Burma Photo Tour with Art Wolfe

Completely unexpected and completely incredible!

My wonderful wife surprised me by sending me on a photo tour to Burma (Myanmar) led by Art Wolfe in February of next year.

I have avidly followed Art Wolfe’s work for a long time.  Enjoying his photographs of cultures, landscapes and wildlife from around the world well before I had charted a course towards photography.  Since the passion of this art has taken hold, now I love to study his images and am always inspired by his vision.   It is no exaggeration to say he is the photographer who I am most inspired by and whose images I enjoy above all else.

In October, Art Wolfe was the keynote speaker kicking off the Digital Photo Expo held in Calgary, Alberta.  Art’s presentation, Between Heaven and Earth, was a  collection of images, stories and events detailing his journeys to the Himalaya regions of Nepal, China, Bhutan and India.  I found the enthusiasm that Art brought to the evening and the emotion captured in the images of the cultures and the landscapes to be very impressive.  At the conclusion of the show, Art invited any of the attendees to join him on his upcoming photo tours to India, Vietnam and Burma.  Little did I know that I would be taking him up on the offer!

That night I came home charged up from the show and Bobbi apparently filed that away and started plotting.  She shared her plans with my father initially and then with both of our sets of parents.  In short order all were enthusiastically behind the endeavour.  Now that they have shared the surprise with me, I am vigorously planning, drawing up lists, studying up on Burma and analyzing my photography to identify gaps that I want to fill in prior to this amazing trip.  The link to the trip itinerary http://artwolfeworkshops.com/myanmar_tour.php