A Photographic Workshop of a Lifetime

Dust off your camera lens and recharge the batteries. This 11-night adventure through the most remote islands and coastal communities of Papua New Guinea provides one of the world's most fantastic photographic opportunities.

Board the Orion on April 3, 2011, in Cairns, Australia and spend 11-nights with guest lecturers Nick Rains and Peter Eastway. Nick and Peter will host a pre-expedition photography workshop on board and disembark on location with the Orion expedition team. From dawn until dusk you will have the opportunity to visually capture the culture and characters of your surroundings in addition to seascapes and wide vistas, covering all aspects of photography from capture to print. This will truly be an epic photo shoot.

11-Night Itinerary
Day 1: Cairns, Australia (embark)
Day 2: Day at sea
Day 3: Alotau, Milne Bay
Day 4: Samarai & Kwato Islands
Day 5: Fergusson Island
Day 6: Tufi Harbour
Day 7: Tami Islands
Day 8: Madang
Day 9: Sepik Reiver, Watam Village
Day 10: Day at sea
Day 11: Rabaul, Papua New Guinea (disembark)
Day 12: Option charter flight from Rabaul to Cairns

Stateroom cabins start at $7,645 per person, based on double occupancy.

Guest Lecture Profiles
Peter Eastway wrote Lonely Planet's international photography guide book on landscape photography. His accolades list Grand Master of Photography; AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year; Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year 1995, 1996 and 1998; Australian Illustrative Photographer of the Year 2004; and NSW Professional Photographer of the Year 1995, 1996 and 2004.

Nick Rains has been a professional photographer for the past 28 years and his work has been published all around the world in books, magazines and calendars. Nick authored six books including "Australia -- A Photographer's Eye." He is editor of Better Digital Camera magazine, a Master of Photography, and was Australian Geographic's Photographer of the year in 2002.