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We are there for you and on the road with you

you  Core team

As a student, traveled independently to Turkey, Iceland, France, Spain, Greece, Morocco and what was then Yugoslavia.  He is a qualified geologist specializing in volcanology. His diploma thesis took him to Greece and the Lipari Island. During his studies he already led many groups through Iceland, Italy, Africa and Asia and deepened his photography know-how with two photographers at the same time. Since his studies to this day, around 180 excursions and photo trips across the globe have followed. In the 1980s and 90s he published several books and countless articles on geoscientific and technical topics. As a synthesis of all his activities, the own travel company World Geographic Excursions grew up in 2011. Meanwhile a company with a good dozen photo guides for almost 60 travel dates to 30 destinations every year, as well as the core team including wife and son-in-law.

Chris Hug-Fleck

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As an English, French and Russian speaking economist, he is a cosmopolitan and at home all over the world. His main occupation is a self-employed consultant for technical development aid, educational software and know-how transfer. He is also responsible for travel agency support for World Geographic Excursions.

His destination: Iceland and France

Hans Weisser

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As an English, French and Russian-speaking economist, he is a cosmopolitan and is at home all over the world. His main job is an independent consultant for technical development assistance, educational software and know-how transfer. He is also responsible for travel agency support for World Geographic Excursions.

His destination: Iceland and Namibia

Hans Weisser

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worked at various destinations in Europe, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East as a water sports instructor. In 2004 he decided to turn his hobby into a profession and has been working as a photographer ever since. Since 2005 he has combined his love for photography, traveling and teaching in his photography courses and photography trips. In the core team, he is responsible for building up the social media presence and contributes to quality assurance and product development.

His destinations as a photo guide and photo trainer: Scotland, Ireland and the Aeolian Islands
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Your tour guides

Christian Beck

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is a qualified photo designer and has been working for the fotoforum publishing house since 2004. He has been a full-time editor there since 2010. His main focus is wedding and landscape photography. As an enthusiastic early riser, one sees him every now and then taking photos of animals in the nature of the Münsterland. He is an avowed Icelandic fan and couldn't think of a better place for beautiful landscape photos.

His destination as a photo guide: Iceland

Christian Beck

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is a qualified photo designer and has been working for the fotoforum publishing house since 2004. He has been a full-time editor there since 2010. His main focus is wedding and landscape photography. As an enthusiastic early riser, one sees him every now and then taking photos of animals in the nature of the Münsterland. He is an avowed Icelandic fan and couldn't think of a better place for beautiful landscape photos.

His destination as a photo guide: Iceland

Dr. Heiko Beyer

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has been a photojournalist, producer and speaker for more than twenty-five years. The graduated microelectronics engineer said goodbye to the development career to devote himself entirely to his passion for photography and presentation. With his own full-length live multivisions, Heiko is one of the most successful travel photographers and speaker in Germany. Heiko also produces audiovisual projects for industry and for well-known speakers. After all, he and two colleagues organize the renowned Fernweh Festival in his home town of Erlangen, which, with its many multivisions, seminars and workshops, is one of the largest in the German-speaking region.

His destinations as a photo guide: South America and Uganda / Congo

Sina Falker

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is a passionate travel photographer and discovered her passion in the age of analog photography. The qualified designer has been traveling mainly to countries in Latin America and Asia for over ten years to capture moments of everyday life and the diversity of the local cultures with photos. She loves unusual and dramatic landscapes, night shots under the stars and expressive portraits, whereby she  indigenous people are particularly fascinating. Due to her fondness for the Spanish language and the Latin American way of life, her travels have repeatedly taken her to the southern part of America. She lived and worked in Mexico for a year, which is why she grew particularly fond of the country with its diverse people and cultures.

Your destination as a photo guide: Mexico and the Ruhr area

Daniel Höhne

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Concentrated on Northern Europe from an early age, the "cold" countries are his passion. Iceland and Svalbard in particular are among the main areas of work for the graduate geographer. What was a passionate hobby for him for many years has now become his profession since 2012. Taking people who are interested in topics related to photography and the environment on tour and conveying the geography of our landscapes in addition to photographic content is what makes him personally the greatest pleasure. His destinations as a photo guide: Iceland, Svalbard and the Antarctic

Philipp Jakesch

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was born in Austria in 1987 and has had a deep connection to nature and the animals that live in it since his childhood. Since 2017, he has been focusing on nature photography as a full-time photographer. The harsh landscapes and the fascinating wildlife are of particular interest to him and he therefore leads numerous photography workshops and trips on these topics. In addition to great successes in international competitions, such as most recently at the NLPA, his first major specialist book on the subject of photography, “Photographing Water Landscapes,” was published at the end of 2022. https://jakesch.photography

Tour guiding is a great passion that he pursues with full energy and dedication.

Michael Leidel

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is a passionate nature filmmaker and photographer and has recently started his full-time job on his YouTube channel "amazing nature alpha" . He publishes mainly phototechnical aspects, but also highly regarded photography tutorials for his more than 65,000 subscribers. The countless vlogs were viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

His destinations as a photo guide: Namibia

Dr. Carola Lindig 

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has been bringing her knowledge and enthusiasm for nature and the environment full-time on trips and excursions to various regions and countries since 2015. For her, “going on a journey en route” means discovering our surroundings on various levels. The trained veterinarian is constantly developing her creativity in the form of handicraft projects and photography and it is a personal concern of hers to convey the contents of a trip to her guests in a multi-layered manner and to create a shared experience. Your destinations as a photo guide: Iceland, Aeolian Island, England and Scotland

Michael Lohmann

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has been passionately traveling to many countries around the world since his youth, a camera has always been with me. The east and south of Africa, the polar regions and Southeast Asia are among his favorites. His pictures, which he regularly shows in exhibitions, range from documentation to abstraction, from reality to reverie. As the former president of the Society for Nature Photography (GDT), Michael has dealt with aspects of creative nature photography on a daily basis. As a lecturer at the University of Bremen, he gives seminars in the field of ´design art / photography`. 

Julia Reisinger

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the trained photographer has traveled all over the world by land and water. She loves people, event and nature photography in its entirety and is happy to pass on her professional knowledge of working with the camera as well as image processing and archiving to her travel participants.

Your destinations as a photo guide: Iceland, Brittany, Azores, Hurtigruten
www.juliareisinger.com

Julia Reisinger

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the trained photographer has traveled all over the world by land and water. She loves people, event and nature photography in its entirety and is happy to pass on her professional knowledge of working with the camera as well as image processing and archiving to her travel participants.

Your destinations as a photo guide: Iceland, Brittany, Azores, Hurtigruten
www.juliareisinger.com

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