Worldwide Photo Travel Adventures | Led by Raku Loren, the award winning photography teacher.

Worldwide Insight: Creative Photography Workshops & Travel Tours
Bringing you and the world a little closer together.

There are many ways to learn photography and the art of making stunning images. One of the best ways is to learn one-on-one with your work, your questions, and your interests with someone who is supportive, enthusiastic, and experienced. I offer personal and group photographic mentoring so that you can improve your technique while seeing the world.

Do you want to improve your photography technique so that you can more articulately communicate your experiences?
Worldwide Insight will help you accomplish both of these goals! I am an experienced teacher with adults, teens, and children.

Worldwide Insight's mission is to cultivate your creative potential for self-expression while utilizing the world's diverse cultures and geographies as a passport into the art of image making. The world is a classroom for all of us. We can explore the unknown and at the same time, use our creativity as the vehicle to know ourselves in a deeper way.

When we learn to be in the world as it is, without opinion, just a wonder and appreciation for the mystery of the divine in this moment, we can begin to resonate with our own truths -- and these can be expressed through our photography.

Raku Loren will teach you how to find this aliveness in the moment and to effectively communicate this in stunning photographs. Yes, you can learn to consistently make beautiful and engaging images. Core to Raku Loren's techniques are awareness sharpening skills. Whatever your experience, these skills will pay off in more authentic image making.

Here's what make these tours special:
Not only is Raku Loren is an experienced documentary photographer and world traveler but he is a passionate and effective teacher with a post graduate degree in education and many years of experience as an educator in a variety of teaching environments and age levels. From teenagers to adults, Raku Loren can provide a catalyst for seeing, experiencing, and communicating the deeper realities of exploration.

If you're looking for the "right" guide for you or your young budding photographer to see some of the world and to do it in a deeper and more meaningful way, Raku Loren and Worldwide Insight Photography Workshops can help. Raku's qualifications and his visions, which result in these beautiful images, will assist you on your path to a more meaningful travel experience.

Raku personally customizes each client's tour to fit the needs of their goals and objectives. Raku will help you articulate what you are most passionate about and then we will work to explore that passion through the medium of photographic story telling.

Photographic workshops can be geared around the following themes: History & Architecture, Religion & Spirituality, Geography & Exploration, People and the Urban Experience, People and the Rural Experience, or Music & Dance.

Worldwide Insight will facilitate you and your family to have a wonderful international travel experience -- while learning to be a better photographer.The world will be our classroom!

After a day of shooting, we will have a photo salon where we can edit, view, and learn from our images to sharpen our skills. We will utilize cutting edge computer technology and professional image editing software to refine, and sharpen our ability to see more effective photographs with each day of practice. Workshops normally last between 7-30 days. They can be for an individual, a family, or a group of friends.

Worldwide Insight workshops and tours are designed so that you will grow as both a photographer and a human being.

Finally, training or support in your meditation or yoga practice can be included into the weave of your creative journey. These practices fully support the creative techniques that are taught and practiced.

This is the moment to make that commitment to yourself to follow your dreams. Hiking the Himalayas? Mongolia by horse? Some of the 13,000 islands of the Indonesian archipelago? Temples in the jungle of Cambodia? Mangrove forests, sacred rivers, colorful festivals, mysterious but incredibly delicious foods? What are you waiting for?

Where have you always wanted to go?

Above: After crossing the Indian Himalayas, one enters the stunning beauty of an area known as "Little Tibet", populated mostly by Tibetan Buddhists. In these last weeks before winter, everyone is busy harvesting wheat and barley before the cold comes. This woman is using a long wooden fork to let the breeze blow the chaff away while the grains fall below and can be collected.

Left: During the Tibetan Buddhist New Year pilgrimage known as Lhosar in Nepal, people from all over the region come to make prayers at the most important Buddhist monument outside of Tibet.

Below: Time stops for a few moments as a young monk looks out the window of his monastery. Ladakh, India.

How to proceed?

After you have decided on the country or the part of the world that is calling you, the time you will have for the trip and approximately when that will be, request information on schedule availability. Click here to request availability by email. (If you are not being automatically redirected to your email client, copy this email address into your email application: tours (at) rakuloren (dot) com and paste into your email application. Don't forget to replace the address pieces with the appropriate symbols.)

I'll need to know the following to give you an estimate:

What are the themes of your main interests?
What is the level of comfort/luxury that is important to you during your travels?*
*If you would like, use this 1-10 scale: 1 would be a dematerializing ascetic, a 5 is clean and simple, and a 10 is ultra luxurious. What number would you like for your adventure?
This information as well as the approximate time and place information will allow me to generate some preliminary packages for you.

Above: My favorite of the old royal forts in India's desert region called Rajasthan. A temple in the foreground glows in the morning sun's first rays.

Left: The Ganges river in India is sacred to more than 800 million Hindus. From all over the country, people of all ages make long pilgrimages to places along this river, particularly here in Varanasi, a place known as the city of light, to connect with the river and their own faith.

Below: Imagine walking through narrow cobblestone streets in an old desert kingdom that exists today! In the old part of town, many of the homes are still painted blue, noting the residence of the Hindu caste of Brahmins.