Finland: Winter Magic
Dates: Feb 2-9, 2025 – SOLD OUT
Location: Helsinki and Ivalo in Finland Read More
Cost: $8899 double occupancy, single supplement is $2400
Details: Imagine drifting to sleep in your own glass igloo as the Northern Lights dance over your head. Join Tom and Cree in Finland as we explore the “happiest country in the world.” We start our photo adventure in the capital city of Helsinki before moving on to the frozen forest of Finnish Lapland. We will stay in luxury accommodations in the forest of Finnish Lapland. At night we will photograph the aurora borealis and spend out days with sled dog teams, reindeer and snow mobiles.
Baja Whales
Dates:Feb 15-22, 2025 SOLD OUT
Location: San Jose del Cabo, La Paz and San Ignacio Lagoon in Mexico
Cost: $8199 Read more
Details: Tom and Cree will be returning to the place where they first met to photograph whales, humpbacks, gray whales and blue whales. Snorkel with sea lions and whale sharks. Photograph leaping dolphins and rays. Explore the beautiful desert coastline by boat. To top it all off, touch a gray whale from a small boat.
Northern Lights and Iditarod 2025
Dates:Feb 27-March 7, 2025 SOLD OUT Space Available in 2026
Cost: 2024 rates are $6825 double occupancy, single supplement $850
Read more Location: Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska.
Details: The Iditarod Sled Dog Race is called the “Last Great Race” in Alaska. Tom and Cree spent 10 years photographing and volunteering at the race when they lived in Alaska. Now they want to share that experience with you. On this workshop you will attend and photograph the Iditarod Musher Gala, the Ceremonial Iditarod start in downtown Anchorage, the Iditarod Restart in Willow, Alaska. We will fly in a small plane to the Iditarod checkpoint of Rainy Pass to photograph sled teams along the route. We finish with three nights of aurora photography and the Ice Carving Championship in Fairbanks. This is a real Alaskan Adventure!
Costa Rica Rainforest
Dates: March 22-29, 2025 8 Spaces Available
Location: Crocodile Bay, Costa Rica. Read More
Cost: $5999 double occupancy , $850 single supplement , Non-photo price: $2299
Description: Adventure with Tom and Cree Bol to Costa Rica to photograph the colorful mammals, birds and plants of the rain forest. Expect to wake up each morning listening to scarlet macaws in the almond trees near your room, and howler monkeys ‘howling’ in the distance. The resort grounds include an estuary with breeding snowy egrets, green herons, green kingfishers and boat-billed herons. Other trails lead to the beach and through the forest where you will see toucans and perhaps a sloth hanging in the trees. Yellow-headed Caracaras and roadside hawks are common, and you can practice your panning technique as they fly past your room.
Tucson and Saguaro National Park 2025
April 9-13, 2025 SOLD OUT
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Cost: $1969 Read more
Details: Come photograph one of the most iconic landscapes of the West, the Sonoran Desert at Saguaro National Park. Tucson is the perfect location to fully explore and photograph this mountainous desert environment. We’ve designed this workshop to be loaded with special photo opportunities, and timed to catch wildflower blooms in the desert. We’ve spent many years photographing in this area, and a blazing orange sunset framed by a towering saguaro cactus is an image every photographer should capture.
Texas Birds in Spring 2025
Session 1: April 22-27, 2025 SOLD OUT
Session 2: April 28-May 3, 2025 SOLD OUT
Location: McAllen, Texas
Cost: $3199 Read more
Details: If you are looking to take your wildlife photography to the next level, we have the trip for you. Come join us for warm weather bird and wildlife photography from the amazing ranch blinds of South Texas. Photographing birds from a blind may change the way you plan your future photography trips. By setting up perches and using bird food to lure them in, the birds will come to you. South Texas is a mecca for bird photography blinds. On this trip we will spend several days learning to photography exotic South Texas species from some of the best bird photography ranches in the country. On our last trip there we shot thousands of images in only a few days. We will have exclusive use of the ranches and multiple blinds each day.
Louisiana Bayous
May 7-11, 2025 SOLD OUT
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
Cost: $2599 Read more
Details: Join Tom and Cree Bol in the heart of Louisiana to photograph the Bald Cypress Swamps near Lafayette. We have timed our workshop for prime nesting for egrets, herons and spoonbills. We will photograph by boat during four of our sessions and visit two different rookery sites. After full days of instruction we will relax with some of the best Cajun food in the country.
Spring Warblers – Coming Soon
May 13-20, 2025 8 Spaces Available
Location: McGee Marsh and Hocking Hills, Ohio
Cost: TBA
Details: Join Tom and Cree with a small group of photographers to photograph spring warblers in the best warbler location in the United States, McGee Marsh in Ohio. We hope to photograph more than 20 different species of warblers as they congregate in two internationally known bird hot spots. Join Interest List
Monument Valley
Dates: May 28-June 1, 2025 – SOLD OUT
Location: Monument Valley, Utah Read More
Cost: $4310 double occupancy, single supplement $700
Details: Join Tom and Cree in one of the most spectacular and sacred places in the Desert Southwest, Monument Valley. We will explore landscapes and portraits in the heart of the Navajo Nation. May is the best time of year for favorable star photography over the Monuments.
