Photographer-led 路 India, Africa & Beyond
Led by a mentor, from first light to last.
Pick the animal, then the ground.
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October 2026
23 OCT - 26 OCT
Panna Photography Workshop
Four days in the Madla zone with one mentor, one vehicle and one guide. Six mentored drives.
India4 days4 guestsTarun Siwach
December 2026
03 DEC - 06 DEC
Tadoba Tiger Safari
India's forests, at their most alive.
4 days6 guestsTarun Siwach
10 DEC - 13 DEC
Corbett Tiger Safari
India's forests, at their most alive.
4 days6 guestsTarun Siwach
18 DEC - 21 DEC
Bandhavgarh Tiger Safari
India's forests, at their most alive.
India4 days6 guestsTarun Siwach
January 2027
10 JAN - 16 JAN
Kenya Safari
The greatest wildlife theatre on Earth.
African Safaris7 days6 guestsTarun Siwach
21 JAN - 24 JAN
Bandhavgarh Tiger Safari
India's forests, at their most alive.
India4 days6 guestsTarun Siwach
28 JAN - 31 JAN
Tadoba Tiger Safari
India's forests, at their most alive.
4 days6 guestsTarun Siwach
February 2027
05 FEB - 07 FEB
Ranthambore Tiger Safari
India's forests, at their most alive.
3 days6 guestsTarun Siwach
20 FEB - 28 FEB
Spiti Snow Leopard Expedition
The ghost of the mountains, tracked in silence.
9 days6 guestsTarun Siwach
March 2027
06 MAR - 14 MAR
Spiti Snow Leopard Expedition
The ghost of the mountains, tracked in silence.
9 days6 guestsTarun Siwach
19 MAR - 22 MAR
Panna Photography Workshop
Four days in the Madla zone with one mentor, one vehicle and one guide. Six mentored drives.
India4 days4 guestsTarun Siwach
May 2027
25 MAY - 30 MAY
Kenya Safari
The greatest wildlife theatre on Earth.
African Safaris6 days6 guestsTarun Siwach
June 2027
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Dates, prices and seat counts shown are indicative. Every departure is priced and confirmed by enquiry. There is no online payment on this site.
The disc beside each date is the moon's illuminated fraction on the day you arrive.
Dates, prices and seat counts shown are indicative. Every departure is priced and confirmed by enquiry. There is no online payment on this site.
Expeditions, compared honestly.
Physical demand and light are the two things people underestimate.
Compared across target species, season, duration, group size, physical demand and light.
Drag to compare| Attribute | Kenya Safari | Serengeti Safari | Spiti Snow Leopard Expedition | Bandhavgarh Tiger Safari | Ranthambore Tiger Safari | Corbett Tiger Safari | Tadoba Tiger Safari | Panna Photography Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target | Snow Leopard | Bengal Tiger | Bengal Tiger | Bengal Tiger | Bengal Tiger | Indian Leopard, Bengal Tiger | ||
| Season | Jan, May | Feb, Jun | Feb, Mar | Dec, Jan | Feb | Dec | Dec, Jan | Oct, Mar |
| Duration | 7 Days | 7 Days | 9 Days | 4 Days | 3 Days | 4 Days | 4 Days | 4 Days |
| Group | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| Read more | Details | Details | Details | Details | Details | Details | Details | Details |
Fourteen hours, one park.
A February day at Bandhavgarh. The shape holds; the hours move with the season.
Coffee, no conversation
Bodies checked, cards in, lenses out of the bags and onto the beanbags before you leave the room. The gate opens at first light and the queue matters.
Through the gate
The first forty minutes are the coldest and the best. Alarm calls carry further in still air, and the light is doing something you cannot get back at any other hour.
The decision
Either you are on an animal or you are not. If you are, you stay: two hours in one position is normal. If you are not, we move to where the tracks were fresh yesterday.
Out, and breakfast
Back before the heat. Cards come off, batteries go on, and the morning gets talked through while it is still fresh enough to argue about.
Review, or sleep
Not optional on review days. On the others, take the four hours - the evening drive is the one that usually delivers, and tired photographers miss things.
Back in
Hard overhead light for the first hour, which is a good hour to work on habitat frames and behaviour rather than portraits.
The twenty minutes
Everything the day was arranged around. Shutter speeds you were taught to refuse, and the frames most people end up printing.
Cards on the table
Selects, near-misses, and the specific reason a frame did not work. Then what to change before 05:10.
Good to know
Open vehicle: dress in layers for the cold dawn 路 Park timings are set by the reserve and shift with the season 路 Your mentor rides in the vehicle with you 路 Facilities at the breakfast halt are simple
Not a course. A week of being corrected.
There is no syllabus and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What there is: a working photographer in the seat next to you, six people instead of sixteen, and an honest account every evening of why a frame did not hold.
- 01Metering a backlit animal against dust or water without losing the subject
- 02Working below your comfortable shutter speed, and knowing the keeper rate to expect
- 03Reading behaviour early enough to be pointed the right way
- 04Choosing background before subject, which is the habit that changes most portfolios
- 05Editing down to the four frames that are actually worth showing
You leave with fewer frames, better chosen, and a way of seeing that travels to every place you photograph.
What photographers and families said once they were home.
I came back with four frames I would print. On previous trips I came back with four hundred I would not.
The vehicle stopped where the light was, not where the animal was. Nobody had done that with me before.
Six of us, one leader, and an evening review that was genuinely critical. That is what I paid for.
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