Aug 8, 2021 | Miscellaneous |
Last week I was at Namiri Plains in the Serengeti. I was aware that over the last couple of years, a rare melanistic serval cat had been seen quite regularly near to camp. When I arrived, however, I was disappointed to learn that it had not been seen for a couple of months. But, I had not come to the Serengeti looking for black cats; my aim was to photograph lions for my next book project and so I resolved to focus all my attention on that instead. The lions of Namiri did not disappoint and thoughts of mini black panthers soon left my mind.
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Dec 22, 2017 | Miscellaneous |
I have recently returned from a fantastic photographic expedition down to the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands.
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Jun 7, 2017 | Miscellaneous |
I recently joined an expedition to Niassa Reserve in Northern Mozambique. I was part of a small team of conservationists and media producers. We were tasked with shooting material for “Niassa Wilderness”, a newly formed not-for-profit trust working to protect this remote wild place.
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Apr 30, 2015 | Miscellaneous |
I recently spent a few days in Kidepo Valley National Park, a remote reserve in the North of Uganda that borders South Sudan and Kenya. I hadn’t been in the Valley long when I met the resident male lion, a handsome chap known as…
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Nov 20, 2012 | Miscellaneous |
Earlier this year I visited the Cayman Islands and spent just over a week photographing the islands’ varied wildlife. These small specks of land in the northwest Caribbean formed millions of years ago and were gradually populated by castaways. Over huge periods of... Continue reading »
Oct 23, 2011 | Miscellaneous |
Earlier this year I spent eight days tracking Giant Pandas in the Qinling Mountains of Central China. This is one of the few remaining places where Giant Pandas exist in the wild. Due to habitat loss and human encroachment, pandas have been pushed into extremely... Continue reading »
Jul 27, 2011 | Miscellaneous |
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After visiting the fearsome dragons of Komodo Island, I headed to the island of Bohol in the Philippines, in search of a creature with considerably cuter looks – the Philippine Tarsier. The contrast couldn’t have been more extreme; within moments of laying eyes on my... Continue reading »
Jun 27, 2011 | Miscellaneous |
I recently spent three days traveling around the Indonesian islands of Komodo and Rinca, photographing the legendary Komodo dragons. Preparation for the trip commenced several weeks earlier, as I attempted to devise an effective and safe way of getting wide-angle,... Continue reading »
Mar 9, 2011 | Miscellaneous |
The annual wildebeest migration is well known as one of Africa’s most impressive spectacles. Over 1.5 million wildebeest migrate between the Serengeti in Tanzania and the Masai Mara in Kenya, making this the largest mass-movement of land mammals anywhere on Earth. In... Continue reading »
Jun 22, 2010 | Miscellaneous |
In March I visited Jordan. I have been few places that offer so much history and such astonishing natural beauty.
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