News

The BBC Madagascar series that I spent nearly two years working on has just been nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Sound / Music in the 2012 News & Documentary EMMY awards to be held in New York in October. Great news for everyone who worked so hard on the series. Read more »

After the best part of 9 weeks away from home I’m finally back, and we’re all very much due a holiday. We had a fantastic four weeks in Zambia with the Wild Dogs, they have always been one of my favourite species and to get to spend such a long period of time with them […] Read more »

‘Empire of the Desert Ants’ has just been nominated in the ‘Best Animal Behaviour’ category at the 2012 Wildscreen awards. Wildscreen is the world’s biggest and most prestigious natural history film festival – the wildlife film equivalent of the Oscars. The full list of nominations is here. For more information about the film see here. […] Read more »

Finally home from the Great Alaskan Road Trip. It felt like (and was) a pretty long shoot, just under five weeks. All in all it was good, we got some great filming done although is was tough going for the most part, not least due to the fact that it’s difficult to know exactly when […] Read more »

I got back from Hawaii 10 days ago, it was a really good trip, lots of variety and a huge amount fitted into a few filming days. The first three days were in the studio with the fantastic Steve Montgomery filming a couple of types of carnivorous caterpillars (one of which he discovered). It was […] Read more »

I’m off to Hawaii for 10 days, working for Parthenon Entertainment. This is for the same series of films that the 2hr Alaska film I’ve been busy filming is for. It’s a fairly packed schedule that includes Monk Seals, volcanic scenery and carnivorous caterpillars. The latter sound fantastic; one species that has evolved to ‘slingshot’ […] Read more »

The list of winners from the prestigious 35th Missoula International Wildlife Film festival has just been announced, and our recent Natural World film for BBC2, Madagascar Lemurs & Spies, has scooped awards in three categories: Best Conservation Message, Best of Category in Conservation, and a Merit Award for Cinematography. All very exciting, and fantastic news […] Read more »

A couple of days ago we inspected our bee colony for the first time this year. They were a tiny colony going into winter, and we’ve dipped below -10C a few times, so we were somewhat concerned that they might not make it. But whenever the sun has put in an appearance in the last […] Read more »

Our latest Natural World film; Madagascar, Lemurs & Spies is going to be broadcast this Thursday 15th March at 8PM on BBC2. It is the amazing story of two very different men who have risked everything to expose illegal logging in Madagascar and to protect the critically endangered Silky Sifaka. Erik Patel has spent 10 […] Read more »

We had a fantastic family get together in Harrogate at the weekend to celebrate the 70th birthdays of Auntie Connie and Uncle Mike – a surprise party organised with enviable precision by cousins Laura and Dan (thank you!). It was a great opportunity to re-create a photograph of all the Tennant cousins (my mother’s side […] Read more »