About me - Biography

I am a freelance wildlife cinematographer and in 30 years behind the camera have worked in over 50 countries. Most of my work has been for the BBC’s Natural History Unit on series such as David Attenborough’s Life of Birds and Life of Mammals and many ‘one offs’ for the long running Natural World series on BBC 2. Other programme makers I have worked for include Discovery Channel, ORF (Austria TV), Central TV and the RSPB, where I started my film career back in 1977.

Since boyhood, I have had a passion for the natural world, especially birds. Ringing birds for migration studies was a consuming interest for most of my teenage years before photography began to take over. It wasn’t until 10 years later that I was able to forge a career from the combined passions of wildlife and photography. In the intervening years I worked in various wildlife related jobs, initially ringing oystercatchers as part of a study into their feeding habbits on the cockle beds of South Wales, then developing techniques for the commercial breeding of shellfish at laboratories in North Wales, which gave me a love of the marine environment.

More time is now being devoted to landscape and wildlife photography in the North Wales area, principally on the varied coastline and in the mountains of Snowdonia.