Photography Tours, Workshops & Safaris
Backcountry Journeys Photography Tours, Workshops & Safaris offer a seamless adventure travel experience where we handle the details so you can focus on photography. Our world-class service and small groups allow for a personalized experience that allows you plenty of one on one time with your photography guide. Backcountry Journeys offers lodge-based Photography Tours and wilderness camping trips in the most pristine and remote mountains, deserts and wildlife rich wilderness areas of the world. We meticulously research and tirelessly scout every visually stunning destination to ensure you get the best possible experience from the moment you arrive. Our professional guides will share with you their wealth of experience photographing landscapes & wildlife all over the world! Click here to learn more.Â
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Landscape & Wildlife Photography
Whether your passion is wildlife photography or creating stunning landscapes – we’ve got you covered. With a variety of photographic safaris, hiking trips, photography workshops & expeditions around the globe Backcountry Journeys has something for everyone. Destinations include African Safaris, Alaska, Yellowstone & Grand Teton, Glacier National Park, the American Southwest, Yosemite, Utah, Iceland, Hawaii, Costa Rica, the Great Smoky Mountains, India & more.
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BCJ “Live”
Live events & webinars from the comfort of your own home. Free webinars on a variety of photography related topics – from photo editing to composition & more.
Trip Schedule
Explore our upcoming trip schedule from photography starts next week to several years out – see our entire full roster of scheduled departures
YouTube Channel
All of our previously recorded webinars, live events as well as a variety of instructional photography videos! Discover our video library on YouTube!
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Explore Your World!
“Backcountry Journeys offers an incredible variety of both Lodge-Based and Wilderness Camping Photography trips. Our trips offer guests the unique opportunity to explore the natural world from behind their own lens with landscape and wildlife photography being the focus. We run a selection of hand-crafted Photo Tour, Workshop & Safari itineraries all around the world. New trips and itineraries are being added all the time so check back often!”
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Trip Styles: Standard, Hiker & Boat-Based
We offer both standard & boat-based photography trips as well as hiker trips that cater to those who want to put on the miles in order to get the shot!
Accommodations are always included and we have several different styles that can range from comfortable lodge-based itineraries to remote wilderness camping trips. Read more about our trips styles by clicking below – join Backcountry Journeys this year ‘in the field!’
Learn With Backcountry Journeys!
We offer a variety of both online & classroom based photography and post-processing workshops. We also offer Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop instruction – online from the comfort of your home as well as a variety of instructional webinars.
Whether you’ve been dabbling in post-processing for years or are just beginning – our dedicated photo pros will meet you right at your level.
Guest Testimonials
With a consistent 5-Star Rating on Trip Advisor – Backcountry Journeys offers a better photography workshop experience.
We set the bar high – But don’t just take it from us! Read past guest testimonials on Trip Advisor and see for yourself how Backcountry Journeys sets the gold standard for outdoor photography travel.
Join our TRIBE today! Get 10% off Backcountry Journeys Trips
Join our exclusive membership community of like-minded nature photographers and score some fantastic deals on future trips, photo equipment, outdoor gear and rental gear. The most important benefit of joining the tribe is that you immediately get 10% off all Backcountry Journeys trips for the lifetime of your membership. Your membership pays for itself immediately upon booking your first trip!
Trip Report: Yellowstone Wildlife Safari – October 2021
/0 Comments/in Images, News, Rambles, Trip Reports /by Ben BlankenshipWhen my plane touched down in Bozeman, Montana, the skies were blue, the sun was shining, and temperatures pleasantly warm. I was arriving in preparation for this autumn’s Yellowstone Wildlife Safari, and during my two days of scouting conditions were ideal. A warm sun illuminated the sagebrush valleys in soft light, and white wispy clouds […]