{"podcast":{"title":"Great Big Photography World","slug":"great-big-photography-world-146034","podcast_index_feed_id":146034,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/great-big-photography-world/","website_url":"https://greatbigphotographyworld.podbean.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/f0314f9c-e63c-4bcb-9a42-19fe9071827b/great-big-photography-world.jpg","author":"Perrin","episode_count":290,"summary":"We want Great Big Photography World to be a source of valuable advice, inspiration, and motivation. We put a lot of love and effort into each episode and choose our interview guests very carefully.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T18:19:14.153524+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-big-photography-world-146034"},"episode":{"title":"Carolien Hoek – The Camera and the Journal: One Wildlife Photographer's Quest to Collect and Document the World's Birds | Episode #287","slug":"carolien-hoek-the-camera-and-the-journal-one-wildlife-photographer-s-quest-to-collect-and-document-the-world-s-birds-episode-287","published_at":"2026-07-15T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-big-photography-world-146034/carolien-hoek-the-camera-and-the-journal-one-wildlife-photographer-s-quest-to-collect-and-document-the-world-s-birds-episode-287","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-big-photography-world-146034","url":"https://greatbigphotographyworld.podbean.com","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1edcd6ab-a412-4999-b934-216f31688dce.mp3","summary":"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/","meta_description":"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 bi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3161,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/great-big-photography-world-146034/episodes/carolien-hoek-the-camera-and-the-journal-one-wildlife-photographer-s-quest-to-collect-and-document-the-world-s-birds-episode-287/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/great-big-photography-world-146034/carolien-hoek-the-camera-and-the-journal-one-wildlife-photographer-s-quest-to-collect-and-document-the-world-s-birds-episode-287.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}