lots of learning and hands on experiences
chef prepared meals around the clock
community of women to grow with
amazing location
Join us for an incredible all women's photography retreat in Belt, Montana at the gorgeous Ranches at Belt Creek Dude Ranch! Sept 29th-Oct 2nd, 2025! This will be a luxury photography retreat with chef prepared meals around the clock.
Open for registration!
The Roadtripper's retreat is designed for women who want to invest in their business, elevate their hobby, and develop their brand style. They love photography, thrive on being around other creative women, and want to keep investing in their craft no matter where they are on their journey.
It will be a safe place to learn and explore areas of your photography that you want to improve. It will be a place to share what you love about photography and inspire others with the accomplishments you've already made.
My name is Marcie Reif and I created the Roadtrippers Retreat for women who were looking to grow in their photography, connect with other female photographers, and combine travel and adventure along with it. I help women who are struggling with self confidence, trying to grow their business, and looking to improve their photography in all areas. I teach women to believe in themselves and give them the tools to achieve their goals.
My Mission...
I speak at conferences around the country, lead workshops, run photography retreats and mentor photographers one on one. Teaching is a true passion of mine along with photography and nothing makes me happier than working with women looking to grow in all areas of their photography and confidence.
I created this retreat to bring women together who share a common love for photography. I help women to build their photography community and create life long friends that they can share the ups and downs with in this industry.
I give women an experience that they can't find anywhere else. They are completely pampered for the week including round the clock chef prepared meals. I choose locations that will inspire their creative side and surround them with absolute beauty.
Fear and self doubt can be crippling
It's a road block on your journey
The Roadtripper's Retreat is an adventure that will set you free
Everybody listen up, this retreat is THE retreat if you're looking to learn more, connect more, reset, relax, and feel inspired, and...RETREAT. Details are everything and Marcie Reif and her team has put their attendees at the focus for this event in every detail. From the education, the food (hello in-home chefs!), the speakers, the ameneties...everything! If you've been thinking about investing in yourself and your photography business, look no further and book it today before it sells out. I give this retreat 10/10 stars.
I came across this retreat and was hesitant about the cost. Kept praying about it and I jumped right in. I can’t even put into words how this has impacted my confidence. It’s intimidating going into something not knowing anyone. Marcie reassured me from the beginning and I trusted her. It’s an experience I’ll never forget. Every detail, even the food and hospitality. I walked away with valuable relationships and a community of photographers from all over. I learned a lot from different aspects. I taught others what I knew, not even realizing I could be a help to others. Marcie did an amazing job on all the details! Adding what I’ve learned and my confidence has given my business the push it needed to continue doing what I love.
I knew I needed to expand my knowledge, but daang I've learned even more than I expected!! As much as I didn't want to experience the end I could wait to get home to execute everything I've learned!! I feel so INSPIRED and a new fire has been lit! Thank you so much Marcie for putting this amazing retreat together.
The Roadtrippers Retreat was amazing. After coming home, today was the first time in a while I woke and was excited! Usually I wake up and know there is work to do, I enjoy it for the most part but today I woke up and my heart was burning, my mind racing a mile a minute, and I felt REALLY EXCITED.
I have no words to describe the last few days I spent in Florida with an amazing group of ladies. I traveled for almost 24 hours yesterday so had plenty of time to think of what I was going to say, but still, at am a loss for words. The Roadtrippers Retreat hosted by Marcie Reif was truly incredible. I did not expect, but I experienced the unexpected. An amazing community of talented photographers brought together in Florida just to talk about photography, business, and just life.
From the minute I arrive until the moment I left, I was blown away. Your efforts to make this retreat special really showed. Definitely was the best retreat I have ever been too. Thank you so much for everything you did and all that you shared. I learned so much and had a great time. A truly wonderful group of women.
What a wonderful time! I loved all of the education, the wonderful food and pampering, but most of all, making new friends!
Last year's retreat in Bear Lake was so awesome, I didn't know if it could be topped...but I may have loved this year even more!! the chefs were AMAZING, the session locations were unreal, and the house we stayed at all together was incredible. I loved getting to know all of the attendees and being able to learn from Marcie! My cup is full! Such an incredible experience and I'm already looking forward to the next one!!
Where to even begin. I have reflected numerous times on this trip. I signed up still shooting in auto. You were kind enough to have a zoom meeting with me and it motivated me to learn manual. I came in as a person who shot primarily landscape. I was a little nervous to go and finding out everyone had their own businesses was a little intimidating at first but everyone was so nice and I was there to learn so it was fine. Kim and Shalonda were also incredible additions! I appreciated their insight and mentorship immensely. There is just something you get from in person learning versus learning online. I’ve reached out to a few in the group afterwards and have done a few family photos since. Nothing huge but it has pushed me to a different level.
The details of the retreat and the well thought out planning really showed.
Making sure that your expectations are exceeded is the number one reason I bring a team with me to every Roadtrippers Retreat. Every single team member will make sure that your experience is top notch and all your needs are met. Each and everyone of them will be memorable to you and make this retreat extra special for you.
Staff & Guest Photographers
Kristyna & Katie
Guest Speaker
Lead Educator & Host
the people that make it all happen
Meet the team
Chefs
Kristyna Lewis has been a photographer for 22 years. Mostly photographing seniors, families, commercial, schools..ok everything except weddings these days! Her loves include her home state of Kentucky, talking, laughing, being on the farm with her family, traveling, church and being surrounded with fun people! She’s a farmers wife and a Momma to 2 little country bumpkins. She’s an open book, so feel free to pick her (very chaotic 🤣) brain!
