Travel Stories

The past weeks, I had the honor of guiding the first ever dedicated Starling photography trip into West Papua. The main target, off course, would be to photograph around a dozen species of Birds of paradise, in addition to some of the many endemics that make the fauna of New …

In 1999 I was in the right Area, but I did not manage to see the Full Solar Eclipse that casted its shadow over tiny Belgium.I then swore not to miss the next one.Fast forward to 2026 then... when Iceland, Greenland, Portugal and Spain would showcase a total solar eclipse on …

Last month I joined Jeffrey Van Daele to guide a STARLING trip into South Africa, to the infamous Zimanga private game reserve. Those last three words mean that the land is privately owned, and that ecotourism (not hunting) is the purpose of the reserve. Tucked away in the heart …

How often does someone do anything for you, that you could not do for them? Apart from cooking a nice exotic meal, that is.Not that often I reckon, and it's usually your parents that do it.So when our friends Willem & Eva invited a bunch of friends and their kids to Las …

Ten years ago, Pieter-Jan D’Hondt and myself grew bored of taking pictures we had seen taken by others. We saw people -often retired people with more time on their hands- spend weeks outside, coming up with pictures we could only dream of taking ourselves. Simply because we did …

In July I was given the opportunity to guide a Starling trip aimed at the amazing wildlife Brazil has to offer. We would focus on the biggest wetland in the world, the Pantanal, after a visit to some of the higher upstream regions that flow down into the Pantanal.The Pantanal is …