Frustrated by impersonal courses, complicated manuals, and information overload?

There’s a better way to learn.

Introducing our 1-year mentorship program

Nature photography and all the things that surround it can be confusing, and knowing how and where to take the next step to better images can be hard without personalized education. You don’t have to go it alone.

Professional nature photographer and educator Syler Peralta-Ramos will be your instructor and personal mentor for a full year, speeding up your journey and helping you every step of the way.

Why do we spend thousands of dollars on new equipment but simply turn to free YouTube videos to learn how to use them? It is no wonder so many people give up on their photography journey!

Whether your aim is to start selling prints, or simply to take better pictures on your next vacation, personalized help will save you time and money in reaching your goals.

How does it work?

A few topics covered:

• Mastering exposure in the real world (aperture, shutter, ISO)

• Camera setup (custom buttons, focusing modes, and more specific camera menus/settings for your specific camera)

• Image organization, culling and storage solutions

• Mastering Adobe Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and plugins

• What gear you need, why you need it, and when to use it

• Mastering composition

• Skills and best practices for wildlife images

• Skills and best practices for landscape images

• Social media tips and tricks/growing an audience

• Building a photography website

• Printing & selling photography online

• Nature videography & editing tips and tricks

• Tips for photo competitions

• Ethics in nature photography

• Mastering gesture and understanding animal behavior

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The program will kick off in January of 2026 for a small number of selected participants to ensure adequate private time can be devoted to each participant. The course will conclude at the end of December in 2026. The cohort list will be finalized in late November 2025 and you will be notified of your acceptance into the program by December 15, 2025.

OPTION 1: Full Mentorship

$7250 ($550 off) when paid up-front*

OR

$650 per month, billed monthly

What does the full mentorship include?

  • Two 1-hour private sessions per month with Syler, tailored to your specific needs, goals, or questions along the way.

  • Email correspondence with Syler 2-3x per week for more urgent questions or advice.

  • Two ~1.5-hour group lessons over zoom per month with the full cohort with recordings available for re-watching or for missed sessions.

  • 50% off a split-day tour in Grand Teton or full-day in Yellowstone at the date of your choosing, or a $500 credit towards one of our 2026 Expeditions.

    *This all adds to 48 lessons with roughly 100 hours of personalized instruction, all for a competitive price of just $72.5/hour.

OPTION 2: Mini Mentorship

$2400 ($180 off) when paid up-front*

OR

$215 per month, billed monthly

What does the mini mentorship include?

  • Access to the two ~1.5-hour group lessons over zoom per month with the full cohort with recordings available for re-watching or for missed sessions.**

  • 20% off a split-day tour in Grand Teton or full day in Yellowstone at the date of your choosing, or a $200 credit towards one of our 2026 Expeditions.

    *This adds up to 24 sessions at $100 per session

    **the mini mentorship does not include 1-on-1 sessions

Why chose a mentorship?

As a workshop instructor, I have worked with dozens of clients stuck using their camera in automatic mode–despite having spent thousands of dollars on trips and equipment. The truth is, top-of-the-line gear + unstructured field experience doesn’t always equal an improvement in your images.

But I can tell you what does: a photography mentor to guide you through every aspect of learning nature photography.

So skip the endless complexity of YouTube, instruction books, or pre-recorded classes, and join my 1-year mentorship. With personalized education, you can get all of your questions answered on-demand and stop wasting weeks looking for answers.

I created this program to make the process easy, condensing over 12 years of my photography knowledge into a one year experience. This course will help fill the hole that exists in photography education, fast-track your learning, and provide the kind of support to others that I wished I could have had along the way.

I’m excited to help you take nature photos you never thought possible!

Meet Syler, your personal photography mentor

Syler Peralta-Ramos is an award-winning photographer, guide, conservationist, storyteller, teacher, and ownter of Pangea Expeditions. He grew up in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and has lived there for over 27 years, only briefly leaving Wyoming to complete his B.S. in Environmental Science and an M.A. in Multimedia Environmental Communication at Stanford University.

In the classroom, Syler developed an in-depth understanding of wildlife, the natural world and the threats they face – always aiming to share that understanding with others through his photography and teaching. His interests have brought him to all corners of the globe, from Svalbard in the high arctic to the savannas of South Africa. But the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Alaska remain his two favorite places on Earth.

On the technical side of photography, Syler was mentored by wildlife legend Thomas D. Mangelsen among countless others while growing up in Jackson Hole, a photography hotspot. There, he refined his personal photographic style which is focused squarely on truthful yet artfully creative depictions of the natural world. Like Mangelsen, Syler’s style focuses on getting the image right in camera, using post-processing sparingly to retain a natural yet artistic look and feel.

From Stanford classrooms to working as a guide , Syler has helped hundreds of students achieve their photographic goals, whatever they may be.