Photography Workshops
Colby and his team teaches a wide variety of photography workshops around the globe that offer real-world hands-on experience in a creative learning environment while out in the field. They are designed for photographers of all skill levels and aim to help you take your photography and digital editing skills to the next level. If you do not see a workshop that you are interested in, you can have a Private Workshop customized to your needs. For all of your Post Processing needs, please visit the Photo Education section of this website. If you have any questions, please consult the F.A.Q. section of this website.
If the workshop you are interested in is not currently live or has sold out, add your name to our waiting list by clicking HERE.
2024 Photography Workshops
January 7th – 15th, 2024 (SOLD OUT)
January 22nd – 29th, 2024 (SOLD OUT)
Both of our 2024 Costa Rica workshops have sold out. Please click on the above image or the title of this workshop to be taken to our 2025 Costa Rican Wildlife Adventure page.
February 24th – March 2nd, 2024 (SOLD OUT)
Our 2024 Lofoten Islands workshop has sold out. Please click on the above image or the title of this workshop to be taken to our 2025 Lofoten Islands of Norway Photo adventure page for more info.
March 4th – 11th, 2024 (SOLD OUT)
Our 2024 Iceland Winter workshop has sold out. Please click on the above image or the title of this workshop to be taken to our 2025 Iceland Winter Wonderland page for more info.
March 8th – 14th, 2024 (SOLD OUT)
March 16th – 22nd, 2024 (SOLD OUT)
Both of our 2024 Bolivia workshops have sold out. Please click on the above image or the title of this workshop to be taken to our 2025 Bolivian Astro Workshop page for more info.
March 27th – April 5th, 2024 (SOLD OUT)
April 8th – 17th, 2024 (1 Spot Left)
Patagonia is one of the wildest, most beautiful & dramatic mountain ranges on the planet. Our main focus will be exploring the incredible National Park of Torres del Paine in Chile as well as Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina. Home to some of the most impressive mountains in all of the world, let alone in all of Patagonia.
April 18th – 27th, 2024 (2 Spot Left)
Join us on this once-in-a-lifetime experience as we spend 10 days exploring the Argentinian side of Patagonia. Basing out of the town of El Chalten you will have plenty of opportunities to hike the trails between Mt. Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre to find all of the best vantage points.
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May 2nd – 13th, 2024 (SOLD OUT)
We have sold out of our 2024 India Tiger workshop, but you can click on the above image to be taken to our 2025 Tigers of India workshop page for more information.
July 13th-18th, 2024 (3 Spots Left)
Come join us in Greenland for a once in a lifetime bucket list experience as we explore the waters around Ilulissat & Disco bay during the midnight sun using the famous red sail boats you have seen photos of. This is truly the land of fire and ice!
July 20th – 27th, 2024
When it comes to remote landscape destinations, it is hard to find a destination wilder than the Faroe Islands. With its incredible vistas, sheer cliffs, towering mountains, and impressive waterfalls, the Faroe Islands are a relatively untouched part of the world that is worth exploring before it becomes too popular. Come join us on this adventure of a lifetime!
July 27th – August 3rd, 2024 (SOLD OUT)
Uganda is home to some of the most incredible wildlife on this planet, including the endangered Silverback Gorillas. Join me on this incredible adventure through Uganda as we photograph Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Rhinos, Elephants, tree climbing Lions and more!
August 9th – 20th, 2024 (SOLD OUT)
Join us in Kenya for a bucket list experience you will never forget as we explore three incredible National Parks as we set our eyes (and our cameras) on witnessing the great migration of wildebeests throughout the Maasai Mara.
September 3rd – 15th, 2024
Join us in Mongolia for an incredible adventure to one of the most open and vast landscapes on the planet. Here we will not only focus our attention on the fantastic Eagle Hunters of Western Mongolia but also explore sand dunes, look for wild horses and learn more about Astro/night photography in one of the darkest sky locations in the world.
October 19th – 26th, 2024 (3 Spots Left)
The Italian Dolomites are one of the most impressive and photogenic mountain ranges found in the European Alps. As photographers have continued to look for new landscapes to explore, the Dolomites have quickly risen to the top of many landscape photographers’ bucket lists in recent years.
November 2024 (Launching Soon!)
Japan is one of the most incredible countries in the world, with its mixture of futuristic cities like Tokyo, incredible landscapes, and captivating cultural history. Join Andy Yee and me as we explore Japan at the peak of fall color in the region.
Join the Photography Workshop Waitlist to learn more about any upcoming adventures...
