Tour details
Basic information
Group size
Max 5
Duration
6 days
Price
€3295 / €300 deposit
Fitness Level
Low to Medium
Our base
Hotel Mercure Saumur & Hotel Mercure Blois
Join me for a fabulous Loire Valley photography tour and workshop in central France. The photo tour is centred in the very heart of the Loire Valley where our base is in the cities of Saumur and Blois. We will use our bases to photograph both the Loire Valley west of Tours as well as around Blois. I have been living in the area for over 10 years and know it better than many of the local people.
Max 5
6 days
€3295 / €300 deposit
Low to Medium
Hotel Mercure Saumur & Hotel Mercure Blois
The Loire Valley is one of the world’s largest UNESCO World Heritage sites, and there are some 150 or so beautiful castles within it. Some of these are private and lesser-known, but others, such as the Château de Chambord or Château Villandry, can be visited.
The Loire Valley photography tour will take you to some of the most beautiful Châteaux de la Loire, including Château de Chambord with its stunning architecture and also Château de Chenonceau.
Dotted around the Loire Valley are some stunning examples of architecture. We’ll endeavour to visit some of these beautiful monuments with their Gothic and Romanesque styles.
One such highlight is the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud. A stunning example of Gothic and Romanesque architecture. If you have tilt-shift lenses, I’ll show you how to get the best out of this remarkable building.
I love photographing beautiful buildings such as Abbaye de Fontevraud, and I’ll be showing how I approach them during the Loire Valley photography tour.
Known as the Garden of France for its abundance of market gardens, orchards and vineyards, the Loire Valley photography tour will see us capture some of these stunning areas of the Val de Loire.
In springtime, we may find fields filled with colza, linseed and maybe even some late-blooming poppies.
My personal favourite area to photograph the rolling landscape of the Loire Valley is south of Saumur. Here, the landscape is more undulating compared to the eastern side of the Val de Loire.
Having lived in the Loire Valley for over 13 years, I learned that the area east of Tours is more about the architecture, whereas journey west and you’ll have access not only to beautiful architecture, but the landscape becomes more undulating along with more opportunities to photograph the famous vineyards such as those around Saumur.
I have some lesser-known spots to guide you to so that you can get the best out of these places on the Loire Valley photography tour.
My Loire Valley photography tour is split between two different areas along the River Loire. It’s done this way to give us the best opportunities for the different areas.
I’ve chosen to base the tour first in the city of Saumur, where our accommodation looks across the Loire River to the Château de Saumur and secondly in the city of Blois, which gives us easy access to the Château de Chambord as well as other places too.
