Designed for photographers of all levels, our wildlife photography tours combine exceptional wildlife sightings with prime photography opportunities and expert instruction to help you capture every perfect shot. Learn from professional wildlife photographers who know the best locations, lighting and techniques, while enjoying tailored itineraries crafted to maximise your photographic potential and respect the natural environment.
Each tour is designed to inspire, offering opportunities to photograph rare moments – from majestic birds in flight to elusive mammals and breathtaking landscapes. We dedicate time to finding specific species, using specialised hides, locations and vehicles to give you the best possible shots, and schedule early morning and late evening sessions to make the most of optimum light conditions.
Featured Wildlife Photography Tours
Our wildlife photography specialist recommends
"Our ‘Spain - Realm of the Lynx’ wildlife photography tour offers some of the best opportunities in the world to photograph this elusive cat, whilst allowing plenty of time to hone your technique with the aid of an expert photographer. If you’re looking for a long-haul option, our 20-day photography holiday to Madagascar has it all; unique wildlife and landscapes, bizarre and beautiful subjects for macro photography, stunning night skies for astrophotography and a popular leader with outstanding credentials.”
Will Crombie - Operations Assistant
Naturetrek Wildlife Photography Holidays
Our programme of dedicated wildlife photography holidays offers a range of tours aimed at wildlife photographers of varying levels of experience and ability, including keen amateurs looking to hone his/her skills, beginners with ambitions to learn and improve and accomplished photographers seeking exceptional photographic opportunities.
Each holiday is pitched at a particular skill level which is detailed in the individual tour itinerary, to enable you to take your photography to the next level. By working with outstanding photographers who share our goals of spending quality, informed time watching — and capturing — once-in-a-lifetime moments, we are confident that joining one of our Wildlife Photography tours will not only improve your techniques and sharpen your reflexes, but will also give you the best possible chance of getting an excellent image. As well as flora and fauna, several of our tours include fantastic opportunities to photograph landscapes and the night sky.
Our photography tour leaders are professionals with a great deal of accumulated expertise — and many awards and accolades between them — and so will ensure that you are in the best possible location at the right time of day for both wildlife and landscape photography. Our time in the field will focus on maximising the best lighting conditions and will also ensure that we have plenty of time to wait for things to happen. Wildlife does not perform on cue and our leaders and local guides will be constantly assessing the situation to ensure we are in the right place at the right time. Perseverance will be key to achieving good results! The best photographic opportunities often happen once you slow down, and wait. At that point you really begin to notice your surroundings, and appreciate the landscapes, plants and insects (that also make fantastic subjects!), as well as the birds and mammals that are the focus of many of our dedicated photography tours.
Being a good wildlife photographer is not about getting ‘the’ photo at the expense of the subject. On these tours we will cause minimal disturbance to our surroundings and wildlife, while trying to maximise our photographic success. Our group sizes on these holidays are strictly limited, not only to enable each participant to have plenty of room in which to work, but, just as importantly, to enable you to benefit from the dedicated time of our expert leaders. Our leaders are there entirely for the benefit of the group, to sharpen your techniques, challenge your thinking and help ensure you are getting the most out of your trip at all times. Our tours include time in the evening to review tour photos, during which your leader will advise on processing and pass on further advice about technique.
Our tours offer:
- Expert advice on how to get the most out of your equipment
- Expert advice on composition and photographic technique
- Photo editing tuition fills time that is unproductive for shooting
- Extended time in hotspots to allow a focus on target species such as Jaguars, Tigers, bears, puffins and otters
- Picturesque landscapes, visited at optimal times
- Limited group size
- Like-minded travelling companions
