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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 »

So, I still have unfinished business with the wolf packs of Anchorage, five years ago we put a huge amount of effort spread over a year to get one shot of a wolf, and this time it was a complete no show, but not for want of trying … We had a pretty amazing set […] Read more »

With the inevitability of that seal being washed off the ice floe to be gobbled up by a marauding pod of killer whales, the Frozen Planet camera team bagged the Best Photography prize at the Royal Television Society awards last night  – somewhat predictable, but I think I would have had a heart attack if it […] Read more »

I have just been sent the list of nominations for the Royal Television Society awards this Thursday, the exciting news is that, in addition to my nomination for Best Photography for Empire of the Desert Ants, the Madagascar series I spent the best part of two years working on has also been nominated for Best […] Read more »

Exciting news from the Royal Television Society yesterday: I`m delighted to now be able to inform you that the judging of the RTS 2012 awards has been completed. This year we had more entries than ever before and the good news is The following has  been nominated: John Brown for Natural World: Empire of the […] Read more »

We had a great evening out at the V&A in London yesterday. My friend Simon Peers had a private viewing of his incredible spider silk textiles – a flat panelled piece and an astonishing cape. The panelled piece has already caused quite a stir in the US, spending time on exhibit in the New York […] Read more »

Our latest Natural World film – Madagascar, Lemurs & Spies – is finished, here is some fantastic advanced publicity for the film in BBC Wildlife Magazine:   Read more »

Finally home after a very busy last few months that has included trips to Brazil, Scotland and Ethiopia. We’ve just had a really great shoot in Alaska – the first for a two part series for Animal Planet – it was fantastic to be back, the last time I was there was three years ago […] Read more »

Well, that was certainly one of the more weird trips of the last 10 years. First off, the baboons were fantastic, they gave us the run around, disappeared at rather inconvenient moments and lead us on some pretty hardcore forced marches, but they behaved beautifully. My main job was to film as much behaviour as […] Read more »

After a lovely couple of weeks at home its time to head off again, this time to central Ethiopia to film Hamadryas Baboons for a BBC Natural World film called ‘Baboons, Guns & Me’, about the travails of an Australian primatologist working with this fantastic species. I’m really looking for ward to this, I made […] Read more »