To coincide with his new book, Footprint Travel Photography, Steve Davey has launched a new range of travel photography tours. These include Impressions of Morocco and Impressions of India, with land arrangements provided by Intrepid Travel in both cases. Impressions of Morocco starts 21 September 2009, and runs for 13 days. Participants will visit cities like Fes, Casablanca and Marrakech, go trekking in the High Atlas Mountains, explore ruins, gorges, kasbahs and holy sites as well as spend a night in the Sahara Desert. The tour price is from GBP1195 plus a local payment of 300 Euros. Impressions of India takes you to the Taj Mahal, the cities of Kolkata and Varanasi, the pilgrimage site of Bodh Gaya and includes spending three days at the Sonepur Mela festival in Bihar. The tour runs for 16 days from 26 October 2009 and costs from GBP1395 plus 18,000 rupee local payment.

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Photo Tours with Steve Davey

To coincide with his new book Footprint Travel Photography, Steve Davey has launched an exclusive new range of travel photography tours, with all land arrangements provided by Intrepid Travel.

Impressions of Morocco starts 21 September 2009, and runs for 13 days. We will visit the evocative cities of Fes, Casablanca and Marrakech, trek in the High Atlas Mountains around the remote village of Armed, explore ruins, gorges, kasbahs and holy sites as well as spending a night under the stars in the Sahara Desert. The tour price is from GBP1195 plus a local payment of 300 Euros.

Impressions of India visits the stunning Taj Mahal, and the holy city of Varanasi before spending three days at the Sonepur Mela festival in Bihar. The largest livestock fair in Asia this is noted for the Haathi Bazaar, or second-hand elephant market. We will also visit the Buddhist pilgrimage sit of Bodh Gaya with it’s strong Tibetan influence and the bustling city of Kolkata. The tour runs for 16 days from 26 October 2009 and costs from GBP1395 plus 18,000 rupee local payment.

These tours are a unique opportunity to combine extensive teaching by Steve Davey, an experienced professional travel photographer, with a holiday in some of the most atmospheric and photogenic places in the world. As well as covering technical subjects like exposure, composition and shooting RAW, Steve will cover tips for approaching people to shoot their portrait, travelling with a camera and tackling different situations and picture opportunities that you encounter on the road. Steve believes that travel photography can actually add to the enjoyment of travel, prompting you to see more sunrises, climb more mountains and talk to more people than if you were travelling without a camera, and runs these tours as a celebration the amazing countries that you will be travelling in.

These tours have been endorsed by Nikon UK. A spokesperson says: “Nikon highly recommends the photography tours led by renowned travel photographer and author, Steve Davey. With his years of experience and expertise Steve is able to inspire keen travellers and photographers to experiment and persevere with photography. So while you’re soaking up the foreign climates and local cultures, Steve will also encourage you to think how best to photograph them.”

Steve Davey is a professional writer and photographer, and is the author of Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die, and Unforgettable Islands to Escape to Before You Die, both published by BBC Books and translated into some 30 language editions. Steve’s latest book is Footprint Travel Photography, a major new title covering just about everything that you could want to know about the subject. Sponsored by Nikon and Intrepid Travel, it is published by Footprint Handbooks, cover price £19.99. Anyone coming on the tour will receive a free signed copy of the book as the course manual!

Intrepid Travel have twenty years of running small group adventures and you will benefit from their experience and also from their industry protection.

For more information about Footprint Travel Photography, or this exclusive range of tours go to www.bettertravelphotography.com/phototours

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