Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours and Expeditions
Great Trips, Great Groups, Great Prices!
Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours offers photography tours and expeditions intended to get you to fantastic wildlife photography locations throughout Canada for a reasonable price with a good group of like-minded photographers.
The primary focus of all of our tours is on wildlife photography from dawn until dusk in some of Canada's premier wildlife viewing places. These are strictly photo tours, so unlike my photography workshops that place an emphasis on learning and photography instruction, these tours are geared towards getting out there and getting great shots. Because of this, these tours are primarily designed for more advanced wildlife photographers that don't require a lot of tutelage. I will be photographing right alongside you, making sure that we go to the best spots at the best times of day, with guidance from the tour operators that I have chosen to travel with on these tours and expeditions.
With this in mind, I have sought out tour operators that are familiar with working with wildlife photographers and with the special demands that we can place on an operator. And more importantly, I've selected small, personal companies that offer premium trips to exotic Canadian locales, places that I had a strong desire to visit, or revisit, and photograph in, like the Arctic and the Great Bear Rainforest. I have contracted with these operators to book entire trips with them at their normal rates, which I am able to pass along to you with little or no markup.
The advantages to booking a wildlife photography tour with Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours are three-fold: one, you get opportunities to go on trips that are not normally available for single photographers on their own, like our Arctic Ice Floe Trip. Two, you get to bypass the small operators' normal clientele, which can include a mix of people that may or may not be interested in wildlife photography. On each of our tours, you will be with a group of wildlife photographers intent on getting to the best spots and utilizing every last second of daylight to maximize your photographic opportunities. And finally, three, if you do have photography-related questions, I will be there to provide answers and advice throughout your tour.
Please check below for our confirmed and tentative tours / dates for 2010 and 2011. If you would like to be updated when new trips are finalized or existing ones are changed, please contact me. |
Arctic Ice Floe Edge Tour - Pond Inlet, Nunavut - Polar Bears, Narwhals, Bowhead Whales
Trip Departure Point: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Trip Dates: June 12-22, 2010
Trip Cost: $7995, all-inclusive from Ottawa
Availability: View the pictures in the new Canadian Arctic Wildlife and Landscape Photography Gallery
Polar Bear Photograph from Churchill, Manitoba
A once-in-a-lifetime expedition trip with Canada's premier Arctic tour operator. Limited to just seven photographers. We will be leaving Ottawa on the morning of June 12th and flying north 2,500 kilometres to the small Arctic community of Pond Inlet, on Baffin Island. We will depart Pond Inlet on June 13th and travel across the polar ice via snowmachine and komatik sled to the Arctic ice floe edge, where we will set up camp for seven days of 24-hour light, in the hopes of photographing polar bears, narwhals, bowhead whales, fur seals, bearded seals, gyrfalcons, ivory gulls, snow geese, and a host of other arctic species, along with Arctic scenery including Baffin Island and Bylot Island.
This trip requires a moderate level of fitness and may involve hiking moderate distances with camera gear (3-5 kms). Maximum six participants (plus John).
Contact John immediately if you are interested in more details or are interested in the final remaining spot.
Tundra Tour - Baker Lake, Nunavut - Caribou, Muskox, Fall Colours, and Northern Lights
Trip Departure Point: Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada (via Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Trip Dates: August 27 - September 3, 2010 Just 3 Spots Remaining!
Trip Cost: $3995 + gst, all-inclusive from Baker Lake, Nunavut **
Availability: Contact John to book now! or Click for more information on the Tundra Photo Tour!
Caribou and Northern Lights Photographs from the Yukon
A wildlife and nature photographer's dream trip to the northern tundra, home of the barrenground caribou, muskox, tundra wolf, and grizzly bear. We will fly into a remote camp operated by the most trusted adventure outfit in Nunavut for six full days on the tundra photographing caribou, muskox, ptarmigan, fox, fall colours, northern lights, and more. This is one of the trips I'm most looking forward to this year!
The company I am contracting with for this trip has hosted Galen Rowell, Art Wolfe, and a host of big-name professional wildlife and nature photographers over the years intent on photographing the best that the barrenlands have to offer. This is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime spectacular trip to the edge of the Thelon, some of Canada's wildest arctic terrain!!
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This trip requires a moderate level of fitness and will involve some moderate hiking (2-5 kms per day). Maximum six participants (plus John).
** not including meals in Baker Lake
Contact John if you are interested in reserving a spot on the Tundra Tour.
Grizzly Bear Tour - Chilcotin Mountains - Grizzly Bears, Black Bears, Sockeye Salmon, Bald Eagles
Trip Departure Point: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Trip Dates: September 26 - October 1, 2010 SOLD OUT! AND October 1-6, 2010 SOLD OUT!
Trip Cost: $2995 + hst, all-inclusive from Vancouver
Availability: Contact John to be put on the 2011 waiting list now! or Click for more information on the Grizzly Bear Photo Tour!
Grizzly Bear Sow and Cub in the Chilcotin Mountains
A unique opportunity to photograph one of British Columbia's largest sockeye salmon runs in the remote fly-in Chilcotin wilderness. This is a new offering for wildlife photographers to a brand new destination that offers mountain grizzly bears (NOT coastal bears!) and black bears, as well as bald eagles, and a host of other wildlife, feeding on the brilliant red sockeye salmon. I visited this isolated region in 2008 and 2009 and was struck by the incredible potential it had for wildlife photography given its remote, difficult-to-get-to location in a stunning mountain setting, full of accommodating bears. Come join me for five days on an exploratory tour of what could become one of Canada's premier grizzly bear photography locations.
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This trip requires a moderate level of fitness. The majority of the photography will be done from boats, with or without tripods/monopods. Expect the photography to be very challenging, but rewarding! Maximum five participants per tour (plus John).
Contact John if you are interested in reserving a spot on a 2011 Grizzly Bear Tour.
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