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A few days ago I received an absolutely wonderful endorsement and testimonial from regular traveller and photographer, Vicki Santello, who I have had the good fortune to travel with on quite a few workshops and expeditions with now (including Antarctica). The endorsement came on the back of the recent PetaPixel article and interview. I just wanted to share this as its not often someone takes time out of their day to write something positive about anything these days and I very much appreciate the kind words and sentiment – thank you Vicki.

I have just published episode 120 of my Wild Nature Photography Podcast. In this episode, I discuss the latest article by Peta Pixel on my Polar photography, and wrap up the snow mobile expedition I just finished up here in Svalbard for Arctic Fox and Reindeer. The conversation also includes the destruction of the 200-800mm lens, also featured on Canon rumours and Peta-Pixel in the last few days.

Petapixel has posted a lengthy Feature Spotlight on my Polar wildlife Photography.

Our Wild Nature Photo Travel 2025 November expedition to photograph Emperor Penguins on the frozen sea ice at Gould Bay in Antarctica is now close to sold out with just two places remaining. (Read the 2024 Trip Report). If you have ever wanted to photograph the world’s largest and most elegant, photogenic penguin, this is the expedition for you. This is an expedition where we live on the sea ice with the penguins for an extended period of time and have literally days of opportunities to photograph these incredible penguins. Please contact me for more details or to reserve your place. Full details are available on our website at www.jholko.com/workshops.

The photograph of the month for April 2025 comes from my recent back-to-back workshops for Arctic fox in the far north west of Iceland in Winter this year (Read the Trip Reports). This white-morph fox was wonderfully co-operative for our group, posing on the clean snow for us for quite some minutes before disappearing over the mountains. What particularly appeals to me about this photograph is the soft blowing snow around the feet of the fox, the curled tail and of course the moment of mid yawn.