Travel Tip: If you are traveling to an area without internet on your next photography workshop or expedition, be sure to open any software you plan to use that requires online verification to activate before you go offline. There really is nothing more frustrating than finally arriving at your destination and being unable to open the software you planned to use because it needs to ‘phone home’ for subscription verification. Any of the Adobe subscription plans require online verification and my recommendation is to open the software whilst you are online and then leave it open for the duration of your trip.

My 2024 November expedition to the remote Sea Ice of Gould Bay in Antarctica to photograph the mighty Emperor Penguins is already sold out – thank you. I was last in Gould Bay back in 2018 (Read the Trip Report). This years 2022 sold-out expedition will be my fifth sojourn to Union Glacier and the remote sea ice at Gould Bay. This is a region of Antarctica that is extremely remote and that is home to one of the largest Emperor Penguin colonies in Antarctica.  It is an absolutely incredible and surreal place to visit and photograph these remarkable birds.

The photograph of the month for September 2022 comes from my recent June 2022 workshop to South Africa (Read the Trip Report) and is of three back-lit Impala in rising fog at sunrise. Photographed from one of the private luxury hides at the game reserve, this photograph was simply a case of right place, right time. It was pure serendipity that the Impala were positioned so perfectly in the frame with the sun burning off the morning fog. In many ways this is probably my favourite photograph from this workshop as it is highly evocative of early mornings in Africa at this time of the year.

I will be returning to Zululand in South Africa in May of next year to lead a second workshop to this remarkable area of South Africa. The workshop includes luxury accomodations, access to all of the state of the art private hides, as well as first access to all new ground level photography vehicles. If you have ever been frustrated by the inability to photograph wildlife at ground level in Africa then this is the experience you have been looking for. Further details are available on my website at www.jholko.com or drop me an email for further information.

Just a quick update that I will be offline for the next ten days whilst I guide an expedition to the South East Coast of Greenland. If you are contacting me via email, please be patient and I will get back to you on my return.

I have just published Episode #49 of my Wild Nature Photography Podcast. This podcast episode includes Part Four of an all-new extended series on shooting in cold climates (See Part One,  Part Two, and Part Three). In this fourth part, there is further extensive discussion on dressing for cold weather photography with further emphasis on the face, the eyes, dealing with blowing snow and keeping your front lens element clean as well as fogging issues, and taking your equipment from the cold to a warm environment. It also includes the most often asked question ‘Going to the bathroom in the cold’. This will be the last podcast until I return from the South East coast of Greenland later this month.