Join the Workshop Waitlist to learn more about any upcoming adventures...
2025 Photography Workshops
January 6th – 14th, 2025 (2 Spots Left)
Join us for an incredible adventure to Costa Rica, one of the most biologically diverse locations on the planet. Here we help teach you all there is to know about wildlife photography as we explore jungles, forests, beaches, and much more in our pursuit to photograph all of the incredible species found in this amazing country.
February 1st – 8th, 2025
Our focus will be on capturing the beauty of the Cuban people, culture, and architecture throughout the Island of Cuba. From the classic cars and oceanside highways in Havana to the cobblestone streets of Trinidad and everything in between. With so much uncertainty in the US/Cuban relationship, NOW is the time to go!
February 22nd – March 1st, 2025
Join us this February as we explore this impressive series of Islands located above the Arctic Circle. While we will work hard to get you in the right spot for both sunrise and sunset, with over half the day steeped in darkness, our main focus will be to chase any Aurora activity possible throughout our time in the Lofoten Islands.
February 26th – March 3rd, 2025 (4 Spots Left)
With one of the darkest skies on the planet, the Salar de Uyuni salt flats of Bolivia are arguably the best place in the world to photograph the Milky Way and experiment with astrophotography. In February, the salt flats often fill up with a thin layer of water, allowing for incredible reflections with the night sky above.
March 3rd – 10th, 2025
Winter in Iceland is one of those unique experiences that everyone should have at least once in their life. With this workshop, we will focus our time on the South of Iceland, focusing our time on Ice Caves, Northern Lights, and glaciers, but we will also photograph several waterfalls such as Gullfoss, Bruarfoss, Seljalandsfoss, Skogarfoss and more.
April 1st – 10th, 2025 (3 Spots Left)
Patagonia is one of the wildest, most beautiful & dramatic mountain ranges on the planet. Our main focus will be exploring the incredible National Park of Torres del Paine in Chile as well as Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina. Home to some of the most impressive mountains in all of the world, let alone in all of Patagonia.
March 20th – 31st, 2025 (SOLD OUT)
Join me in India for a trip of a lifetime to India to photograph the incredible and elusive Bengal Tiger. We will focus our attention on two of my favorite National Parks in the country, Bandhavgarh & Ranthambore as we maximize our time between the two parks to come away with the absolute best tiger photos possible!
The Polar Bears of Svalvard
Summer 2025 (COMING SOON)
Join us for an incredible adventure to Svalbard, Norway where we photograph one of the most endangered mammals on the planet, the Polar Bear. When it comes to bucket list destinations, this should be at the top of every wildlife photographer on the planet.
May 2025 (Coming Soon)
Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime experience to photograph Proboscis Monkeys & Orangutangs on the island of Borneo before we fly to Komodo National Park in Indonesia for a 3-day live-aboard adventure to experience the world’s largest lizard, the Komodo Dragon!
Alaskan Brown Bears
July 2025 (COMING SOON)
Join us for an incredible adventure to Alaska as we explore the area around Lake Clark National Park on a private concession to photograph a wide variety of Alaskan Coastal Brown Bears. This is a trip you don’t want to miss!
July 31st – August 7th, 2025
Join us for an incredible wildlife photo adventure to Brazil to photograph one of the most elusive and powerful big cats in the world, the Jaguar. Our core focus is on the Pantanal region of the lower Amazon Basin, easily one of the most biologically diverse regions on the planet!
August 2025 (COMING SOON)
Join us in Kenya for a bucket list experience you will never forget as we explore three incredible National Parks as we set our eyes (and our cameras) on witnessing the great migration of wildebeests throughout the Maasai Mara.
THE ISLAND OF MADAGASCAR
October 2025 (COMING SOON)
Join us on this spectacular photographic adventure to the Island of Madagascar. It is truly one of the most biologically unique locations on the planet. This wildlife photography workshop will focus not only on covering general wildlife photography of the incredible bird and mammal species on the island but also cover the use of flash with the unique frogs, snakes, and chameleons we find as well.
October 2025 (COMING SOON)
Join us for this once-in-a-lifetime trip to Ethiopia as we explore all that this country has to offer. From the ancient Christian churches found around Lalibela to the Gelada Monkey’s of the Simien Mountains to the unique and incredble Omo Tribes found in the rift valley. This adventure has it all!
