NAMIBIA LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

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Welcome to landscape photography heaven. 

Namibia is a landscape photographer’s dream. With its red dunes, its mighty gorges, and its desolate coast lines, the country provides fascinating and at times surreal scenes that are immensely photogenic.

Join us for an exploration of some of Namibia’s most impressive landscapes during this 13-day photography workshop. We’ll take you to the impressive Fish River Canyon, the famous Sossusvlei, and the Quiver Tree Forest. We’ll photograph deserted towns where sand has reclaimed buildings. We’ll enjoy ever-changing landscapes during the magical light at Africa’s dawn and dusk. Along the way, you’ll be assisted by two professional photographers, who will help you improve your skills and take incredible pictures.

QUICK FACTS
Namibia
November 1 – 14, 2023 
Landscape Photography
Leader: Emil von Maltitz & Nick van de Wiel
Group Size: Max. 6
All Photography Levels
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
  • Photograph Namibia’s wide variety of spectacular and surreal landscapes during a 14-day photo workshop
  • Visit the famous Fish River Canyon, Sossusvlei, and Quiver Tree Forest
  • Receive photographing tutoring by two professional photographers, and travel in a small group so that personal attention is guaranteed
  • Photograph the surreal tableaus of sand dunes invading ruins in the ghost town of Kolmanskop
  • Enjoy a holiday that is fully designed by and for photographers, ensuring that you will get the best possible photographic opportunities
  • Improve your photography and put your skills into practice straight away, in incredible settings
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variety of spectacular and surreal landscapes

Photograph Namibia’s wide variety of spectacular and surreal landscapes during a 13-day photo workshop

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Fish River Canyon, Sossusvlei, and Quiver Tree Forest

Visit the famous Fish River Canyon, Sossusvlei, and Quiver Tree Forest

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Receive photographing tutoring by two professional photographers

Receive photographing tutoring by two professional photographers, and travel in a small group so that personal attention is guaranteed

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The ghost town of Kolmanskop

Photograph the surreal tableaus of sand dunes invading ruins in the ghost town of Kolmanskop

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Enjoy a holiday that is fully designed by and for photographers

Enjoy a holiday that is fully designed by and for photographers, ensuring that you will get the best possible photographic opportunities

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Improve your photography

Improve your photography and put your skills into practice straight away, in incredible settings

  1. Variety of spectacular and surreal landscapes
  2. Fish River Canyon, Sossusvlei, and Quiver Tree Forest
  3. Receive photographing tutoring by two professional photographers
  4. The ghost town of Kolmanskop
  5. Enjoy a holiday that is fully designed by and for photographers
  6. Improve your photography
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THE DESTINATION

Namibia is a place of effortlessly beautiful landscapes; some of the most stunning in Africa. It possesses ancient deserts, dramatic canyons, distinctive rock formations, and glorious red sand dunes. These landscapes, which stand out against stark blue skies, are a feast for landscape photographers. There’s an endless amount of stimulation and challenge, and on this landscape photography workshop, we’ll make sure to take you to Namibia’s scenic highlights. These include the magical Quiver Tree Forest, Fish River Canyon, the deserted mining town of Kolmanskop, the red dunes at the famous Sossusvlei and Dead Vlei in the Namib Desert, and the iconic Spitzkoppe Mountains.

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THE PHOTOGRAPHY

This Namibia photography workshop is fully designed around photography; we’ll take you to the most visually stimulating locations, at the best possible times. The main focus in landscape photography and we couldn’t think of a more exciting setting; Namibia’s landscapes are spectacular and unique, as well as incredibly diverse. Expect to photograph impressive gorges, striking dunes and rock formations, surreal scenes of a desert ghost town, and inspiring forests of quiver trees.

YOUR WORKSHOP

Throughout this Namibia photo tour, Emil and Nick will be providing you with workshops that will help you hone your photography skills. Teaching sessions will cover creative, technical and editing aspects. Tutoring is very much tailor-made to everyone’s needs, and we will make sure to cover everything each individual participants wants to learn. Therefore, this workshop is suitable for both beginners and experienced photographers. Where and when required, the group can even divided so that our two instructors and their assistant can each teach different topics and at different levels.

The sessions will most likely include the following:

  • Creative Composition: the basics and beyond, such as the element approach, balancing composition etc
  • Basics to advanced techniques in digital landscape photography. There are three instructors meaning that virtually all levels of photographer can be catered for.
  • Workflow & digital asset management
  • How to create awe-inspiring astrophotography and star trail images
  • Painting with light
  • How to create panoramic images
  • How to create time lapses (optional)
  • Post-production using Lightroom and Photoshop
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YOUR 14-DAY ITINERARY

Day 1 : Arrival Windhoek Airport

You’ll be met at Windhoek Airport and transferred to our first accommodation, where there is time to spend the rest of the day relaxing by the pool and resting after the long journey. One of the photography workshop leaders will be there to meet the guests and can familiarize everyone with the plan for the next exciting two weeks!

