Join us for an immersive, hands-on session where we push beyond the familiar and into the wild—both in subject and in spirit. With Tamron’s high-performance lenses as our creative tools, we’ll explore how to choose the right glass, harness the right light, and chase animals in their element for truly epic captures.

What you’ll learn:

• Lens selection for wildlife brilliance: Tamron’s ultra-telephoto and zoom lenses—like the 150-500 mm Di III VC VXD—offer the reach, precision and image quality to isolate wildlife without intrusion. We’ll break down when to go long (for birds in flight or distant mammals) vs. when to dial back and include environment for context.

• Mastering the light: We’ll step through how changing light—from golden hour to harsh midday to backlit rim light—affects texture, form, background separation and mood. You’ll learn how lens choice and settings interplay with available light.

• Behavior, timing & stalking your subject: Wildlife photography is a mix of patience, anticipation and reaction. We’ll cover how to observe animal behavior, compose for action or stillness, and keep your lens ready when the moment appears.

• Compositions that tell a story: Using Tamron’s optical clarity and fast autofocus, you’ll frame shots that go beyond “cute animal” and instead convey wildness, environment, emotion and impact. We’ll explore placement, background separation, and how to use telephoto compression creatively.

• Field-ready workflow and gear strategy: From setting up your lens/camera combo to stabilisation tips (telephoto gear can be heavy, moving shouldn’t always mean tripod) to reading the scene for background clutter and distractions—we’ll get you setup so your kit helps you, not hinders you.

• Ethics and respect in wild spaces: Critical when photographing live animals. We’ll reinforce ‘minimal intrusion, maximum respect’—keeping your distance, working with light, lens and terrain, and honouring the ecosystem and its inhabitants.

Why Tamron?
Tamron’s modern lens lineup offers combinations of reach, stabilisation (VC), fast autofocus (VXD) and image quality that enable wildlife photography to be creative, mobile and high-impact. For example, the 150-500mm f/5-6.7 Di III VC VXD is designed to deliver ultra-telephoto reach in a more manageable form factor—ideal when the wild is calling. By partnering with Tamron, this workshop gives you access to gear and guidance you might not ordinarily have in your back-road, forgotten-place explorations.

Ideal for:

• Photographers who already shoot road-trip back roads, abandoned places, wild corners of the country and now want to bring wildlife into their narrative.

• Educators and mentors looking to expand their gear-fluency and story-telling with animals in natural settings.

• Anyone ready to chase light, chase movement, chase life—bring your curiosity, bring your passion, bring your adventurous lens.

Outcome:
By the end of the session, you’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of how to choose the right lens for the right moment, how to use light as your creative partner, and how to craft wildlife images with narrative strength and visual punch. You’ll also leave with fresh imagery, new techniques to apply on your next road-trip or forgotten-place-plus-wildlife outing, and the confidence to chase the wild side of animals with purpose.