Possible Future Photography Workshops
MYSTIC MYANMAR
TBD 2025
Myanmar is one of the few mysterious and exotic locations left on the planet. After opening up its boarders a little over six years ago, it has quickly become a hot spot for travels and photographers. We visit Bagan, Yangon, Inle Lake and more as we explore this incredible Buddhist country and all it has to offer.
TBD 2026
Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to South Georgia Island, located near the Falkland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula for one of the largest wildlife spectacles on Earth! Visit areas full of hundreds of thousands of King Penguins, Elephant Seals, Fur Seals and much much more!
AntarcticA - The Deep South
TBD 2026
As one of the last truly wild places left on this planet, Antarctica is home to some of the most amazing landscapes on Planet Earth. This adventure will contain massive icebergs the size of cities, penguin colonies with 20k+ inhabitants to the rare experience of dipping below the Antarctic Circle.
TBD 2025
Join us in New Zealand for an incredible photography workshop experience as we explore the South Island of one of the most beautiful countries in the world. A lot more details to come!
Summer 2025 (Coming Soon)
While Alaska often gets much of the focus when it comes to photographing Brown Bears, the Lakeland district of Finland, on the border with Russia, is home to a sizeable population of incredible Brown Bears. In July, you have the chance to not only see them with Cubs, but you will be able to photograph them throughout the night as the midnight sun helps to provide incredible opportunities to photograph Brown Bears in action!
Workshop Testimonials
Costa Rica was my first Colby Brown trip and I’m sure it won’t be my last. As a beginner, I was the least experienced photographer in the group, but Colby was patient and taught me about so many of the functions on my Sony A7RIV. In addition, we all learned a lot about Marco and Flash Photography as we took photos of frogs and snakes close up and personal. So much fun!
Each day was different and well planned out. Kenneth, the local guide was great in finding us birds, frogs, snakes and bats to photograph as well as being an amazing photographer himself, which came in handy as I needed assistance. The other participants in the group were from all over the world and by the end of our short trip we were all friends exchanging contact information. Can’t wait for my next Colby Brown experience!
I have always wanted to visit the wild, unpredictable and rugged landscape of Patagonia and I am really happy I got to finally have this experience through the Wild Patagonia Workshop with Colby & Pedro. Really enjoyed the locations we stayed, the group we travelled with and the photographic knowledge, advice and instruction freely provided by both Colby and Pedro - all made for a great & memorable trip with some awesome photos too !. Thank you!
We had a small group of really great people. Our guide (Pedro) really knew his shit. He knew the when and where to make amazing photos. Not since the birth of my children have I been as awestruck as when I witnessed the northern lights! This was a trip of a lifetime. I can’t say it loud enough.
The Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flat in the world, is breathtaking. Just standing in the middle of its 2,496,000 acres, with the vast expanse of Andean Dark Sky and millions of stars suspended over you, is well worth the price of admission. But of course, this is a Colby Brown workshop so there is so much more! Based on Colby's extensive travel in South America, you are skillfully guided to some of the more remote and untraveled areas in South America — places where few Nortemaricanos go. You get authoritative training to do things like Astro panoramas or stacking high-resolution shots of the galactic core, and other tricks of the trade. There is a night in a remote Andean lodge at 15,000 ft near the famous Lago Colorado and its flamingos. There is time to explore La Paz, Bolivia, where I had one of the best meals of my life. But perhaps the best thing about Colby Brown workshops is the amazing and interesting people they attract. In each workshop, I get new lifelong friends. Bolivia was no exception!
I'm a full time working photographer who is always looking to further my skills. After chatting with Colby I decided that his Iceland photography workshop would be a great fit for me and I was right. Colby pays special attention to individual needs and will keep handing out the knowledge for as long as you keep asking for it. I would recommend a Colby Brown workshop for anyone from a pure beginner photographer to a working professional.
I attended the Iceland Winter Workshop in Winter 2017. Although weather conditions didn't hold up (you can never expect anything in Iceland) Colby and his assistant Peyton made sure we still had an amazing experience and that we took advantage of every moment of light, weather pattern, or clear sky possible. They both were organized and made sure we were more then prepared for the trip starting months before the workshop and from the moment we arrived in Iceland everything was well organized. I liked that nothing was too set in stone as this allowed us flexibility to take advantage of the every changing weather conditions. It also helps that Colby has been to Iceland almost 30 times so he definitely knows the country well. The small group size allowed for more personal attention as well as development of camaraderie amongst ourselves, so much that we have planned future workshops together. I'm looking forward to coming back again and wouldn't hesitate to do the exact same workshop as I feel like I only scratched the surface of photographic possibilities to be had in Iceland.