Day 2 : Journey to Keetmanshoop

After breakfast in Windhoek, we’ll start the beautiful journey to Keetmanshoop. In the afternoon, we’ll have a short introductory lecture and a photography session amongst the famous Quiver trees and dolomite rock formations. We’ll shoot from multiple locations at this phenomenal site.

Day 3 : Quiver Tree Forest

We’ll get up up early for a dawn shoot at Quiver Tree Forest. We will also have some guided editing time in the afternoon, followed by another photography session in the evening. We’ll end the day by photographing star-trails.

Day 4 : Fish River Canyon

We’ll start our day with an optional dawn shoot and after breakfast, we’ll set off to the amazing Fish River Canyon. After lunch at the lodge, we will have some time to relax. In the evening we will be doing a photo shoot of the canyon itself. We will arrive in time to watch the light settle on the horizon and cast shadows through this giant’s playground of erosion. We’ll watch the last of the light before heading to dinner.

Day 5 & 6 : Travel to the coastal town of Luderitz

We’ll leave the magnificent Fish River Canyon after a critique session and travel to the coastal town of Luderitz. To break up the drive, we will stop at an old railway house to have a short photo shoot. After that, we’ll head to the amazing and hauntingly beautiful abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop, which is incredible to photograph. We will be staying at the comfortable Luderitz Nest Hotel, which has its own tidal beach and walk-on jetty.

As photographers, we are able to arrange for a special permit to enter Kolmanskop before dawn. This allows for a fantastic opportunity to walk through these decrepit buildings that the desert is slowly invading. We’ll spend the full morning here photographing this surreal tableau before returning to the Nest hotel for lunch. We’ll return again in the late afternoon to shoot during the warm afternoon-light, followed by an evening photographing the stars.

Day 7 - 9 : Sesriem Canyon and the Namib-Naukluft National Park

We’ll drive to Sesriem Canyon and the Namib-Naukluft National Park, where we’ll spend three days photographing Sossusvlei and Dead Vlei. In the evening, we’ll have dinner and relax at the lodge, which overlooks the start of the glorious red dunes.

On day eight we’ll be up early to get shots of the famous Sossusvlei in the best possible light. You’ll also have the option to book a helicopter or plane flight over the dunes. This offers a great way to see and photograph the famous dunes from a different perspective. After our photo shoot of Sossusvlei, or your exciting flight, we return to the lodge for a rest followed by some teaching and guided editing time. This evening we will photograph Deadvlei with its iconic trees.

Day nine will start early and will allow you to take star trail images over the stark skeletal tree forms of Dead Vlei. This will be followed by a morning shoot in the same location. The stars are spectacular and well worth the lack of sleep! After our morning shoot we’ll head back to the lodge for a rest. In the afternoon, we will have another critique session, followed by another opportunity to photograph Sossusvlei. Those who have not taken their scenic flight yet will do so in the late afternoon/evening. (NB the helicopter or plane flight will be dependent upon availability and the weather).

Day 10 : Travel to Swakopmund

After a sunset session near Sossusvlei, we’ll head off towards Swakopmund on the coast. We drive around the edge of the Namib Naukluft National Park, edging our way towards the enormous dunes that march along the coastline. Our destination is Hotel Pension Rapmund, close to the Swakopmund Harbour, where we relax for the evening and get ready for a truly exciting day.

Day 11: Pelicans and dunes

As a break from landscape photography, our day starts by taking a small boat out onto the waters of the Swakopmund harbour. This trip allow for unparalleled access to the population of Pink-backed Pelicans and Flamingos that abound in this area. The pelicans literally fly alongside the boat, allowing for wide-angle photography of birds in flight. After lunch we take a guided tour into the dunes at teh edge of the Skeleton Coast for a sunset shoot of the extraordinary colours of the sand as they glow pink-orange against the blue of the Atlantic Ocean.

Day 12 & 13 : Spitzkoppe

After a leisurely start to the morning we drive out north and then east towards the interior once more, heading towards the extraordinary rock monolith that is Spitzkoppe. We arrive by lunchtime allowing some much-earned rest before heading out to explore the amazing rock features of Spitzkoppe and Pontok Mountains. We finish the day with sundowners looking towards Spitzkoppe and photographign the dying light as it burns the mountain bright orange.Our location within the park in the luxurious Spitzkoppe Lodge allows for round the clock access to the rock arches and cliffs of the mountain. Depending on the weather, we plan to head towards the arches after dinner in order to photograph the mountain against the stars.

