Outdoor Photo Journey offers small group photography workshops in the outdoors. With personalized hands-on instruction in the field, our workshops help you learn to use your tool, the camera. You come away with an understanding of how to make photographs instead of just taking them.

We offer photography workshops not photography tours. Tours simply take you to a location and let you wander off on your own to find things to shoot. Not here. In our workshops we work one-on-one with each participant, helping to answer any of their questions along the way. At the end of the workshop what participants come away with are not just better photographs, but a better understanding of photography, better compositions and most importantly, a skill set they now have and can use on future adventures.

Ariel Estulin

Lead Instructor

 
Ariel Estulin is an award winning photographer and photo educator. Primarily interested in landscapes, he travels the world seeking out beauty in those wild and remote places on earth that still remain untouched by civilization and where nature commands ultimate attention.

Self-taught as a photographer, he spent time with Freeman Patterson, Canada’s renowned photographer, to learn the art of making great photographs. His training as a graphic designer continually shapes what he sees through the lens in order that elements such as light, shape and colour all work in harmony. His never-ending search for off-beat adventures have led him to explore the Himalayas of Nepal, India’s Ladakh, Tibet and South America’s Patagonia regions. He feels right at home paddling his canoe or hiking in his backyard, the country of Canada.

As a photo educator, his goal is for students to come away with not just better photographs, but a better understanding of photography, better compositions and most importantly, a skill set they now have and can use on future adventures.

His young son has accompanied him on numerous trips and has his father’s adventurous spirit.