# Carolien Hoek – The Camera and the Journal: One Wildlife Photographer's Quest to Collect and Document the World's Birds | Episode #287

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Podcast: [Great Big Photography World](https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-big-photography-world-146034)
Published: 2026-07-15T09:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://greatbigphotographyworld.podbean.com
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Duration seconds: 3161

## Resource

In this episode, Perrin sits down with Carolien Hoek, a Dutch wildlife photographer and travel writer who has spent the better part of a decade chasing birds across six continents, from photography hides in Belgium and the Netherlands to the rainforests of Ecuador and the mountains of northern India. Carolien talks about how a bored afternoon in a photography hide with her husband's spare camera started an obsession she never saw coming, why she thinks of herself as a collector first and a photographer second, and the challenges of sitting in a hide for 14 hours waiting for the right bird to show up. She gets into the difference between a birder's checklist and a photographer's standard, why she will never photograph a bird sitting on a feeder, and how writing detailed travel journals for every trip she takes has become just as important to her as the images she brings home. Check out the episode article here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/ carolien-hoek Want to support the show? Click here: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/supporter/ Join our online photography community to interact with photographers just like this, get access to fun photo contests, find inspiration daily, and much more! https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/join/

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