Bungle Bungles 7 Day Photographic adventure - May 27th.
Tour Details
- About this tour
- Your Guides
- When does the tour take place?
- Who should come?
- How much does it cost?
- More detailed information
- How do I book?
1. About this tour
- This is a dedicated photographic tour for people who love photographing amazing places.
- 6 nights and 7 days of pure Bungle Bungle adventure.
- Small group of only 10 participants.
- Three full time dedicated professional Photographers to help you get the best results.
- Many practical workshops from Adam, Greg and Nigel.
- The right places at the right times for the most beautiful light.
- Camping out under the stars each night in Purnululu National Park.
- Comfortable rugged 4WD bus, fully air-conditioned and off-road equipped.
- Great food, all prepared and cooked for you.
- Evening reviews of the days locations, slide shows of your work (we have a projector with us) with tips and advice.
- Scenic helicopter flight around The Bungles.
Purnululu National Park
The Bungle Bungles, one of the The Kimberley's most spectacular places. Another world of ancient
beehive shaped domes, gorges, towering chasms and hidden creeks. Have you always wanted
to see the Bungles? Do you love adventures? Do you love taking spectacular landscape images?
Imagine 7 days camping and photographing in the Bungles with a small group of like-minded
people and three acclaimed professional landscape photographers on the odyssey of a lifetime.
A dedicated photographic journey, getting you to the best
places at the best times for beautiful landscape images of some
of the most magical places on earth.
Sleeping under a million stars each night, swimming in pristine
waterholes and rivers, learning from some of the best in the
industry, taking images that blow your mind, and gaining
precious photographic skills that would normally take you years
to accumulate, in this full week of photograhic immersion.
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2. Your Guides
- NIGEL GAUNT
www.reddirtphoto.com.au
- This award winning photographer has been conducting photographic tours in the
Kimberley for the past four years with over thirty years experience as a photographer.
Nigel specialises in helping to explore the rugged Kimberley landscape photographically and capture the wild light that the area is famous for. You will learn professional camera techniques and image composition.
“When we photograph a landscape, we want to capture not only the detail of the scene, but more intimately, its mood and soul”.
You will see the world through new eyes!
- ADAM MONK
http://www.adammonk.com/
- With a combined love of the native Australian bush and photography spanning over 25 years, Adam Monk is firmly established as one of Australia’s most inspired landscape photographers. Adam’s gallery located at 62 High Street, Fremantle Western Australia , showcases his collection of stunning panoramic images that capture the majesty of the Australian landscape.
“I don’t create the scenes I photograph, I simply record them. My job is to be able to see the infinite of nature and translate it to the finite of a photograph, whilst still transmitting the splendour of the original. To create a window out of a fragment that contains the essence of the whole.”
- GREG HOCKING
http://www.greghocking.com/
- Greg Hocking lives with his wife and three daughters in Perth, Western Australia and photographs in Australia as well as overseas locations. Greg is a Master of Photography and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography, and was awarded the AIPP Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year in 1997 and 1999 as well as the WA Landscape photographer of the Year for 1996 and 1998. In recognition of his Fine Art Photography Greg has won the Western Australian Professional Photography Curators Award on three occasions 2002, 2003 and 2004.
In 2005 Greg was recognized by Hasselblad Sweden as the first-ever Australian to be honoured as an International Hasselblad Master. Outside of his landscape work, Greg runs a commercial photography business servicing Architects and Corporations. Greg has been involved in photography tours to overseas and Australian locations as well having lectured in photography at both TAFE and University.
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3. Tour dates
Departs: Tuesday, May 24 2011 leaving from Kununurra. Arrive back in Kununurra May 30th 2011
4. Who Should Come?
- People with a love of adventure, nature and photography.
- This is a camping trip, there will be no hotel accommodation in the wilderness, no TV and no
mobile reception.
- There will be: clean fresh air, fresh cooked food, beautiful scenery, awesome photo opps,
stars, silence, vast open space, learning, laughter and life-changing
experiences.
- This tour will require a medium level of walking fitness.
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5. How much does it cost?
$3,990 per person. This includes all land transport, meals for the duration, tuition and helicopter flight over the Bungles.
Price does not include: Flights to/from Broome or Kununurra, accommodation in town or Alcohol (welcome to bring your own).
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6. More detailed information
7 days camping and photographing in the Bungles with
Adam Monk, Greg Hocking & Nigel Gaunt, for a dedicated
Photographic adventure tour and master-class workshop
combined. There is a maximum number of 10 people, with
3 Photogrphers to share, there will be plenty of personal
interaction.
Adam, Greg and Nigel will be running practical photography
workshops along the way to help you grow your skills, both with
the camera and in the computer work and post processing
afterwards.
The Bungles have many spectacular outlooks as well as
beautiful small details and we will make sure you are at the
right locations for the beautiful light that is the key to all
great images.
Practicalities
We will be travelling with three fully equipped 4WD vehicles,
one extended landcruiser troop carrier with forward
facing comfy seats and air conditioning, and 2 additional
landcruisers as support vehicles with kitchen and gear
trailer. We have solar panels, generators and inverters to
power laptops and recharge camera batteries. We have
fridges and freezers for fresh food and the essential Gin &
Tonics after an invigorating day of inspired wows. We also
have a support crew who will be travelling with us to help set
up camp and prepare the meals, so you can focus on the
experience.
We will visit Piccaninny Creek with its textured river bed that
has been gouged by water for thousands of years. The
majestic and awesome Cathedral gorge with towering walls
an excellent opportunity to shoot with HDR. Echidna Chasm
and Mini Palms. As you go deeper into this gorge you end
up touching both walls with your hands, as the walls tower
above you. Here the sunlight penetrates for only about 1
hour a day. A chopper flight over the Bungles will let you
really appreciate the amazing prehistoric landscape that
unfolds below. There will Be Sunrise and Sunset shooting to
capture the Mood of Purnululu.
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7. How to book
Call Nigel on (0418) 917078 or use our contact form.
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