Private photography journeys, made for one party at a time.
We no longer run scheduled workshops. Everything we do now is built around you — your dates, your pace, your pictures.
Plan a tour →A small Icelandic team, fifteen years on the same roads.
Passionate about photography, Iceland En Route focuses on the diverse landscape and changeable weather and light conditions.
We also feel passionate about the multifaceted nature of our small, beautiful island and the amazing platform it offers for poetic displays. With enthusiastic photographers, our mission is to provide top quality service and guide you to enticing photogenic locations under dramatic seasonal light conditions.
We aim to preserve the value of our land and protect the vulnerable and barren nature of our precious island as we introduce you to its wondrous and sometimes concealed gems. We are eager for you to experience the best of our country and enjoy all of its gifts as well as to meet up with locals and get a little feel for the Icelandic lifestyle.
Iceland En Route specialises in landscape and travel photography, and is committed to assisting you in expressing your unique encounter through a new lens of exceptional alchemical perception of this part of our world.
Fewer trips. Entirely yours.
A private tour is not a fixed itinerary with your name on it. We read the forecast the night before and drive towards the light. Nobody else is in the car.
Your itinerary, written for your dates
Custom routes built around the season, your fitness, how early you're willing to wake, and which pictures you want to come home with.
One party, one guide
Couples, families, two friends, or a photographer travelling alone. No strangers sharing your tripod space and no waiting for a group to move on.
Instruction as much or as little as you like
Field technique, composition, long exposure, aurora, drone work and editing — one to one, at whatever level you arrive with.
Local access, quietly arranged
Landowners, farmers, superjeep and boat operators, guides in the highlands. Fifteen years of relationships that open gates and get you there first.
Lodging and transport handled
Comfortable hotels and country houses chosen for their position at first and last light, and private vehicles suited to the road and the weather.
Scouting for photographers going alone
If you'd rather drive yourself, we'll plan the route, the timings and the coordinates, and stay reachable while you're out there.
Almost every one of these has been run before. Any of them can be built again, privately.
These are the regions and seasons we know well enough to promise something from — Mongolia is the one we are opening now. Use them as a starting point rather than a menu — most private tours end up as a version of one of them.
Aurora, ice caves and the winter south coast
Six to nine days between October and March. Glacier lagoons, blue ice, black sand and long nights spent waiting for the sky to open.
View the journey → Iceland · Summer
Midnight sun, bird cliffs and the long green coast
Six to ten days of endless light. Westfjords, puffin colonies in June and July, and waterfalls at full glacial melt.
View the journey → Iceland · HighlandsThe uninhabitable interior, by super jeep
Landmannalaugar, Kerlingarfjöll and the glacial river deltas from above. Only reachable a few months a year.
View the journey → Iceland · Day toursOne day out, from Reykjavík
Nine day tours we have run many times — northern lights, south coast, Golden Circle, Snæfellsnes. Private only.
View the journey → Norway
Lofoten and the northern coast
Seven to ten days. Peaks straight out of the sea, fishing villages, and aurora over the water in late winter.
View the journey → Mongolia
Steppe, ger camps and the eagle hunters
New for the coming seasons. Ten to fourteen days, the Altai in autumn, Kazakh eagle hunters, and country without edges.
View the journey → Bolivia
Altiplano, salt flats and high desert
Salar de Uyuni, coloured lagoons and geyser fields, mostly above 3,500 metres. Nights under very clear skies.
View the journey → Vietnam
Mountain passes, markets and the north
The Hà Giang loop, hill markets and terraces, with time built in to photograph people properly.
View the journey → Myanmar
Monasteries, plains and river life
Bagan in early mist, dawn in the monasteries, and Inle Lake. The trip that produced most of our portrait work.
View the journey →What the light does here
Made on tour, in the conditions you'd be standing in. Full portfolio and moving image available on request.
Guests, repeatedly
In five and a half days we travelled through the entire country, seeing locations I would not have found on my own, in lighting conditions I would not have predicted.
Although the weather was not the best, Oli maximized the photographic opportunities — something I could not have done on my own, or with a less expert guide.
He did his very best to accommodate every request. Because of him, I got more outstanding photos from our four days there than we ever would have obtained on our own.
Four steps, and no obligation until the third.
Every tour is quoted individually. The figure depends on the season, the length, the vehicle, the lodging and how many of you are travelling — so we'd rather give you a real number than a misleading one.
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You write to us
Dates, rough length, who's coming, and what you hope to photograph. Two lines is enough to start.
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We talk it through
A few emails. We'll tell you honestly what your season can and cannot deliver.
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A written proposal and quote
Day by day route, lodging, transport and inclusions, with one revision round as standard. A deposit confirms the dates.
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We drive towards the light
The plan flexes daily around forecast and conditions. That flexibility is the whole point of going private.
Tell us when, and what you want to see.
We take a small number of private tours each year and answer every enquiry personally, usually within two days.
enroute@enroute.is