Location: Cabarceno Wildlife Park, Spain
Duration: 3 nights / 4 days
Group Size: Max 14
Level of fitness required: Easy
Join Tatra Photography for a weekend in Spain to capture some of the World’s most spectacular wildlife. Cabarceno is Europe’s largest wildlife park and host to over 100 species from five continents. Over the four days you’ll have the opportunity to capture images of a range of African species including Lions, Cheetah, Rhino, Hyena, Zebra and Hippopotamus. With an inclusive package, which includes flight, transfers and accommodation, we’ve come up with a unique workshop that will ensure you capture once-in-a-lifetime images of some of the World’s most endangered and enigmatic species.
The spacious wildlife ranges and large aviaries found in the wildlife enclosure of Cabarceno wildlife park provide us with a stunning environment. The European species population includes Brown Bears, Wolves, Lynx & Bison with photographic opportunities with the jungle species of Tiger, Gorilla & Jaguar. We will also have an opportunity to photograph deer, wild boars, and river otters. The selection of birds includes eagle owls, Ural owls and grouse.
Over the course of three days in the field, we will enjoy numerous opportunities to capture spectacular images of the World’s top predators and endangered wildlife. And, with the help of our wildlife professional photographer, we’ll ensure you return home with images you’ll be proud of. All In all, four days of truly spectacular wildlife photography adventure.
Tutorial Presentations
The learning experience of a Tatra Photography workshop is not confined to guidance and tuition you will receive in the field, as each evening a tutorial is presented to help develop your camera and wildlife photography skills. The tutorials cover a variety of topics, for example, to enhance your camera skills they provide in-depth explanations of key camera functions, such as understanding TTL metering, achieving accurate exposures, configuring autofocus settings for wildlife photography, plus showing you how to use of depth-of-field and shutter speed creatively. To broaden your craft of wildlife photography the tutorials will help you to expand your vision of a subject, by teaching you how to appreciate the qualities of light, and guide you in the art of composition. The workshop tutors will also provide constructive feedback on your pictures during the course of the workshop, to compliment their input from the tutorials.
Your tutors for this workshop are Simon Stafford & Andrew Parkinson. Simon first became interested in photography while a university student. Completely self-taught, his photographic career began when he talked his way into a job as the photographer for his university’s weekly newspaper and has been shooting pictures ever since. His photographs have been used widely in newspapers, books, calendars, and magazines, including Nikon Pro, Professional Photographer, Practical Photography, Digital SLR Photography and Photography Monthly, plus he is Technical Editor to Nikon Owner magazine.
Simon has built up a wealth of experience over the past thirty years in both film and digital photography. Throughout his photographic career he has used the Nikon system extensively, adopting digital photography at an early stage with the release of the Nikon D1 camera during 1999; he has being using digital cameras exclusively since 2004. He completed his first book, The Nikon Compendium, during 2003. With nearly 400 pages and Simon’s own extensive photography of Nikon cameras, Nikkor lenses, and Nikon system accessories, it represents a comprehensive history of the Nikon system for the user and collector alike. He has also written over twenty books on the Nikon camera system for the Magic Lantern Guide series, published by Sterling Publishing. Currently he is involved in a wide variety of photographic projects, which include presenting photographic workshops, teaching on-line photography courses, and working with wildlife research and conservation organisations in South Africa.
Andy is a feature contributor to National Geographic magazine and is a multi-award winning wildlife photographer. His images have been awarded twice in Wildlife Photographer of the Year, twice in the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year and 15 of his images have been awarded in the British Wildlife Photography Awards including 2 category wins. He was also named the 2012 Nature Photojournalist of the Year with a portfolio of gannet images taken on assignment for National Geographic.
Accommodation
Our accommodation is a renovated historical building hotel located 10 minutes from the wildlife park. The Solares is a four star hotel with spacious and modern rooms, each guest will have a large double room en suite with no single supplement. The hotel has a stunning spa where you can enjoy a soothing massage or visit the well-equipped fitness centre. The hotel has free wifi and an excellent restaurant serving local and international cuisine from their al a carte menu.
All monies paid by you for the air holiday package shown are ATOL protected by the Civil Aviation Authority. Our ATOL number is ATOL 6404. For more information see our booking terms and conditions.
