Worldwide Insight Photography Adventures
Creative Photography Workshops, Photography Immersions, and Travel Tours
Experience the world through your unique lens.
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 own work in an immersion style situation where you are making many images every day. In this way, we can catalyze your growth as a photographer.
Do you want to improve your photography technique so that you can more articulately communicate your experiences?
Worldwide Insight Photography Adventures will help you accomplish both of these goals.
The mission of these photography adventures 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 can be a classroom for some of our deepest learnings. We can explore the unknown, and at the same time, use our creativity as the vehicle to understand our experiences and know ourselves in a deeper way.
"Worldwide Insight workshops and tours are designed so that you will grow as both a photographer and a human being."
Upcoming Workshops:
Jan-March 2012
Nepal and India trips- booking now!
Rajasthan, India: Festivals of the Desert - booking now!
*please note, the above links will download the itinerary as a PDF to your computer. Click once, look in your downloads folder, open.
In-Planning:
Oaxaca, Mexico & The Day Of The Dead Festival - Fall 2012
Indonesia
Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, & Vietnam
Southern Italy 2013
Turkey
Hawaii/Maui/Kauai
and Ethiopia 2013
Or customize your own private workshop for yourself, your friends, or your family!
Where have you always wanted to go?
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All photos: © Raku Loren/Worldwide Insight Images
Click the link (above) to contact me with questions or to express interest to sign-up for a trip.
For more information on our learning adventures, please read below:
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" photography teacher to improve your real world shooting skills, 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, Music & Dance -- or your own unique interest!
Worldwide Insight will facilitate you and your family to have a wonderful international travel experience -- while learning to be a better photographers 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 and our ability to communicate our experiences through stunning imagery. We will learn the tips, skills, and secrets to making your images pop through post-production work. This part of image making can be critical to making the most of your images and really helping them shine. This essential component to creatiung great images is usually overlooked or just skimmed over in a cursory way with other photography tours.
Learn to utilize cutting edge computer technology and image editing software to refine, and sharpen your 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 small group.
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?
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 could work for you, request information on workshop schedule availability.
Click here to request availability by email. If you are not being automatically redirected to your email client, copy the following email address into your email application:
tours (at) rakuloren (dot) com
(Don't forget to replace the address pieces with the appropriate symbols.)
Also. i'll need to know the following to give you an estimate:
I suggest 2-4 weeks for photographic studies.
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 in the style of an ascetic pilgrim / "lowest cost at all cost", a 5 is clean and simple -- backpacker style, and a 10 is on the luxurious side (when available). What number best fits you for making this adventure happen?
This information as well as the approximate time and place information will allow me to generate some preliminary package costs 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.
- I will help you design your own adventure.
- I will organize behind-the-scenes details.
- I will provide dynamic hands-on photographic skill and technique teaching.
- We will enjoy evening reviews and lively discussions.
- Your photography will improve, your international travel experience will expand.
- You'll come back with some great stories and some amazing photographs!
If you could go anywhere in the whole world, where would it be?
"Raku is one of the most amazing photographers that I have ever worked with. He also would make a perfect guide for a journey of learning & enlightenment!"
-Hannah
from the band Hannah's Field
(2011)
