News
Green Planet & Frozen Planet II
July 11th, 2019
I’ve recently started filming for two major landmark series being produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Frozen Planet II continues the pattern of revisiting and updating historical BBC landmark series. It’s 10 years since the original Frozen Planet – this new series explores the earth’s cold regions using the best of contemporary film-making techniques. […] Read more »
Dynasties; Tiger broadcast
December 8th, 2018
The final film of BBC1’s Dynasties series, Tiger, will be broadcast at 8pm on Sunday 9th December. This is the second Dynasties film that I worked on, and I spent two and a half years on my life alternating between filming in India for Tiger and Senegal for Chimpanzee. The two films were very different beasts, literally […] Read more »
Dynasties Broadcast
November 9th, 2018
It’s been a long time coming, but Dynasties, the series that I’ve spent most of the last three years working on, is starting on Sunday 11th November at 8.30 on BBC1. There are five films and I filmed the first; Chimpanzee, and the last; Tiger. Our aim was to follow an individual animal for two years, documenting […] Read more »
Dynasty series coming soon to BBC1
September 4th, 2018
It’s been a long time in the making, but the series I spent much of the last three years working on is ready to be broadcast. I filmed all of the tiger film, half of the chimp film and completely fell for both of our key characters. To have had the opportunity to spend so […] Read more »
Photography Exhibition …
August 25th, 2015
I have an exhibition of my photography opening at the North Street Gallery in Ashburton, Devon, this week. The opening night private viewing is on Wednesday 26th of August and the exhibition runs until the 12th of September. The work on show is predominantly still life images of natural objects I’ve collected over the years with […] Read more »
Glass frogs
August 5th, 2015
Well that was fun in an odd sort of way. Three weeks in an extremely wet forest filming very small things on the undersides of leaves. We were telling the story of the male brood care of the Reticulated Glass frog – all very wonderful – and to be revealed when the BBC One Planet series […] Read more »
Awards, tigers & frogs
July 10th, 2015
It’s been a long time since my last post, and this is going to have to be a short one as I’m about to get on a plane … A very busy couple of months; we had a long and fantastic trip for our tiger film, and filmed some beautiful sequences. I don’t think I’ve […] Read more »
New website, new film …
February 26th, 2015
I’ve finally got around to getting my fine art photography website done – huge thank you to my friend Dan (www.branigan.co.uk) for burning the midnight oil to get everything finished before I head off. The site contains a selection of still life studies of various natural objects I’ve picked up during my travels, and some […] Read more »
Alaska – Tonight!
February 4th, 2015
The BBC series about the natural history of Alaska, which I spent a year or so working on, starts tonight at 8pm on BBC2. A lovely team and one of my favourite parts of the world. Read more »