French Alps Photography Tour
3 Days among the Misty Mountains
This Tour in a Nutshell
- Available seats: 1 or 2
- Subjects: Telephoto mountains surrounded in ethereal atmospheres.
- Duration: 3 days.
- Dates: October 24th - 26th 2025.
- Tour Leader: Daniel Laan
- Price: 3200 EURO per person (Private rooms), 4499 total if you bring a friend/partner and share a room.
- Deposit: 1000 EURO.
- Starts: Geneva/Chamonix, October 24th, no later than 12.00 (12 AM).
- Ends: Geneva/Chamonix, October 26th, no earlier than 16.00 (4 PM).
- Includes: Professional landscape photographer guide and all private tuition. Post-processing sessions, transportation between locations. Accommodation in a private room in a nice hotel. Breakfast included. One of the following excursions: Mer de Glace Ice Cave, Pointe Helbronner per cable car, Aiguille du Midi by cable car.
- Excludes: Transportation to and from Geneva/Chamonix 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. Other excursions, but optional extra.
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Ghostly Mountains Photography Private Tour in the French Alps October 2025
There’s a quality about mountain landscape photography that is indescribable. Probably because I can put so much of my own emotion in those images. On this tour, we’ll either start from Geneva or Chamonix, right on the Swiss border. We’ll photograph the Mont Blanc massif, the pointy Aiguille du Midi and surrounding peaks, we’ll have the Mer de Glace glacier and a host of cool spots that we can photograph.
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 mountain landscape 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:
It gets cold.
There are long hikes to and from workshop locations at considerable altitude.
We’ll do post-processing in the evening.
We get up before sunrise.
We’ll do a lot of long (200mm+) telephoto work from a tripod.
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 telephoto shots. Some of those can be composed from a road or carpark. More exotic shots can be had in the valleys, where we could be hiking for a few hours. We’ll always return to the same hotel. A visit to Mer de Glace can be very slippery (it’s a man-made ice cave) 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 - Weather dictates the atmosphere
It’s not without reason this tour is held in October. With the changing temperatures, cloud inversions, fog and rain make regular appearances. But it can mean that we have sunny conditions during our stay. I will contact you with the forecast a few days in advance to dress and prepare for the occasion.
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 the Alps, 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.