Wildlife photography expeditions · India · Africa · Polar
Five stages. No online checkout at any point.
A real reply from the person who will be in the vehicle with you. We will ask what you shoot, what you own, and what you have not managed to photograph yet.
Six seats means the mix matters. If a departure is wrong for your level or your target species, we will say so and point you at the right one, including a competitor's.
Gear list, a preparation note for the specific park, permit paperwork and insurance confirmation. Sent well ahead, not the week before.
Two drives a day, long sits, and an evening review of the cards. The itinerary bends around the animals and the light rather than the clock.
Send your edit within the month and you get a written response to it. Most people find this is where the week finally pays off.
Every departure below is led by a working photographer, in a vehicle of six or fewer, on ground we return to every season.
Twelve days at 4,000 metres. Long glassing, short light, and one of the hardest animals to photograph well.
The leader carries a camera. That is the whole method.
No fixed itinerary once the animal is found.
Check your email. A copy of everything you sent is on its way, and Tarun reads every enquiry himself.
Tarun Siwach — Founder
A February day at Bandhavgarh. The shape holds; the hours move with the season.
Bodies checked, cards in, lenses out of the bags and onto the beanbags before you leave the room. The gate opens at first light and the queue matters.
The first forty minutes are the coldest and the best. Alarm calls carry further in still air, and the light is doing something you cannot get back at any other hour.
Either you are on an animal or you are not. If you are, you stay: two hours in one position is normal. If you are not, we move to where the tracks were fresh yesterday.
Back before the heat. Cards come off, batteries go on, and the morning gets talked through while it is still fresh enough to argue about.
Not optional on review days. On the others, take the four hours — the evening drive is the one that usually delivers, and tired photographers miss things.
Hard overhead light for the first hour, which is a good hour to work on habitat frames and behaviour rather than portraits.
Everything the day was arranged around. Shutter speeds you were taught to refuse, and the frames most people end up printing.
Selects, near-misses, and the specific reason a frame did not work. Then what to change before 05:10.
Filmed on expedition, not stagedSlots pending footage
Physical demand and light are the two things people underestimate
Drag to compare| Attribute | Bandhavgarh Tiger Masterclass | Ladakh Snow Leopard | South Luangwa Elephant & Light | Bandhavgarh, Monsoon Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target | Bengal tiger | Snow leopard | Elephant, leopard | Bengal tiger |
| Season | Feb — Mar | Feb — Mar | Jun — Aug | May |
| Days | 9 | 12 | 10 | 7 |
| Group | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| Physical demand | 2/5 | 5/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 |
| Photographic difficulty | 3/5 | 5/5 | 3/5 | 4/5 |
| Longest lens you need | 500 — 600mm | 800mm | 400 — 600mm | 500mm |
| Hardest light | Dense shade at dusk | Snow at midday | Backlit dust | Rain and flat cloud |
| Best for | A first serious big-cat trip | Patience and long glass | Working on foot | Returning guests |
| From | USD 9,400 | USD 11,800 | USD 12,200 | USD 8,100 |
| Read more | Details | Details | Details | Details |
There is no syllabus and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What there is: a working photographer in the seat next to you, six people instead of sixteen, and an honest account every evening of why a frame did not hold.
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Open galleryI came back with four frames I would print. On previous trips I came back with four hundred I would not.
The vehicle stopped where the light was, not where the animal was. Nobody had done that with me before.
Six of us, one leader, and an evening review that was genuinely critical. That is what I paid for.
| Dates | Expedition | Destination | Leader | From (USD) | Group | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 — 22 Feb | Bandhavgarh Tiger Masterclass | India | Tarun Siwach | 9,400 | 6 | 3 spaces — Enquire |
| 02 — 13 Mar | Ladakh Snow Leopard | India | Tarun Siwach | 11,800 | 5 | Fully booked — Join waitlist |
| 19 — 27 Mar | Bandhavgarh Tiger Masterclass | India | Tarun Siwach | 9,400 | 6 | 5 spaces — Enquire |
| 08 — 14 May | Bandhavgarh, Monsoon Edge | India | Tarun Siwach | 8,100 | 4 | 2 spaces — Enquire |
| 04 — 14 Jun | South Luangwa Elephant & Light | African Safaris | Tarun Siwach | 12,200 | 6 | 6 spaces — Enquire |
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A wildlife photographer who has spent his working life in Indian forests, most recently as a partner at World of Wild. He leads every WYLD departure himself.
There is no booking engine on this site and there will not be one. Every expedition is confirmed by conversation, because at six guests the fit matters more than the transaction.
