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‘Empire of the Desert Ants’ broadcast!
August 6th, 2011
My most recentĀ film, ‘Empire of the Desert Ants’ is going to be broadcast on Wednesday 10th August 2011 on BBC2 & BBC HD, kicking off this summer’s run of Natural World films. Radio times have given it ‘Pick of the Day’ and said it is an ‘astounding feat of photography’, The Times called it ‘a […] Read more »
Back from Madagascar (in one piece)
July 26th, 2011
We finally got back from Madagascar on the 15th July after a hard month in the field finishing off our “Lemur Blues” film for BBC2. We started off by heading up country to the ‘protected area’ of Makira, on an expedition to dart whatever groups of Silky Sifaka’s we could find. This was probably the […] Read more »
Back from the rooks …. off to Madagascar …
June 15th, 2011
Well, the rooks probably won, or at least it was a score draw. They hadn’t really had enough time to get used to the experimental equipment (although it was all kit that they had played with in the past), but we got some interesting footage and certainly enough to set the ball rolling. I’ve had […] Read more »
Off to film Rooks …
June 5th, 2011
I’m off to film rooks for a week in Strasbourg – for a film about bird cognition – I expect that they will confirm that the average corvid is smarter than the average cameraman. Apparently they do all sorts of fantastic behaviours that suggest that there is a whole lot more going on in the […] Read more »
Filming with Patrick Eggle
May 27th, 2011
We had a really good day filming at the workshop of the incredible Patrick Eggle – one of the finest and best respected guitar builders in the world. We were looking for a guitar builder who could talk about Madagascan rosewood for our ‘Lemur Blues’ film for BBC2. Not only did Patrick have some Madagascan […] Read more »
Player of the Year …
May 13th, 2011
I know there is nothing more tedious than parents going on about how great their kids are, but I couldn’t let in go unmentioned that Max was Witney RFC’s U6 Player of the Year this year – he really deserved it, I’m very proud and I’m rather enjoying living out my unrequited sporting dreams through […] Read more »
Matt Schofield Trio
May 13th, 2011
I managed to secure an evening release pass to see the Matt Schofield Trio at The Bullingdon in Oxford (which used to me my local pub in my student days). A fantastic gig with some of the best guitar playing I’ve heard. The combination of drums, guitar and Hammond organ is just so right. It […] Read more »
Photo shoot for Mabel & Rose
May 13th, 2011
Lat week I did a morning’s photography for our good friends Dan & Claire (Dan designed and built this website) – their company, Mabel & Rose sells vintage garden furniture – much of it sourced from France. It was all slightly rushed between dropping off Max & Felix, then charging back to pick up Felix, […] Read more »
Back from Tunisia
May 5th, 2011
We had a very good shoot despite working from some rather iffy information (the 60 Oryx turned out to be the same group of 20 seen in 3 different locations on 3 different days, no newborn while we were there, and the jackals, I’m sure, play very little role in predating the young) – other […] Read more »
Off to Tunisia
April 1st, 2011
Heading off to Tunisia for three weeks for the BBC Natural History Unit’s ‘Africa‘ series – the plan is to film Jackal predating Scimitar Horned Oryx … at night. It’s going to be tricky but we have half the BBC’s infra-red kit store to keep us occupied. Really looking forward to this – it’s a […] Read more »