Spend a day with me
Maui whale-season field days, December 2026 – April 2027: the encounters, the experience, and coaching to bring the photographs home.
Experiences in commercial application
Learn in the field
Time in the field with Emily, and help bringing the photographs home.
For photographers, and anyone on Maui for whale season, who want to come home with photographs they're proud of.
Field days, private lessons, photography lessons and photography expeditions.
Ways to learn with Emily
What Emily teaches
Composition, light, field craft, behavior anticipation, working in extreme conditions.
Private lessons
One-to-one time on your camera, your eye and your edit.
Photography lessons
Learn composition, light, field craft and behaviour anticipation.
Photography expeditions
Journeys built around the photograph, with instruction and image review from Emily in the field.
- The Hours of the Hunt (Maasai Mara)
- Into Shadow (Botswana or South Africa, then Kenya)
- Celebrate the Aloha that Whale Season Brings (Maui)
- The Whole Ride (doors-off helicopter, Peʻahi, Maui)
- Open Water (Mobula rays, La Ventana)
Stay Close to the Work
The Wild Within Newsletter
Emily's work keeps growing - speaking engagements, new volumes, active field projects, and new expeditions opening each season. The mailing list is where all of it lands first.
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The Wildlife Photography Guide
Join, and she'll send the Wildlife Photography Guide: forty pages on light, focus, composition, and the presence that comes before all of it.