Dartmoor Photography Tour
3 Days in Fangorn
This Tour in a Nutshell
- Available seats: 1 or 2
- Subjects: Ancient trees, waterfalls, creeks, forests.
- Duration: 5 days.
- Dates: September 19th - 23rd 2025.
- Tour Leader: Daniel Laan
- Price: 3599 EURO per person (Private rooms), 4699 total if you bring a friend/partner and share a room.
- Deposit: 1000 EURO.
- Starts: Tavistock, September 19th, no later than 12.00 (12 AM).
- Ends: Tavistock, September 23rd, no earlier than 16.00 (4 PM).
- Includes: Professional landscape photographer guide and all private tuition. Post-processing sessions, transportation between locations and airport shuttle service if required. Accommodation in a private room in an Inn. Breakfast included.
- Excludes: Transportation to and from the workshop area and associated costs. Private insurances, taxes, duty and visa fees. Meals other than breakfast not included, nor any personal items including (alcoholic) beverages, snacks, souvenirs and travel insurance.
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Contact me and I’ll forward my bank details to finalize your booking. Get a 4% discount on the price. (Fees can still be applicable).
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Dartmoor & Wistman’s Wood Woodland Photography Private Tour 2025
For 2025, I want to do something truly special. Photographing Dartmoor and those ancient woodlands gave me a type of energy that you get maybe once or twice in your life. On this private 5 day workshop, I’m returning to the mystical, otherworldly atmosphere. And I’m taking you with me.
Who is this workshop for?
Everybody can travel here by themselves. The value of this workshop is in training you to see, compose, expose and post-process your images as I do.
This is not a beginner’s tour where camera settings haunt your dreams. I expect you know your way around your own camera and are at least familiar with Photoshop as a tool in post-processing.
This woodland workshop is intended if you struggle with finding your creative voice and notice that you might be doing the same things as everybody else on Instagram. This tour is no holiday:
We might be taking pictures in the rain.
There are long hikes to and from workshop locations.
We’ll do post-processing in the evening.
We get up before sunrise.
We’ll do a lot of focus stacking.
All right, now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s introduce you to a few images I have in mind for this tour:
Why Choose this Tour?
No Trophy Shots
I’ll teach you the way of letting go of plans and expectations. The way I work is wing it, being in the moment and stretching what it means to be a photographer.
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Chance of Rain, Fog or Clear Skies
The weather has never stopped me pursue the images I’m after. Expect the worst to get the best.
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You Dictate the Tour
More of this, less of that? You got it. I’m just here to teach you whatever I know.
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Itinerary
Nope, we’re not doing that on this tour. We will leave the analytical, time-oriented mind and embrace creativity and spontaneity. In the meantime, we’re going to have a blast working the landscape. It’s about seeing not planning. The only time schedule you’ll get from me on this tour is when to get up.
Payment & Reservation
This tour is going to be popular. That’s why a deposit signifies your commitment in advance of this tour. We kindly ask that that you transfer the amount through an online service like Wise to ensure no additional fees are incurred. However, I do offer PayPal and creditcard, but I have to charge an additional 4% services fee.
Options to book are at the top of the page.
Cancellation and refunds
Unfortunate things can happen to anyone. Therefore we handle a refund policy when you have made reservations for this tour but can’t make it in the end due to whatever the circumstance. Based on the full fee of the tour, we strictly handle this schedule to cover the costs made on our end. If you decide to cancel on your end for any reason, this policy will apply:
Cancel 120 days before the start of the tour or more: Full refund minus € 200 service charge.
100 days or more: 75% refund
80 days or more: 50% refund
Less than 60 days: No refund
Physical requirements
Most of our destinations are about an hour of walking from the car park. There are hard to see trails, tall wet grass, mud and slippery stones. I strongly advise you to be in good physical condition and comfortable not being comfortable.
Please do not come on this trip when you have a heart condition, suffer from epilepsy or severe asthma or when you have unsure footing or a bad leg. This will hinder our ability to show you everything we have in store.
Disclaimer - Precious Ancient Forests
Some of the locations are treasured natural sites. It is forbidden to tread into some woodlands like Wistman’s Wood on this tour. I will not carry responsibility if you do. National Park Rangers can issue a fine, because every footstep on moss, lichen or tree root makes a difference. There are plenty of great compositions right at the edge of all of the woodlands we will be visiting. Some locations are less restrictive and offer Dartmoor’s Public Rights of Way.
Daniel Laan ~ The Netherlands
Moody, ominous landscape photography is as much my passion as it is my career. For more than a decade now, I've had the mindset of developing a specific dark and moody style of photography that shows a part of myself through my images. I have a deep appreciation for the landscape, the weather and find something of beauty in trivial subjects. The Dutch forests are my main subject in front of the lens. And often, those aren’t the first subject any photographer would think of at first glance.
With a degree in design and visual communication and over 15 years of experience in Photoshop, it's my goal to train you to look at the landscape differently. While explaining everything from pre-visualizing to exporting for the web or for print, we uncover a truth. That the stunning landscape of Dartmoor, isn't there to take home with you. The most important aspect is not to bag the best locations, but to appreciate your surroundings; to become aware of things that others walk straight by.
It is with this mindset that I will make you a better artist; and that is something you can take home with you.