private and custom adventure itineraries and photography lessons
With over 10 years of full time outdoor experience hiking, backpacking, overlanding/4x4ing, guiding, teaching photography, and group trip planning and leading experience that I can put to service planning the custom photography trip of your dreams! Accompany this with my advanced photography and astrophotography knowledge, we can make one helluva trip together. We love the group trips we put on and the fun, social learning atmosphere but we also like to offer customized itineraries for those looking to experience a more intimate learning and adventure experience customized to what you want. We can work together to create an itinerary and photography learning experience that you will enjoy and help take you to the next level on your photography journey!
The style of a private trip we plan is totally up to you. We can take it easy with relaxed imaging sessions overlooking Canyonlands, where we drive right up to our beautiful shooting locations… or 4x4 you and your friends down sandy backcountry roads to camp, enjoy, and capture the otherworldly texture and dark skies of White Pocket for an immersive and adventurous photography adventure! Let’s work together to build the custom itinerary to capture world class beauty and the darkest night skies.
I love my group workshops, but the advantage of a private workshop like this is that we get to work together to create a life-changing trip itinerary with photography lessons tailored to your photography level and artistic goals at all locations of your choosing. These trips you don’t have to share my attention, and I am totally focused on helping you go on a bucket list adventure and/or taking your photography to the next level. You are welcome to a +1, family, and 1-2 other photography friends to add to the experience and split costs. Some smaller transportation, camping, and food fees may be applicable- I can arrange for one of my co-leaders to join to teach, hang out, and help with logistics.
i can take you comfortably to remote, backcountry, and hard to access locations for one of a kind photography experiences!
We build a custom itinerary together around your schedule, shooting location choices, moon cycle, and best weather
I can provide 4x4, backpacking, and boating guiding to extremely hard to reach locations that are amazing for night photography
I provide custom photography lessons tailored to your specific artistic needs with editing lessons and custom tutorial videos using images we capture
We can always adapt to weather conditions and how we feel in the field
I have extensive knowledge of locations, “secret” locations not many know about, and actual secret locations that will blow your mind!
Location
I am based out of Page, Arizona, basically in the epicenter of amazing geology, dark skies, and adventures. I spend summers in the Pacific Northwest. Feel free to reach out about availability and locations. I am extremely well versed in most National Parks, National Monuments, Wilderness Areas, in the Western USA. I excel at backcountry logistics and planning around night photography shoots in some of the best places in the world!
cost
Private Photography Tour rates start at $1200 for the first day and $800/day after, each day consists of around 8 total hours of travel, guiding, photography, and editing. Costs increase if the logistics are more complex like 4x4, boat, and helicopter.
Rates can fluctuate depending on the complexity of the logistics and locations: 4x4ing you and your group down sandy backcountry roads to a remote location where meal prepping, camping gear, and 4x4ing are required is going to cost more than meeting at an easily accessible location in an established campground or park! I love and enjoy both styles. I have a robust overlanding and 4x4 set up with camping gear, chairs, awnings, Starlink, solar charging, water, shower set up, cooking set up, and a refrigerator- the advantage of working with me, besides my photography and teaching knowledge, is that I can take you out to extremely remote and hard to reach areas that are AMAZING for photography. And I can do so, comfortably! It’s pretty awesome to post up right next to a remote location and have internet, cold drinks, and shade/awnings with chairs and tables and edit right on location after shooting.