Children's Photography Workshops
Amur Leopards - Akovi and Esra
Colchester Zoological Society
Big Cat & Nature Photography has offered photography workshops for children for some years now and we will continue to offer photography workshops for children at the Colchester Zoological Socity and with seals in Norfolk in 2026.
At the Colchester Zoological Society, there are two separate photography workshops for younger children (aged 6-9 years) and teenagers (aged 10-15 years). Furthermore, there is our Seal Photography workshop for Children (aged 10-16 years) in Norfolk during the grey seal pupping or respectively the moulting season (aged 12-16 years) .
All three children photography workshops provide one-to-one support for participants (for the children and their guardians) throughout the event plus the option to have an individual online photography session prior to the photography workshop.
The maximum number of child participants is limited on the Wildlife Photography for Teenagersworkshop to a maximum of 3 teenagers, while the maximum of child participants on the Zoo Photography for Junior Explorers workshops at the Colchester Zoological Society and the Seal Photography for Children workshop in Norfolk are limited to a maximum of 2 children (plus one guardian each).
Zoo Photography for Junior Explorers
at the Colchester Zoological Society
Malayan Sun Bear - Srey Ya
at the Colchester Zoological Society
Malayan Sun Bear - Srey Ya
The Zoo Photography for Junior Explorers workshop (for our youngest customers, aged 6-9 years) is about learning how to approach photographing animals by moving towards them without being noticed, by observing the animals and assessing possible photo opportunities plus by looking from what angle a better detail level of the animals and composition of the images can be achieved.
The duration of this photography workshop is 3-hours and we will usually stay in an area with some of the most popular animals like for example the sealions and penguins or the wolves and tigers to enable the children to learn more about photography and the animals as subjects for their photos (rather than walking long distances between different ends of the zoo).
The price will be £110.00 per child. For 2026 we have so far scheduled the following dates for the Zoo Photography for Junior Explorers workshop at the Colchester Zoological Society:
..7 March 2026 (Saturday) - fully booked
10 May 2026 (Sunday) - spaces available
13 June 2026 (Saturday) - only 1 space left
12 July 2026 (Sunday) - spaces available
(Further dates will be added, if required)
For more details on the Zoo Photography for Junior Explorers workshop and to book spaces for your child and yourself (or another guardian) on one of the above-mentioned dates please click on the highlighted workshop name above.
The format of our Wildlife Photography for Teenagers workshop (for children aged 10 to 15 years) will remain the same as it has been for the past years. This photography workshop offers the children of this age group the possibility to learn more about technical photography aspects as well as about how to approach wildlife photography and what it means to be a professional wildlife photographer. Children, who have taken up GCSE- or A-level photography will have the opportunity to explore wildlife photography and may be able to integrate images, they will take on the day (while having one-to-one support available) into their project work.
The Wildlife Photography for Teenagers workshop starts at 9:30am and finishes at 2:30pm and costs £167.50 per child participant. The following dates have been scheduled for the Wildlife Photography for Teenagers workshop at the Colchester Zoological Society in 2025/26:
..7 February 2026 (Saturday) - spaces available
19 April 2026 (Sunday) - only 2 spaces left
16 May 2026 (Saturday) - only 2 spaces left
..5 July 2026 (Sunday) - only 2 spaces left
(As in previous years, we will add further dates, if required)
For more details on the Wildlife Photography for Teenagers workshop and to book spaces for your child and yourself (or another guardian) on one of the above-mentioned dates please click on the highlighted workshop name above.
On the Seal Photography for Children workshop in Norfolk, our younger customers (aged 10-16 years) will have the opportunity to learn taking photos of wildlife (mainly seals) in its natural habitat. The children will be able to learn how to safely approach taking photos of wild animals and how to get good images by observing and capturing the action of seals and applying the best camera settings when taking photos of individual or groups of seals or even of landscapes.
The Seal Photography for Children workshop starts at 8:30am and finish at 12:00pm (3.5 hours), and the price for one child and one guardian is £139.50. As we will be in natural habitat areas and we will need to be very careful, where we will go, we limit the number of participants on this photography workshop to only 2 children plus one guardian each.
For 2026 we have scheduled the following days for our Seal Photography for Children workshop in Norfolk:
14 March 2026 (Saturday) / moulting season - spaces available
28 November 2026 (Saturday) / pupping season - spaces available
further dates will be announced if required
For more details on the Seal Photography for Children workshop in Norfolk and to book spaces for your child and yourself (or another guardian) on one of the above-mentioned dates, please click on the highlighted workshop name above.