2024/11/25 - 2024/11/29
From USD $3 050,00 price per sharing person
Bring together Like - minded people
to enjoy nature and
learn more about improving their photography.
This workshop is designed to get photographers into the best areas to ‘get the shots’. Here is where you take your wildlife photography from ‘good’ to ‘great’. By learning the tips, techniques and methods of taking great wildlife images with professional photographers, you will gain great insight and knowledge while improving your wildlife photography.
There is a fantastic sunken photographic hide on the reserve, giving the wildlife the opportunity to seek you out. This hide has produced several award winning images. It is perfectly positioned to utilise the light, and because of the low perspective, the backgrounds are incredible. When the elephants aren’t around many species of mammals and birds use the waterhole, so there is usually something exciting to photograph.
SADC residents can contact us for SADC rates
This webpage offers you a glimpse of the safari. For the full details of the entire safari indicating what is included and excluded, number of guests and the logistics, please download the full brochure below.
ITINERARY
This safari will consist of an itinerary as such:
Day 1 - Midday Arrival
You will arrive at Mashatu at midday. Your professional photographers and hosts will open proceedings with a short talk on what we can expect over weekend.
Drive 1 is about enjoying and relaxing. This drive is used to take photos ‘as you are used to’, so that it sets the benchmark to measure the images taken at the end of the weekend against. Before dinner, the photo guide will give a short presentation showing a variety of images and how, by using specific aspects, you can alter and change an image dramatically.
Day 2 - 5
Over the next 4 nights you will be staying at Mashatu Tent camp, on a private game reserve tucked away in the most eastern corner of Botswana. Straddling the Shashe, Motloutse and Limpopo Rivers, which serve as natural boundaries with Zimbabwe and South Africa, the Northern Tuli Game Reserve (NTGR) comprises 71,000 hectares of remarkably diverse habitat, including Mophane bush land, riverine woodland, and marshland, punctuated by towering sandstone cliffs, basalt formations and unusually shaped kopjes – making for truly breath taking scenery.
Day 5 - Final Day
After your final game drive and brunch, you will be transferred back to your vehicle.
This is the unfortunately the end of your safari!
* Transport to and from the Pont Drift border post. A return road/flight transfer from Johannesburg can be arranged.
who'sGUIDING YOU?
25 November 2024 - 29 November 2024
Joe Misika
Joe Misika is a gifted photographer from Kasane, Botswana. After completing his bachelor's degree in business systems in South Africa, he gained work experience with various companies such as the Mail & Guardian and The Citizen. Despite his success in the corporate world, Joe's true passion lies in photography, and he decided to return to Botswana in 2016 to pursue it.
As a co-founder of Chobe Collective, Joe has been instrumental in mentoring local photographers and creating a platform for photographers to collaborate and share ideas. He also helped establish BWsFinest, an event that brings together the top wildlife photographers in Botswana.
Joe's exceptional work as a photographer has earned him numerous accolades, including the Botswana Wildlife Photographer of the Year award in 2020. His talent as a photographer has also led him to work as an expedition photographer in the Okavango Delta.
Joe is currently based at Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana where shares his experience and expertise with our clients either at the C4 Photo Mashatu photographic hide or accompanying them on our C4 Photo Mashatu photographic vehicle.
25 November 2024 - 29 November 2024
Darren Shaun Donovan
He started his career as a safari guide in South Africa’s Sabi Sands, where he specialised in birding and animal behaviour. After witnessing the most amazing sightings on his game drives with guests, he quickly realised that he was missing a camera. His photographic journey began with him being drawn to the unusual and artistic depiction of wildlife through photography. He believes in capturing the mood and emotion of a moment in time, and that keeps fuelling his passion. He constantly pushes the boundaries of what he knows and experiments with the unknown!
