Southeast Asia Tour a Success!

Below are a few highlights of Karl’s recent SE Asia photo tour. More can be seen here. Next up for Karl is Myanmar. Jim’s Guatemala tour has another week to go – more Guatemala photos coming soon!
Jim’s Peru 2011 gallery, now open for viewing!

Below are a few highlights of Jim’s photos from his Peru 2011 photo tour. The full album can be seen here. Also – we still have room on one of our 2012 Peru trips. To get more information or to register, just click on the “Tours” tab above and select the Peru link. Peru is [...]
We’ve released our Copper Canyon trip to be led by Ralph Velasco!

The Copper Canyon train is considered one of the great train rides of the world. We’ll ride the train as it winds from the Pacific Coast to the Copper Canyon, located in the Sierra Madre Mountains, passing over 37 bridges and 86 tunnels along the way! We’ll explore and photograph the areas around the rim [...]
JCPT Alumni, Lou Montrose wins Travel Photographer of the Year award

Our congratulations go out to Jim Cline Photo Tours alumni Lou Montrose who recently was named Travel Photographer of the Year. Lou’s work has been exhibited in shows in London, Madrid, Copenhagen, and Buenos Aires as well as in California, Colorado, and Ohio; and has been published in LensWork, Black & White, COLOR, and other fine art photography [...]
Day of the Dead, Oaxaca, 2012 with Jim Cline – Only 1 spaces remaining!

Hope you enjoy these photos taken by Jim last month in Oaxaca. Jim has been running this trip for several years, it is one of his favorites.
More India photo tour pix

Hope you enjoy these photos from Karl’s current photo tour in India! Tour Participant, Cheryl Griffin Tour participants getting to know the locals in Jodhpur, The Blue City. Our local guide, Digvijay or DV in Jaisalmer. Tour participant, Ruti capturing the beautiful sunrise on a rooftop near Jaisalmer fort. Jaisalmer – The Golden City
Two photo tours currently underway!
Greetings Travel Photographers! My name is Kat Miner. I’ve recently joined the Jim Cline Photo Tours team to assist Jim with his barrage of administrative duties that come with running Jim Cline Photo Tours . I met Jim and Karl about 10 years ago, first as fellow participants in the photography exhibition at the San [...]
Welcome to our new website

First of all we want to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of our loyal clients. We appreciate your business and we look forward to continuing to offer the best photo tours possible, to the most amazing and wonderful places in the world. For a long time many of you have become [...]
Peru tour – We’re in Pisac

We came down into the sacred valley from Cusco today. Some of us took a long downhill hike through some terraces, along a narrow ridge, through a cave, down past some Inca ruins and back into town…amazing! Tonight we are staying at the quaint little Hotel Pisac, right on the plaza. Tomorrow morning Pisac’s Sunday [...]
Peru Photo Tour off to a great start

Our group assembled in Lima earlier this week and now we’re in Cusco. The photographic opportunities have been fantastic. We visited Sacsaywaman at sunset, it was amazing! Tomorrow we head down into the sacred valley to the town of Pisac to witness one of the most colorful and photogenic local markets in Peru.
Jim Cline and Karl Grobl Photo tour blog launches

ell, it’s about time!
Karl and I decided to get going on a blog so that we could keep everyone informed about our photo tour schedule, events, updates and all the happenings at Jim Cline Photo Tours.


An award-winning photographer based in San Diego, California, Jim especially enjoys exploring and photographing less-traveled areas, avoiding the typical tourist destinations. He takes particular interest in the indigenous peoples and traditional and tribal cultures of developing nations, and in documenting these disappearingcultures.
Karl is a humanitarian photojournalist specializing in the photographic documentation of relief efforts and development work of NGOs worldwide. Over the last ten years, Karl has worked in over 50 countries, covering stories from the Indian Ocean Tsunami, to HIV/AIDS, malaria and Micro-Finance.