This fall, escape the cold for nine warm, action-packed days in exotic Thailand. With a professional photographer by your side, you’ll explore the glittering Buddhist temples, Royal Palace grounds, and bustling street markets of Chiang Mai.

While you’re there, you’ll also get to tour the fruit market, filled with a myriad of fruits you may never have seen… and sample local Thai dishes – think coconut curries and pad Thai when we visit a local farm and spend the afternoon cooking up some of these favorites.

And you’ll visit an elephant sanctuary, local temples, and photograph the famous Yi Peng flying lantern festival.

Yi Peng is celebrated throughout Thailand with the release of thousands of paper lanterns into the air for good luck. We’ll be on the ground in Lampoon when the big release happens. Plus, we’ll spot flying paper lanterns each and every day in Chiang Mai, as it’s often celebrated throughout the week in preparation for the festival.

Watching thousands of lanterns float into the night sky during Yi Peng is a truly unforgettable experience. Something you MUST add to your bucket list. 

And adding to that beauty are fireworks displays, floating lanterns released on the water ways, bedazzled local homes, temples adorned with blossoms, dancers in traditional costume, and more.

You’ll be sure to walk away with some breathtaking photos and a new appreciation for this beautiful country and culture.

Where incense mingles with jasmine… where saffron-robed monks release rice paper lanterns into the sky… where candy-colored mirrors glitter atop ornate palace rooftops… where fresh Pad Thai sizzles in open-air woks… where markets buzz, chatter, and clang with the city pulse while tuk-tuk taxis whiz by…

Chiang Mai is the perfect place to host this photo expedition and learn about the wonders and excitement of travel photography. Each step leads to another captivating photo opportunity.

When you join us in Thailand, you and your fellow travel photographers will begin by experiencing and photographing the best parts of the city as you make your way through street markets… neighborhood canals… and feel the cool marble on your toes as you pad along, barefoot, through the majestic, gold-trimmed temples.

You’ll also explore the jungle on the neck of an elephant… bargain with locals in the night market… watch as artisans paint, carve, weave, and hone their crafts… and learn insider tips on authentic Thai cooking… from Pad Thai, to green curry, coconut rice, and more.

Of course, you'll do it all in the jolly company of a professional photographer too, whose eye-opening daily photo reviews will help you hone your craft, take better pictures and ultimately sell them to newspapers, magazines and online.

You’ll walk away with amazing photos and great memories of your travels. And you’ll pick up a ton of new camera skills with all this hands-on practice, and learn how to sell your photos when you get home, too.

Attendees of these live workshops boast great successes selling their photos in magazines, galleries, online, and more… and you needn't have a lick of experience to join their ranks. With a professional by your side you’ll gain a real insider’s perspective – a view of the city unlike any tourist could.

Presentations and tours include night photography, shooting midday, street shooting, how to sell your work and more. We’ll try our hand at fun stuff too—like shooting star trails, creating starbursts, and capturing motion.

What’s more, every workshop participant will have access to pre-recorded videos when you return home that show the ins and outs of Adobe Lightroom – so even your less-than-perfect shots can be sold for a byline and a check.

Whether you have little experience and modest equipment or you’re already a talented amateur photographer, you’ll benefit from this program. It will teach you the tricks the pros use to take photos editors buy…and teach you, too, how to turn your snapshots into profits again and again.

This will be a trip you’ll remember forever. You’ll not only come away with amazing photographs of Thailand and the know-how to sell them when you return home, but you’ll also gain a new appreciation for Thai food and culture. You’ll learn how to travel like a photographer working “on assignment,” and you’ll gain all the skills you need to create images good enough for publication in magazines or to be sold as fine art. You’ll have these skills for the rest of your life.