Grand Teton National Park
Dates: June 9-13, 2025 – SOLD OUT
Location: Jackson , Wyoming
Cost: $1949 Read more
Details: One of our favorite times to visit Grand Teton National Park is in June. The mountains are still shrouded in snow and the blue lupines and yellow balsamroot blanket the plains. The busy summer season hasn’t begun, and early morning photo shoots are more serene.
Brown Bears of Lake Clark 2025
Dates: June 17-22, 2025 – SOLD OUT
Location: Anchorage, AK and Lake Clark National Park
Cost: $7989 Read more
Details: This is our most popular bear destination in Alaska and we are going in late July in hopes of photographing playful spring cubs! We start in Anchorage for a welcome dinner and fly to our comfortable lodge at Silver Salmon Creek in Lake Clark National Park to photograph coastal brown bears and their cubs. This time of year they graze on sedge grasses, dig for clams and start catching fish in the creek. The bear density in this area is remarkable. We will spend our days photographing bears as well as a morning photographing puffin by small boat.
Redwoods & Rocky Coastlines 2025
July 9-13, 2025 SOLD OUT
Location: Crescent City and Bandon, Oregon
Cost: $1899 Read more
Details: Of all the wilderness areas in the US, Redwoods National Park may be the most awe-inspiring. It is home of the world’s largest and tallest trees. Walking through the redwoods in coastal California envelops the photographer in foggy, other-worldly terrain. The giant trees lumber toward the sky in a palette of chartreuse moss and deep red bark which contrast with the dark conifers. The Oregon coast is the second destination on our journey, a beachcomber’s paradise with layers of sea stacks. We chose the month of July for our workshop because it is the driest month of the summer. This offers the best chance to photograph beams of sunlight filtering through the fog.
Puffins and Waterfalls in Iceland
Dates: July 20-28, 2025 SOLD OUT
Location: Reykavik, Iceland Read More
Cost: $7899, single supplement is $1000
Details: Join Tom and Cree Bol for a magical summer workshop in Iceland. This is the perfect combination of wildlife and landscape photography. We are headed to Grimsey Island to photograph the Atlantic Puffin. We have timed this workshop to hit prime time for photos of puffin catching small fish for their young. We also spend time photographing Icelandic horses on a remote farm.
Greenland Disko Bay
Session 1 – August 15-22, 2025 SOLD OUT
Session 2 – August 22-29, 2025 SOLD OUT
Location: Illulisat and Disko Bay, Greenland
Cost: TBD Read more
Description: Disko Bay is our favorite place to photograph massive icebergs and Humpback Whales in beautiful evening light. August is one of the warmest months in Greenland, with average high temperatures in the high 50s’s. The icefjord in Disko Bay, is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. We will explore this magical location in small boats as we meander through the icebergs looking for whales, golden light the occasional calving ice face. Bird lovers can photograph Northern Fulmar, Black legged Kittiwakes and Glaucous Gulls as they fly past the rails on our boat. When we are not out on the water, we will explore the colorful houses, iconic black church and sled dogs that live in the town of Ilullssat, our home base for the tour.
Ouray Fall Colors
September 28-October 2, 2025 SOLD OUT
Location: Ouray, Colorado
Cost: $1899 Read more
Details: Western Colorado in the fall has one of the most vibrant displays of autumn color in the United States. Home to the densest groves of aspen trees in the country, brilliant gold and orange aspens saturate the valleys below the jagged snow-capped peaks of the San Juan Mountains. The air is cool, the elk are bugling in the forest, and the night skies are great for star photography.
Acadia Fall Colors
October 12-16, 2025 SOLD OUT
Location: Bar Harbor, Maine
Cost: $1899 Read more
Details: Acadia National Park is one of our favorite fall destinations. Imagine photographing misty lakes lined by red maples and yellow birch while loons wail in the distance? Or how about photographing sunrise along the rocky coast as waves swirl around polished boulders? And after photography sessions you can savor fresh blueberry pancakes at breakfast and Maine lobster at dinner. You get the picture….we love this area!
Greece with Strabo Tours
October 22-Nov 2, 2025 SOLD OUT
Location: Athens, Pelopennese, Island of Zakthynos
Cost: $5395, single supplement $795 Read more
Details: The mainland of Greece (Peloponnese region) has a lot to offer: a very rich history and culture, picturesque coastline dotted with fishing towns, olive groves and fascinating landmarks. We will photograph the Acropolis at blue hour in Athens and then head to the countryside in Greece to explore harvest time in rural Greece, lemons, oranges and kalamata olives. We are sure to find a portrait or two of the locals along the way.
Botswana Photo Safari
November 10-19, 2025 SOLD OUT
Location: Botswana, Africa. Read More
Cost: $10,369 double occupancy, $1300 single supplement
Details: We start our safari on Botswana’s famed Chobe National Park riverfront. The big draw here is incredible boat trips on the Chobe River with its high concentrations of elephant, hippo, baboons, waterbuck and Cape Buffalo. Our boat is specially designed for photographers with swivel chairs allowing us to achieve the highest quality river based photography.
Our second destination is the legendary Okavango Delta, widely considered Africa’s best wilderness safari experience. Here we have a safari camp that is ideally located in an area that provides dry land for top notch game drives but also has sufficient channels to explore the Okavango by boat. Use of a team of guides and trackers maximizes opportunities to locate and follow predators, including rarer species like lion, cheetah, leopard and African wild dogs.