Photo Safari Hawaii provides private photo ecotours all over the Hawaiian Islands. We create a custom experience for each client to provide a safe nature experience and photography adventure in awe-inspiring spots around Hawaii.

Our professional guides are experts in their knowledge of the islands. They will offer fine art photography exercises at beautiful scenic locations to enhance your photography and provide the ultimate nature experience.

The journey is the destination

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  • Kauai Photo Ecotours

    Kauai is a beautiful island to photograph. We offer tours of the beautiful beaches on the South Shore, the dramatic ...
  • Oahu Photo Ecotours

    Come join us off the beaten path, even on busy Oahu, Hawaii’s most urban island. 15 minutes outside of Waikiki ...
  • Big Island Photo Ecotours

    Hawaii is the youngest of the Hawaiian islands, the first island settled by Polynesians & the emergence of Hawaiian culture ...
  • Molokai Photo Ecotours

    Experience Molokai…Photo Safari Hawaii offers a unique opportunity to explore a more provincial Hawaiian island….beautiful Coasts with traditional Hawaiian fish ...
  • Lanai Photo Ecotours

    Lanai offers beautiful remote beaches, canyons, and unspoiled terrain. Our full day Island Explorer photo ecotour is a great way ...
  • Maui Photo Ecotours

    Experience Maui’s lush rainforest on the Road to Hana with our Full day Island Explorer photo ecotour. We’ll circumnavigate ...

Blog

  • Underwater Photography Workshops in Hawaii

    Posted September 2nd, 2011 by brian with No Comments

    The ocean is a dynamic medium that supports billions of organisms, from bacteria to blue whales. Its ever-changing design has attracted man since the beginning of time and continues to inspire artists of all kinds. With recent advances in technology, including sophisticated waterproof housings and strobe lights, we are able to capture the complex and variable system that thrives beneath the ocean’s surface. • Light Underwater The first thing to consider when entering ...

  • Limahuli Gardens is a Verdant Gem on Kauai’s Northshore

    Posted March 16th, 2011 by brian with No Comments

    Hono O Napali forms the uppermost ridgeline of Limahuli Valley Limahuli Gardens, a National Tropical Botanical Garden, offers a rare glimpse into an authentic Hawaiian cultural site and inspires an awareness of the natural wealth and abundance of traditional Hawaiian society in a lush tropical setting amidst beautiful rare plants and flowers. Ahupua'a is the traditional Hawaiian system of land management An Ahupua’a was the traditional Hawaiian division of land which ...

  • Pi’ilanihale Heiau

    Posted March 16th, 2011 by brian with No Comments

    Along the magnificent Hana Coast, tropical rainforest yields to black lava rock formations which meet the sea on the Eastern shore of Maui, Hawaii. A clossal ancient Hawaiian Heiau, a sacred spot and place of worship in Hawaiian, emerges through the forest. The Pi’ilanihale Heiau, meaning house of Pi’ilani, is the largest remaining ancient structure in Hawaii. Built over the course of 200 years, these massive lava terraces rise up to ...

  • Zen Moments Available

    Posted March 16th, 2011 by brian with No Comments

    Let nature be your office for the day.

Testimonials

  • The time flew by as my guides taught me all about the fundamentals of composing not just a picture – but an truly remarkable shot of one of nature’s most beautiful islands.
    What was amazing about the approach of Photo Safari Hawai’i is the private tour and the one-on-one tutorials of fine photography.

    I have been shooting on SLR’s for a decade, and I have to say I learned more in one afternoon than I had in so many years of trial and error.
    They teach you how to capture that breath-taking element that separates great photos from the mundane.

    I cannot recommend this experience highly enough! A trip to *any* of the Hawaiian islands is not complete without taking advantage of this unique opportunity to have your techniques refined and enhanced.
    Hands down, I cannot wait to return to Hawaii and shoot another safari on Maui, Molokai, and Kona!

    Thank you, Mr. Ross and all the islands’ resident photographers on your Photo Safari Hawai’i team!
    Months later, I am still brimming with inspiration!

    Erica Jess Pittsburgh, PA

  • Ross Regards nature as the soul of the islands–a treasure that should be revered and nurtured. He hopes that as participants connect with it through photography, they will want to preserve and protect it.
     

    Cheryl Tsutsumi, Honolulu Star Advertiser

  • Hot Shot!
    A live Volcano ignites creativity at a photo workshop in Hawaii. I’m on Hawaii’s Big Island–Where the Kiluaea Volcano continues to create some of the planet’s newest landmass–learning fine art photography with Photo Safari Hawaii owner Brian Ross, whose work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, & Miami. While regular safaris chase animals, our 13 hour, 492 kilometer expedition chases light. And with rainforests, deserts, and sometimes snow–the youngest island in the Hawaii archipelago has some of the world’s most diverse weather–we have plenty of beautifully lit subjects to choose from.

     

    Zach Everson, Air Canada’s En Route Magazine

  • Hawaii offers such a wealth of activities that even the most creative travel agents sometimes have a hard time suggesting what to do first. For them, I offer this suggestion: Right off the bat, send your clients on a tour with Photo Safari Hawaii!

    The brain child of Brian Ross, Photo Safari Hawaii takes clients on off-the-beaten-path excursions to some of Hawaii’s most scenic spots around the islands and helps them capture the beauty of the 50th state in photographs. If visitors go on one of these outings at the beginning of their vacation, they can practice what they learned throughout their trip and create more meaningful and artistic photographic memories.
     

    Marty Wentzel, Travel Age West Magazine Editor

  • Mountain***** Photo Safari Hawaii provides private photo ecotours on each of the Hawaiian Islands. They create a custom experience for each client to provide a safe nature experience and photography adventure in awe-inspiring spots around the islands. Their professional guides are experts in their knowledge of the islands and offer fine art photography exercises at beautiful scenic locations to enhance your photography and provide the ultimate nature experience. I went out with them on Kauai and had a great experience. In retrospect, those two hours taught me more than I had learned on my own in over fifteen years of digital photography.

     

    John Fischer, About.com

  • Red FlowerOne of the most wonderful adventures of my trip!

    Rich Rubin, Passport Magazine