Our last active day of shooting starts with an early morning rise for stars and then sunrise at the arch. After breakfast we’ll spend a good deal of time finishing up with critique sessions and guided editing.

Day 14: Departure from Windhoek

During this last morning of the trip, we’ll enjoy a last (optional) dawn photo-shoot at this magnificent location in Spitzkoppe. Afterwards, we’ll make our way back to Windhoek, where you  canopt to fly out immediately or organize to stay near to the airport for a more leisurely departure the following day.

QUICK FACTS
Namibia
November 1 – 14, 2023 
Landscape Photography
Leader: Emil von Maltitz & Nick van de Wiel
Group Size: Max. 6
All Photography Levels

€ 6935

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INCLUDES
  • Pickup and drop off from Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport
  • All lodging (based upon sharing)
  • Dinner day 1, breakfast, lunch, dinner day 2-13, breakfast & lunch day 14
  • Local tips for guides and for restaurants
  • Photography guidance by two professional photographers and an assistant
  • All tuition including teaching material and hand-outs
  • All entrance fees and photography permits
  • All road transport in comfortable 4×4 vehicles
  • All toll and parking fees
EXCLUDES
  • Airfares to and from Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport
  • Single room supplement
  • Drinks and non-meal time snacks
  • Optional helicopter or Cessna flight over Sossus Vlei (± R1800-4500 pp)
  • Possible extra excursions/ activities and/or additional days
  • Travel insurance
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RECOMMENDED EQUIPMENT
  • SLR camera
  • A good quality tripod
  • A range of lenses, including a wide angle lens and a telephoto lens
  • A camera remote (cable release) or intervalometer
  • Filters
  • A laptop with editing software
  • A back-up hard drive

WORKSHOP LEADER

Photographer on a dune in Namibia

Emil von Maltitz is an internationally recognized South African landscape photographer and member of the International Environmental Photographers Association. He has been involved in photography for the better part of the last two decades. After completing his post-graduate degree in anthropology, he opted to pursue his dream and turn his passion for photography into his career. Along with freelance commercial and assignment photography, Emil spends time running a number of photographic workshops. Well-versed and knowledgeable in the Adobe suites, Emil will be able to help and guide in photo-editing and several advanced photographic techniques during the workshop.

Nick van de Wiel is a specialised nature photographer and photographic guide based in St. Lucia, South Africa. Trained as a biologist as well as safari guide, Nick revels being in the bush, and if possible, with a camera in hand! Although he started of as a Wildlife Photographer, as his photography matured he moved more and more towards Landscape Photography. Although technically very able, both ‘in camera’ as well as with post processing, Nick is very focussed on the creative as well as meditative aspect of photography.

€ 6935

pp sharing

INCLUDES
  • Pickup and drop off from Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport
  • All lodging (based upon sharing)
  • Dinner day 1, breakfast, lunch, dinner day 2-13, breakfast & lunch day 14
  • Local tips for guides and for restaurants
  • Photography guidance by two professional photographers and an assistant
  • All tuition including teaching material and hand-outs
  • All entrance fees and photography permits
  • All road transport in comfortable 4×4 vehicles
  • All toll and parking fees
EXCLUDES
  • Airfares to and from Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport
  • Single room supplement
  • Drinks and non-meal time snacks
  • Optional helicopter or Cessna flight over Sossus Vlei (± R1800-4500 pp)
  • Possible extra excursions/ activities and/or additional days
  • Travel insurance

WORKSHOP LEADER

Photographer on a dune in Namibia

Emil von Maltitz is an internationally recognized South African landscape photographer and member of the International Environmental Photographers Association. He has been involved in photography for the better part of the last two decades. After completing his post-graduate degree in anthropology, he opted to pursue his dream and turn his passion for photography into his career. Along with freelance commercial and assignment photography, Emil spends time running a number of photographic workshops. Well-versed and knowledgeable in the Adobe suites, Emil will be able to help and guide in photo-editing and several advanced photographic techniques during the workshop.

Nick van de Wiel is a specialised nature photographer and photographic guide based in St. Lucia, South Africa. Trained as a biologist as well as safari guide, Nick revels being in the bush, and if possible, with a camera in hand! Although he started of as a Wildlife Photographer, as his photography matured he moved more and more towards Landscape Photography. Although technically very able, both ‘in camera’ as well as with post processing, Nick is very focussed on the creative as well as meditative aspect of photography.

What they’re Saying

A fan-bloody-tactic tour. The level of tuition was outstanding, with Nick and Emil making themselves always available. Nick with his unflappable attention to tour details and logistics, his concern for guests’ comfort and enjoyment. Emil with his exuberant and ever present photographer’s admiration of every vista that this magnificent country presents, his unending enthusiasm, and his phenomenal knowledge of photography. Enjoyment level 10 of out 10.

Mark Weaver

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