Landscape, Nature & Wildlife Photography Workshops

with Bryan Maltais

Welcome to WildernessShots; nature, wildlife and landscape photography workshops with Bryan Maltais in beautiful photo locations around the American West and Colorado. My goal is to provide fun, productive landscape & nature photography workshops at awe-inspiring photography locations around the Rocky Mountains. I share my 25 years of professional experience to provide you with master-class instruction whether you’re an advanced or a novice photographer. Workshops include Colorado Fall Colors in the San Juan Mountains, Crested Butte, Bisti Badlands, Astrophotography, Macro photo workshops, wildlife photography in Bosque del Apache and Rocky Mountain National Park. I also offer private photography workshops for instruction on camera settings, landscape, wildlife, macro and night sky photography techniques. You can order my Colorado landscape photography prints from Crested Butte, Telluride, and Rocky Mountain National Park, and from around the world.

Bisti Badlands Sunstar hoodoo photo print

Bisti Badlands Cracked Eggs aurora Borealis

Upcoming Photography Workshops:

Bisti Badlands Photography Workshop

Astrophotography and Golden Hour, Sept 23-26, 2025

Colorado Fall Colors Photo Workshop

San Juan Mountains, Oct 2-5, 2025

Infinite Horizons-The Complete Guide to Nature & Landscape Photography

Available on Amazon as Hardcover, Paperback and eBook

Join professional nature photographer Bryan Maltais on an exhilarating journey into the world of landscape, macro, wildlife, and astro photography. This all-encompassing book is your ultimate guide, starting with basic exposure settings and progressing to advanced techniques. Discover how to transform a regular lens into an ultra-high magnification macro lens, capture razor-sharp images of birds in flight, create dazzling star trails with long exposures, turn roaring waterfalls into silky masterpieces, merge multiple frames into gigantic panoramas, and much more. Alongside captivating stories from the field, you’ll gain essential composition knowledge and powerful editing skills in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. Discover what critical features to look for in digital photography gear to buy once and buy right. Designed to fast-track you from beginner to ace, this guide provides clear, engaging content without the complexity of a physics textbook. With innovative techniques and insights drawn from Bryan’s 25+ years of experience shooting and teaching, even seasoned photographers will uncover new ways to capture extraordinary images.Order on Amazon

Custom Private Nature Photography Workshops

In the custom private workshop I provide one-on-one (or with a group of friends) deep photography learning in the field setting of your choice. This is photography personal training. I can guide in many locations around the world. I can also accompany you virtually anywhere-I’ll plan the itinerary and we’ll discover together. I teach all nature photography techniques including landscapes, macro, wildlife/telephoto, milky way/star trails/night sky, wildflowers, motion blur in water and clouds, time-lapse video, cinematic video production and more. Half-day workshops available in NoCo for $650. Full day workshop for $1000 plus travel expenses required for destinations. There is a minimum 2-day workshop commitment for non Northern Colorado locations, and 5-day commitment for international locations. Discounts available for multiple people…gather your photographer friends for your own, unique photo workshop experience.Learn More

Nature Documentary

This award-winning nature documentary explores a mystical European forest to meet animals like Badger, Red Deer, Wild Boar, and especially the Reptiles & Amphibians. Bryan Maltais journeys for 90 consecutive days into this forest from winter to summer to chronicle nature’s most secretive events. Auf Deutsch.

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