Kim Bear is a portrait & branding photographer who creates nostalgic images using moody light and vintage props, and creates branding photos and video for creative business owners. In addition to that, she is also a photography educator and mentor, traveling around the country to speak throughout the year at different conferences. Kim is a published and award winning photographer. She lives with her family in Kansas.
Katie Davis is the ‘eye’ behind Kat’s Eye Photography! She has been capturing memories of newborns, kids, and families since 2011.
As a former NICU/PICU nurse turned full time photographer and a mom to three growing kids, she understand the importance of preserving memories as often as possible.
Katie is located in Danville, KY with a studio that focuses on newborns & family.
Meet the Guest Photographers
There will be a full staff of caretakers that will ensure a luxurious and care-free experience.
The retreat will also feature presentations from industry leaders to help you grow as a photographer!
What you can expect.
Throughout the retreat we will cover the material in this master class along with hands on styled shoots, editing, portfolio & website reviews. You will go home with a printed 100+ page workbook with all the material included.
Creating beautiful photos is not enough to run a thriving photography business. You have to think like a business owner and have things in place that allow your clients to find you and pay you. Marcie left the elementary classroom in 2017 and has grown her photography business into a multi 6 figure business year after year. Marcie will share all her secrets that she believes are the reason her photography business is booming and it's all things that you can do too. Marcie wrote this masterclass for the Roadtrippers Retreat to make sure we cover absolutely everything you need to go home and start crushing it with your photography business.
details
Learn how to achieve your goals along side of fear. There is no magical cure to making fear disappear but we can learn how to create along side it, when to listen to it, and when not too. You will learn that your fears are very comparable to everyone in the room. We will finally convince ourselves that fear is here to stay but we can learn to push past those voices and get to work on our goals.
We all learn photography from different platforms. This chapter is to go over the basics and share how I set my camera up to get the sharpest images possible, what lenses I like to use, and how I use light. We will discuss light and how it effects everything including all of your editing. This chapter will dissolve some frustrations you're having with your images "missing" something.
Being good at photography is not enough to have a thriving business. This chapter is to learn about the pieces that need to be in place to have a successful business. We will discuss a functioning website vs a pretty website. The importance of an email list, how to create one, your client communication workflow, setting up forms to book your sessions and get paid. Sale and marketing and how to talk to your clients to convert them to a paying client, setting your prices, using social media and so much more!
Mini Sessions are one of my favorite topics to teach on. When photographers want to know how to make more money but they are afraid to raise their prices, this is your answer. I will teach you my mini session model that will significantly raise your annual income. My entire marketing, workflow, and system is included to turn these sessions back to clients quickly.
I have always been known for a strong and organized workflow that has genuinely allowed me to grow my business each year and add on more volume without spending a lot more time. I share all my secretes and exactly how I do things.
This is where we wrap up the goodness of the retreat and set out to achieve our goals. Not only do we talk about our goals we talk about the actionable steps it's going to take to get there. You will leave motivated with a vision and a goal for what's next.
Editing Demos and group editing will be a great opportunity to watch how Marcie edits as well as ask questions and get help with things you're frustrated with.
Group website reviews will also be a huge growth experience and give you some direction and knowledge on how to make changes to your website to make it work better for your business.
This is a huge growth experience where your creativity will be pushed to try new things and in the end create stronger work in the future.
We have 3 styled shoots planned. We will have a family styled shoot during the golden hour, a product and branding shoot, and finally we will take each other's headshots during the golden hour. We will dress up and have so.much.fun! We will have our cameras out the entire time but these are 3 designated planned and styled shoots. I will bring dresses from the client closet for the headshot hour. Often times by this point in the retreat everyone is sharing clothes, doing each other's hair & make up, and having a blast. You will come home with beautiful new headshots of yourself!
time for rest and relaxation
luxurious house with beautiful views
Snacks, drinks, and Treats Galore
Chef prepared meals
Google defines a luxury retreat as an "indulgence in and enjoyment of rich, comfortable, and sumptuous living" which is what we plan to deliver to you while you are here! We will have a hostess team that will take care of everything so you don't have too!
Expect the Unexpected
where the magic happens
the House
The Roadtrippers retreat will take place at a dude ranch in Belt, Montana called Ranches at Belt Creek. The closest airport to fly into is Great Falls International Airport.
This airport is 40 mins away from the Ranches at Belt Creek
We will do our best to connect you to other attendees that you can ride share with to and from the retreat.
The retreat will officially start on Monday Sept 29th at 4pm. We will spend the evening getting to know each other and have a welcome dinner prepared by our amazing chefs! We will start the night with part one of our masterclass.
Will start the day with a sunrise shoot, breakfast, learning, lunch, more learning, hands on styled family shoot, dinner, and relaxing! All meals will be prepared by our amazing chefs!
This day will include more learning from me, a styled branding shoot, editing, portfolio and website reviews, and finally headshot hour during our golden hour. We will also have 3 amazing meals by our chefs!
Thursday will include breakfast and goodbyes! Check out is at 10am. It is your responsibility to arrange transportation to get back to the airport.
Choose Your Room
*ONLY 4 MORE AVAILABLE
Enjoy your own private room with a king bed + private bathroom with a shower. This prices includes all your meals and your entire stay at the Roadtrippers Retreat. *these are not exact images of what your bedroom will look like.
Private King Room + Private Bathroom
$3650
By booking this option, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions required for attendance at the retreat
Private Queen Room + Private Bathroom
$3550
By booking this option, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions required for attendance at the retreat
*ONLY ONE MORE AVAILABLE
Enjoy your own private room with a queen bed + private bathroom with a shower. This prices includes all your meals and your entire stay at the Roadtrippers Retreat. *these are not exact images of what your bedroom will look like.
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