Banff National Park photo tour, wear red so you will show up well.

Escape from the routine and indulge your passion for photography in a "The Hole Picture" photo tour and discover the spirit of place and the magic of light of our destinations. Refine your personal style, hone your technical skills by treating yourself to an experience where you are welcomed by others who are just as passionate about chasing light as yourself.

The Hole Picture Photo Safaris tours offers exciting adventures led by Greater Yellowstone wildlife and landscape photographer, Daryl L. Hunter who polished his skills chasing grizzlies and mountain light in the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park.

Travel workshops are equal part vacation and education, whether conducted in the mountains of the Greater Yellowstone or the valleys of Zion of Yosemite, or even Africa, a great learning adventure will be had.

Because of the telephoto lens it looks as though Eric is illegally close to the mountain goat.  Glacier Park photo tour.

Half-day day and full day private tour/workshop adventures are offered year around in Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone, These are recommend as a jump start for your extended Grand Teton and Yellowstone shooting vacation. A day with Daryl at the front end of your trip will make the rest of your trip much more productive. Yellowstone's abundant and diverse wildlife are as famous as its geysers. After the reintroduction of the wolf, all of the wildlife species that inhabited the park when it was first explored over 100 years ago survive today qualifying Yellowstone as the only intact ecosystem in the lower 48 states..

The tours includes a conversation about composition; post processing with Lightroom, and Photoshop. Photo adventures are designed for the photographer who seeks beautiful locations for great landscapes and or wildlife and how to achieve best results while doing so.

Most shooting is reasonably close to the roadways, but on destination tours away from "The Hole Picture Safari's" base around Yellowstone, you should be fit enough to do at least a 3-mile round trip hike with a certain amount of elevation gain expected on many of the tours. Any private tour can be catered to your needs.

Photo workshop in Japan

Photo tour cancellation policy - full refund if at least 30 days advance notice is given for day tours, destinatin tour cancelation policy will be posted with the tour.. If the workshop has less than 3 sign ups, The Hole Picture Photo Tours reserves the right to cancel the workshop 30 days in advance with a full refund given.

The Hole Picture Photo Safaris will provide you with the quality education you desire and an experience you will remember until you are stuck on the rocking chair on your porch

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Photographer/archive - Images by Daryl Hunter

Moose in the Tetons

It is a rare day when you can capture a perfect reflection of the Grand Tetons in the Snake River with the bonus of a moose or two. As a photography guide as well as a landscape photographer, I have been to this spot hundreds of times and this day made me very happy!

A Venice Evening

Photographing Venice Italy is amazing at any time of day but it positively glows shortly after sunset. Photographers call the time after sunset before it gets totally dark the “blue hour.” It is a great time to take photos, especially cityscapes, as the intermingling of natural and artificial light creates dramatic effects and the world is imbued with blue. The juxtaposition of warm and cold light can be quite pleasing.

Photography ~ The Nature Of Light

By Daryl L. Hunter

Most photographers create random acts of beauty; enlightened nature photographers deliver consistent encapsulations of light and time. Galen Rowell once said: “The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.” Galen did so because of his mastery of light.From the inception of photography, it has been about capturing light.

Age and pursuit?

I am at that awkward stage of aging where I sometimes forget about it, usually while in pursuit of an elusive photo with a rapid expiration date. It wasn’t until I was forty-three when I took on the task of fatherhood. Another task I added concurrently was to not appear to be the old guy to my young son Scott. I went too much pain to appear to be fifteen years younger, activity wise, than the weary carcass beneath the weary smile.