Day 1: We will depart the UK for overnight flights to Windhoek, Namibia.

Day 2: Arriving in Windhoek during the morning, we will collect our vehicles for the long drive north to Etosha National Park and our base for the first 3 nights. The lodge is conveniently based inside the park itself. We will have been travelling a long time up until our arrival, so this will be an opportunity to rest and acclimatise in the comfortable surroundings. We’ll be briefed on the Etosha leg of our schedule with the local guides and drivers and get a good night’s rest.

Days 3-4: Using a specially adapted VW transporter’s for the duration of our time in Etosha, these unique vehicles (along with driver guide) have rotating seats that allow everyone their own station to photograph using tripod heads through large open windows. This vehicle can accommodate 4 guests each, with the remaining 2 guests shooting from our main vehicles, driven by Richard and Dan. This ensures everyone will get plenty of opportunity to work in these unique vehicles. For each of these 2 days we will explore the eastern part of the park around Namutoni, entering at dawn and visiting the best waterholes to look for photographic opportunities. We'll head back once the light is harsh for a rest and lunch. Etosha is home to all the main herbivores such as elephant, zebra, wildebeest and oryx. With a little luck we'll also find lion, leopard and cheetah. We are visiting during the heart of the dry season when all of these animals will look to come and drink at the waterholes each day.

Day 5: A similar morning schedule except we make our way that afternoon to the west of the park, basing ourselves here for our final night, at the Okaukuejo rest camp. The main attraction here is the floodlight watering hole that provides potential to see black rhino, which visit most nights.

Day 6: For the final morning in Etosha, we’ll spend time at the camp waterhole which often provides stunning sunrise light and offers reflections of the visiting animals. After our morning session here we’ll head west to Damaraland and our base for the next 3 nights near the settlement of Sesfontein.

Day 7-8: Save for a few waterholes, the river valleys of this area will be dry at this time of year. The valleys however, are home to the desert-adapted elephant, giraffe and a small population of lion. We will leave early each morning in our private safari vehicles with driver guides, to search the river valleys for these specially adapted mammals. This also offers an opportunity to try and see these often photographed animals in more unique and different settings.

Day 9: Following breakfast we make our way to the Skeleton Coast region, visiting the largest breeding fur seal colony on route. Here the sights and sounds are nothing short of extraordinary and will provide an enjoyable photography session, ahead of the second half of the journey to the coastal town of Swakopmund.

Day 10: A private tour during the morning into the sand dunes of the surrounding Namib Desert, with a local guide and expert in the so-called Little 5, which includes namaqua chameleon, Peringuey’s adder and palmato gecko. The aim will be to see these animals up-close with macro and wide-angle lenses. The afternoon will see us spending time at the lagoons in the nearby Walvis Bay. This will take us right up to sunset and will feature huge numbers of both greater and lesser flamingos, where they gather, providing flight, portrait and group photographic options.

Day 11: We’ll return to Walvis Bay early in the morning before heading south within the Namib region, to the internationally renowned Sossusvlei area. Here we will enjoy the afternoon exploring the iconic red sand dunes before settling at our hotel in Sossusvlei National Park. This will be our base for 2 nights.

Day 12: An early start at dawn to visit the iconic Dead Vlei and Sossusvlei. The photos from here will already be familiar to you as they are unique locations for photographic opportunity. Paradise for landscape photographers in fact. From a wildlife perspective, oryx are reasonably common in the area so there will hopefully be wildlife to add to the landscape opportunities. We will have breakfast here before heading back for lunch, then out again in the afternoon.

Day 13: Dependant on final flight times and schedules, we hope to have a final early morning session in the park before heading back to Windhoek and our evening flights back home.

Day 14: Arrive back in UK/Europe in the morning, after our overnight flights.