The Serengeti of the Southern Ocean, Through Your Lens
A small-group program for avid photographers, led by professional photographer and educator Zim Pham
20 days · Falklands, South Georgia & Antarctica · Departs January 9, 2027
Want to learn more?
Join Zim in our upcoming webinar on August 27, 12 p.m. EDT!
A Rare Photographic Opportunity, with Unparalleled Guidance
Join photographer and educator Zim Pham and a small group of fellow enthusiasts for twenty days across the Falklands, South Georgia, and Antarctica. You’ll shoot every day with a professional next to you, review your work each evening, and discover the far fringes of the Southern Ocean.
About Zim’s Program
Three strands running the length of the voyage, building on each other as you move from the Falklands to South Georgia and on to the ice.
1. Dedicated Outings
Time in the field with a professional shooting alongside you, not lecturing from the rail.
2. In-Depth Lectures
Sea days put to work — technique, theory, and the thinking behind strong images.
3. One-to-One Reviews
Your own images looked at properly, with honest feedback in a constructive group.
What We’ll Cover
Zim tailors the program to the group, but here’s the ground we expect to cover across twenty days.
The Basics
- The exposure triangle
- Metering
- White balance vs colour bias
- File formats
- Memory cards
Gear in the Cold
- Cold weather impact
- Cleaning and protecting gear
- Lens choices
- Polarizers and filters
- Swapping lenses in the field
- Preparing to shoot
- Custom settings
- Spotting small objects at distance
Focus
- Understanding autofocus
- Back button focus
- Focus tracking
- Wide vs spot focus
- Manual focus: uses and limits
- Diagnosing blurry images
Shooting Action
- Choosing the right shutter speed
- Panning techniques
- Creating selective blurring
- Reading animal movement patterns
- Pre-shooting and burst technique
Composition
- Beyond the “rule of thirds”
- Angle
- Weight
- Repetition through compression
- Understanding color and contrast
- The truth about storytelling
Long exposure and landscape
- Calculating exposure in low light
- Calculating shutter speeds
- Neutral density filters and polarizers
- DSLR vs mirrorless
- Live view and metering
- Light leaks and DSLRs
- Tripod use
- Remote shutter release
Editing and workflow
- Lightroom organization and editing
- Folder structure
- Importing images
- Culling images
- Tagging
- Metadata
- Destructive vs non-destructive editing
- Recommended workflow order
Backing up
- Backing up in the field
- Backing up at home
Meet Your Instructor: Zim Pham
Zim Pham is a seasoned professional photographer and educator with over three decades of industry experience. Since 1990, her work has been featured by premier global brands and publications, including Volkswagen of America, The Times of London, Neiman Marcus, and Arizona Highways Magazine. With a career spanning 65+ countries across all seven continents, Zim has developed a specialized expertise in working under challenging conditions.
Her extensive experience in remote and logistically complex environments has fostered a unique brand of creative problem-solving and technical resilience, ensuring world-class results regardless of the environment. Beyond her commercial work, Zim is a dedicated educator who has taught photography at the collegiate level, mentoring both career-track and continuing education students.
Zim’s professional and educational approach is rooted in technical competence and compositional excellence. She is committed to helping others see the world with greater clarity through the lens, combining rigorous technical standards with an adventurous, determined spirit.
Twenty days. Three of the wildest destinations on Earth.
Discover the Falklands, South Georgia, and Antarctica in a single voyage, and come home with better images and with the skills that made them, for good.
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