OUR MISSION Our mission is to provide you with the best photographic experience, combining learning, both in the field and classroom, with unparalleled access to the best image making opportunities. We also make it a priority to ensure that you are surrounded by a fun and creative environment that fosters your individual growth. It is our guarantee that you will go home with stunning imagery and a memorable/joyful experience. Our trips/workshops are meticulously planned with attention to detail. From hotels, food, transportation and shooting logistics, all arrangements come together to provide you with a photographic adventure that runs smoothly and maximizes your shooting opportunities. All of our itineraries are tailored to get you to the best locations, during the right season and at the right time of the day. “Very few people have the opportunity to go to the places we go.� Tracking the sun, the moon and the stars are just some of the elements that go into our planning process. You will have in the field coaching to make sure you get the best rendition of the scene in front of you and that you are able to make that image in camera with little or no post processing. During your down time, we provide one on one critique sessions to make the most of your learning experience.
Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks sit atop of one of the most active geological regions in the world. Everywhere you look, every trail you take, reminds you of the forces responsible for shaping our planet; forces that are very much at work today. This altered universe is full of life and wonders; energies capable of destroying, create a paradise like no other.
GRAND TETON & YELLOWSTONE
This photo-trip is designed to maximize your shooting time, placing you at the right places at the right time to see, photograph and experience what basically no one does. We start our days well before dawn when parks are empty and all the magic happens. The weather is unpredictable and that is what guarantees great pictures. Fog, rain, snow, sun or clouds will be the perfect props for your imagery. Yellowstone and the Grand Teton grow on you. Watching the sunrise light the glacier lakes with the sky-high mountains as the background is a heavenly experience. This is also the time of the great deer and bison migrations, so wildlife encounters are guaranteed. In Yellowstone, we photograph every single corner of the park; again, focusing on those sites that are unique for image making. We will light paint geysers with a star studded sky as backdrop, we will photograph forests of dead trees covered in the pre-sunrise fog and join bison and deer as they wake up to the roar of steam vents and erupting geysers.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS DAY 1 JACKSON HOLE
I have studied every corner of this ecosystem and can promise you the best photography experience ever. In this corner of our planet, every minute is different, grandiose and spectacular. Arrive in Jackson Hole, WY.
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GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
Depart for Grand Teton National Park – rising above a scene rich with extraordinary wildlife, pristine lakes, and alpine terrain, the Teton Range stands monument to the people who fought to protect it. These are mountains of the imagination that lead to the creation of Grand Teton National Park where you can explore over two hundred miles of trails, float the Snake River or enjoy the serenity of this remarkable place.
Depart for Yellowstone National Park to experience the world’s first national park where you will marvel at a volcano’s hidden power rising up in colorful hot springs, mud-pots, and geysers. You will explore mountains, forests, and lakes to watch wildlife and witness the drama of the natural world unfold.
We have an early start, as we will photograph Jenny Lake and Mormon Row. After our first shoot, we will have breakfast. You will then have the opportunity to edit and rest. Right before we depart for our next photographic opportunity, you will have your photo critique. Right after, we depart for Grand Teton and photograph Oxbow Area.
We will have lunch in the park and photograph in the Upper Geyser Area (Old Faithful).
We return to town for dinner.
DAY 3
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GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
We depart for Grand Teton National Park and will photograph Oxbow Bend followed by breakfast. You will then have the opportunity to edit and rest. Right before we depart for our next photographic opportunity, you will have your photo critique. We then depart for Grand Teton and photograph Kelly-Mormon Row.
We have an early start, as we will photograph Upper Geyser (Castle Geyser Area) at sunrise. After this shoot, we will have breakfast. You will then have the opportunity to edit and rest.
We return to town for dinner.
Right before we depart for our next photographic opportunity, you will have your photo critique. In the mid afternoon, we depart for Canyon Village, North Rim: Lookout Point, South Rim: Upper View/Artist.
DAY 6 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
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Depart for Yellowstone and photograph Midway Geyser at sunrise. After this shoot, we will have breakfast. You will then have the opportunity to edit and rest. Right before we depart for our next photographic opportunity, you will have your photo critique. Depart for Yellowstone and photograph West Thumb Geyser area.
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
PACKAGE PRICE: $ 2,295 Sign up deposit: $ 500
Price includes: Includes 8 days/8 nights of accommodation, tuition, local transportation Early morning shoot at the Lower Geyser Basin. After this shoot, we will have breakfast, and have the opportunity to edit and rest. Right before we depart for our next photographic opportunity, you will have your photo critique. In the afternoon, we photograph the Mammoth Hot Springs area.
DAY 8 JACKSON HOLE Depart for Jackson Hole Airport
Price is per person, SINGLE occupancy Airfare from/to your home cities, meals not listed above, alcohol, personal expenses, visas if required are not included This workshop is limited to 5 participants
YOUR WORKSHOP LEADER
RAUL TOUZON is a Documentary and Natural History Photographer who specializes in making images
Raul will guide you in creating unique images. We have several photography workshops that will provide you with a learning experience in some of the most unique places
that convey what he refers to as “THE ETERNITY OF THE MOMENT.” Raul has traveled extensively, exploring the remote corners of the earth never visited before. Amongst his expeditions are the completion of the Northwest Passage, Franz Josef Land in the Russian Arctic, the Sea of Okhotsk and the fjords of western Greenland. He has built a collection of dramatic photographs that have been featured in many publications including: TIME Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler and the National Geographic Magazine, where he has published four feature stories. In recent years, Raul has focused on visual-storytelling, documenting the Day of the Dead in Oaxaca, Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala and the ever-changing Habana. For over a decade, Raul has been a full time educator and instructor. He produces and teaches his own workshops and photography expeditions around the world as well as for National Geographic Expeditions. National Geographic Creative, Getty Images and Corbis represent his images. His list of clients includes the U.S. National Park Service, Apple Inc., and the United Nations for whom he documented their operations in Sudan. These images can be seen in his book SUDAN THE PRICE OF WAR, THE STRUGGLE FOR PEACE. Raul has pioneered the production of large-scale multi-frame panoramas, images that are featured in his two limited edition landscape books: VISIONS OF MY WORLD and JOURNEYS. Some of the images in these books have been sold by Christie’s Auction House. Most recently, his work is being featured at The National Geographic Fine Art Galleries opening all over the United States.