Excting Photography Tours Around the World!
The Experience and Core Ingredients of McKay Photography Academy
Photography tours and travel at McKay Photography Academy (MPA), we believe great adventures are made from simple ingredients. Like a perfect photograph, it’s all about getting the mix just right. Photography, Travel, Friendship and Adventure are our core values we want everyone to experience on every photography tour.
We’ve built our photography tours around these four essentials: the thrill of capturing that special image, the excitement of exploring new places, the warmth of sharing stories with fellow photographers, and the rush of stepping outside your comfort zone.
But here’s the thing about MPA trips – they’re not just about taking better pictures. Sure, you’ll learn to work your camera and become a better photographer, but the real magic happens in those unexpected moments. It’s the sunrise shoot that turns into a two-hour conversation with a local artist. The impromptu lesson that leads to a lifelong friendship. The detour that becomes the highlight of your trip.
These aren’t just photography tours. They’re the stories you’ll tell for years to come. The memories that’ll make you smile decades later. The adventures that’ll change how you see the world – through your lens and beyond.
Ready to create something extraordinary? Pack your camera and join us. The adventure’s just beginning.
Highly recommend every aspect of this wonderful company!
The MPA experience is first and foremost about photography. The idea to be around like-minded photographic enthusiast, learn new skills and enhance the knowledge you already have is at the core of all MPA photography tours. David and Ally McKay are personally a part of each tour along with their team of highly skilled professionals. Each instructor is a working professional and yet has the ability to teach at all levels with patience and encouragement making sure no one is intimidated. With MPA, all levels of photographers are encouraged and welcome! Whether you are a new beginning photographer or have years of experience, you will have access to some of the most talented image makers in the world today working on creating images of your tour with an industry exclusive 5 client to 1 instructor ratio. In this way, you are assured to have amazing instruction in a small intimate manner as you travel throughout the tour.
Learning to photograph and capture images in some of the most incredible travel destinations in the world is another core ingredient to any MPA photographic tour. Taking place domestically and internationally, MPA photography tours are built to give you not only an incredible photographic opportunity, but an incredible travel opportunity. Photographing your travel experience is such an awesome way to see and learn culture and other lands. Although every MPA tour is based around photography at its core, travel should be much more than just photography based. MPA tours are set to allow you awesome times of shooting and learning, but also times to relax, take in the culture, enjoy good food and wine and the experience of the location you are visiting. After all, your “experience” should feed your photography. In order to feel something about what you are photographing, experiencing it and taking it in is a key component. We truly believe that you must experience travel and all it has to offer in order to photograph it to the fullest. In order to do this, we will not be photographing from sunrise to sunset every day, all day. Each day will have various opportunities we feel are photographically best, and you will have the flexibility to go along or stay and relax as you feel the need. There will also be scheduled “free times” and days to just sit, relax and enjoy the local area we may be in.
Imagine enjoying your travels and photographing with a group of people all interested in the same thing! No more hearing from your travel mates “can you hurry up please and take your picture” as you are hoping to capture that special image you are setting up. Joining an MPA photographic tour will allow you the opportunity to meet others interested in photography and travel and to create lasting friendships to last a lifetime. Many people from all walks of life including couples, singles, and younger to older generations enjoy MPA photography tours. You are sure to meet people on this journey and make new friendships forged by the camaraderie of such an experience. MPA has seen MANY people return again and again to our tours and come back with a friend they have met on a previous tour. With this, never feel you will be alone. From the moment you arrive, you will be in good company, with good people and great friendships to be made!
Life should be full of adventure! Let’s face it, sometimes people spend their entire life talking about all their plans and what they will do but never do it. The challenge, to actually get up, make a plan and go for it! Adventure comes in all forms. MPA works hard to give you experiences in photography but filled with adventure on each and every tour. It may mean an opportunity to visit locations very few ever see such as remote islands in Greece. Maybe it’s to go on an African Wildlife Safari and watch baby cheetahs being protected by their mother or to see the grandeur of Yosemite for the first time. Life truly is but a glimpse of time. Be sure to live it and have an adventure!
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If you want to learn photography, this is the place. If you want to combine travel with your photography, look no further! We LOVE to teach and take groups all around the world for incredible photographic tours. No matter what your skill level, we work with you “hands on” for the best instruction and photography travel tours available today!
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