Emily McCulliss
Global Nature Photographer & Expedition Guide
Every purchase funds whale conservation, scientific research, and ocean education.
When you buy something here, you're funding:
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Days on the water to be able to find the moments we are all searching for
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Behavioral and photographic documentation for research
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Educational content reaching the tourism, hospitaltity and education sectors.
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Conservation funding
The options:
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Support the full documentation through Founding Patron or Founding Access membership.
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Buy the output through prints, downloads, and magazines.
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Join a Tonga expedition and be in the water yourself
Every dollar goes back to the ocean. To the vessel that gets us there. To the documentation that makes people care. To the educational materials that carry that message forward. And to the active conservation and emergency response efforts protecting humpbacks in Hawaiian waters.
You're not just buying art. You're funding connection. education. conservation
Founding Access - $150.00
Season 1 Only
✅ Signed coffee table book at pre-order pricing ($90 vs. $125 public) with handwritten dedication note
✅ Digital magazine (a $25.00 value)
✅ 10% subscriber discount on all Open Collection prints
✅ Expedition subscriber rates for whale/ pelagic swimming expeditions (Tonga, Norway, Mexico - priority pricing + early invitation)
✅ Subscription to Maui Whales & Ocean Tales, all interviews and materials, all access
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Founding Patron - $350.00
Seasons 1 + 2
✅ Everything in Founding Access plus Season 2
✅ Signed 12 x 18 exclusive, framed whale print (a $205.00 value)
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On the Water with Emily Shared Vessel | 2 Hours Join Emily on a whale watch unlike any other: part behavioral education, part photography workshop, part personal encounter with Maui's most extraordinary winter residents. Learn to read the water, understand what you are witnessing, and capture it with intention.
Welcome the Whales Private Vessel | 4 Hours + 2 Hours Editing A private, photography-focused celebration of Maui's winter season: 4 hours on the water with Emily. Behavioral education, personal storytelling, and hands-on photography guidance throughout. Followed by two hours of post-session editing to bring your best images to life.
Image Editing with Emily | Remote or In Person | By the Hour Already have images from Maui's waters? Emily works through your best frames with you - culling, editing, and refining until they are images worth keeping.
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Above the Whales Doors-Off Helicopter | Aerial Photography with Emily There is no perspective quite like this one. Join Emily in a doors-off helicopter above the ʻAuʻau Channel for an aerial photography experience focused entirely on Maui's humpback whales. Learn to shoot from elevation, work with light and movement, and capture the scale of these animals in a way that is simply impossible from the surface. Guidance throughout from one of the few photographers in the world who documents this coastline from above, on, and below the water. Pricing upon inquiry
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