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Just home after a really great trip to Brazil. The first few days were spent working the the fantastic Rob Sullivan on his Natural World film about three orphaned Jaguars which are being reared by Leandro & Anna Silveria. Leandro and Anna were absolutely incredible; super hospitality and their skill and devotion to their work […] Read more »

After a brilliant summer at home I’m off to Brazil for three weeks – working on a BBC2 Natural World film about Jaguars, and the BBC series ‘How Life Works’. I’m going to back to a couple of locations I spent a long time filming at about 10 years ago so it’s going to be […] Read more »

Here is a nice feature from the Autumn issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine about the making of ‘Empire of the Desert Ants’ The film has had a really great response, 2.3 million viewers and lots of calls to the BBC, I’m still getting e-mails from people who have seen it.     Read more »

My most recent 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »