain stewardship. At a time when environmental awareness increased rapidly, people realized that previous generations weren’t adequately maintaining the High Peaks; waste accumulation rapidly occurred regardless of official policies that suggested burying food cans; alpine habitat was being polluted with an increasing influx of aluminum litter and cans into its natural surroundings.
This one day adventure photo tour explores various locations within the scenic High Peaks region near Lake Placid / Keene in New York. This provides an ideal opportunity for shooting wide angle scenics as well as macro or telephoto details.
Springtime in the High Peaks offers beautiful scenes of lush greenery adorning lower elevations and moody, dramatic weather that reveals reflections in tranquil waters. Be sure to bring along all your lens equipment, such as macro, extension tubes and wide-angle lenses!
The High Peaks is home to the “Great Range”, an extraordinary series of bare rock faces which tower above other Adirondack mountain summits with Gothic architecture that makes this area so easily recognizable. This range comprises Gothics, Armstrong and Upper/Lower Wolfjaw Mountains.
The Catskills
The Catskill Mountains in New York state offer stunning natural landscapes that inspire photographers. Photography tours in these picturesque mountains are the ideal way to expand your skills and capture unforgettable shots, whether you are an amateur or experienced pro. Tours are led by experienced photography guides who can teach landscape photography techniques and provide tips that will improve your technique; additionally they ensure you arrive at each beautiful scene at precisely the right moment and capture lasting memories.
In the 19th century, forests across the region were threatened by logging and settlement, prompting Commissioner Townsend Cox to climb Slide Mountain in 1886 and realize the significance of the Catskill Forest Preserve for protecting water quality for local residents – calling it one of our “most valuable public lands.”
Tourists can still take in the breathtaking beauty of Catskills through one of many landscape photography tours available today, led by professional photographers with expertise. Additionally, these tours can provide a great opportunity for learning DSLR camera use as well as offering cultural experiences for an enriching travel experience.
Contrasting with photography classes or workshops, expedition photography trips provide experienced photographers and naturalists who combine skills for wildlife behavior analysis as well as photography into one package. They can guide you to capture beautiful images of the wild from both deck and Zodiac vessels.
Alexander Ladanivskyy’s expeditions are the result of years of travel. From glaciers to country roads, Alexander Ladanivskyy has seen it all and can teach you how to capture nature with your camera lens. Photographers from all over apply to join his photo tours – those that do are in for a treat that could transform both their photography and passion for exploring our beautiful world!
The Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains provide many stunning photo opportunites to photograph beautiful landscapes, from alpine flowers and rushing waterfalls, to dramatic mountain vistas and snow-covered evergreen forests, making these scenes perfect for winter photography.
The Rocky Mountains provide photographers of all skill levels a range of photography tours and trips that cater to them. The best photography tour companies will include knowledgeable guides who can help you capture some stunning photographs while providing tips on improving your skills. May to October is considered the peak season to visit them; when both weather conditions and scenery are ideal.
If you’re planning a photography tour of the Rocky Mountains, opting for one led by an experienced local pro photographer is key for maximizing the experience and personalizing it as much as possible. Professional photographers know their way around the terrain and can take you directly to optimal photo spots at optimal lighting times; additionally they will advise you on which camera equipment would best suit your adventure.
Fall and spring tours of the Rocky Mountains often provide some of the best photo tours. Falling leaves of aspens create breathtaking images; during these times the landscapes are not so overrun with tourists as during summer.
An alternative approach for photographing Rocky Mountain National Park would be taking a hike through Wild Basin to photograph lakes and waterfalls of this area, or taking an evening tour along Trail Ridge Road’s 12,000′ length in order to photograph stars and the Milky Way.
The Cirque of the Towers is an awe-inspiring landscape encompassing rugged granite spires and deep basins and lakes carved by glaciers, filled with vegetation and animals – perfect for wildlife photography! On this trip you will have an opportunity to photograph grizzly bears and elk in their natural environment.