The short time in Australia has already come to an end. Early this evening, just before dinner, I am heading back to the airport and making the big puddle jump to Sweden (via Doha and Helsinki), where I will have a couple of weeks before heading to Iceland and Greenland for my Greenland East Coast Hidden Gems Expedition and the after-party—the Iceland South West Coast landscape extension. I am excited to head North to Scandinavia and then onto the Arctic for Greenland and Iceland. The East coast of Greenland is, without a doubt, my favourite place on earth to photograph icebergs. The stunning shapes, the sheer enormity of their size, grandeur, and whimsical transient nature make them the ideal subject for photographers looking to capture and create dramatic other-worldly landscapes. This will be my first workshop with the all-new Canon EOS R5 MK2 and my first opportunity to photograph with this camera in the high-Arctic. I am very excited to see how the EOS R5MK2 performs and how its all-new BSI sensor renders texture in snow and ice. I recall being disappointed by the original EOS 5DR DSLR (Pre-mirrorless) and its inability to render texture in extreme highlight detail (it did an awful job on snow and ice) – I subsequently sold that camera on return from an Antarctica expedition. The EOS R5MK2 is the first camera I have owned with more than 24 mega-pixels since that EOS 5DR DSLR, and curiosity about how it performs in the extreme highlights of snow and ice has me chomping at the bit to photograph my first iceberg with this new camera.
Time constraints here in Australia have meant I have not made a full packing list for these two workshops, but there should be no surprises about what equipment I am taking with me. In brief, the Canon EOS R3 and Canon EOS R5MK2 will be my two bodies for these trips. Lenses will include an RF 14-35mm F4, RF 24-105mm F4, RF 70-200mm F2.8L IS, RF 100-500mm F5.6-7.1 and my RF 600mm F4L IS with an RF 1.4 Teleconverter. Of course, the 600mm lens comes along for any Polar Bear or other wildlife encounters.
Our next Wild Nature Photo Travel expedition to Greenland in late Autumn will be from October 3rd to 10th, 2026. We will take just six photographers on this expedition (some places have already been taken and filled). Full details on this workshop are now available on our website HERE. We received a wonderful note just a few days ago from a prior traveller who joined us last year – thank you so much.
“Hi Josh, Thanks so much for everything! Photographing icebergs in Greenland with you was a journey into a realm of sublime beauty and raw nature. Now that I am back home and I looked back on my images I can say that the experience was utterly surreal, capturing the majestic interplay of light and shadow on the ancient ice, each berg a unique, ever-changing sculpture. I learned to appreciate not just the grandeur of these frozen giants but also the delicate details—the textures, the hues of blue, and the reflections that transform with the shifting Arctic light. The experience was both a technical challenge for me and an artistic endeavour, offering a deep connection to one of the planet’s most remote and pristine environments. Your guidance made this trip a life experience I will never forget.”
Lastly, if you are ordering our new Canon EOS R5MK2 Noise Reduction Presets over the next couple of days, please be a little patient, as I will be travelling, and offline for approximately twenty-four hours.
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