Tomorrow, I am leaving Sweden for the last European workshop of the year, the White Horses of the Camargue in France. This sold-out workshop has been something I have been looking forward to for a very long time now. Actually, ever since I saw images of the horses more than a decade ago in an early tutorial Canon published on how to use their Digital Photo Professional software. I was never enamoured with Canon’s DDP software, but the images of the charging horses stuck in my mind, and I am excited to have my own opportunity to photograph these beautiful horses very soon, alongside all the participants on this trip. To be clear, there are not wild horses we are going to photograph. These are domestic, trained horses, and this is an opportunity to practice, hone and perfect techniques that can be applied to wildlife.
I am somewhat saddened that Canon was unable to supply me with the 100-300mm f/2.8L RF IS lens in time for this workshop (before I left Australia in August), as I feel this would have been the ideal glass for the occasion (fast and the perfect focal range). As such, I am packing both the 70-200mm f2.8L IS and the 400mm f2.8L IS. The 100-300mm is now waiting for me at Canon in Australia and will be joining my arsenal of lenses for next year’s workshops. I am particularly keen to put this lens to use on my Arctic Fox workshops in northern Iceland early in the year.
After I finish in France, I will head back to Sweden for a few days before wrapping up my European stay for the year and returning to Australia for the summer. The last workshop of the year will be to Antarctica for the Emperor Penguins in November before we kick off the 2026 year! I will write more about what is coming up in 2026 in a separate post later this year.
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