Short films for May 2025 featuring Dorset wildlife for BBC2’s annual exploration and celebration of springtime.
Forthcoming BBC landmark series featuring a tropical forest sequence filmed in Bhutan and produced by Silverback Films.
The miraculous spring lifecycle of a marsh fritillary butterfly, from caterpillar to adult.
Blue chip behavioural sequence for this major forthcoming series by The BBC’s Natural History Unit.
Short film featuring the extraordinary spring life cycle of the stunning 5-spot burnet moth.
Tropical river sequence recurring throughout the orangutan episode, featuring a saltwater crocodile and a group of proboscis monkeys who have to cross the waterway where the giant croc patrols. Released in 2023 on Apple TV
National Geographic series by Plimsoll Productions featuring extraordinary wildlife abilities: The Mating Game episode final sequence about communication between a pair of gibbons in a dense tropical forest. Eat Or Be Eaten episode with a sequence about starling group synchronisation to escape a peregrine falcon. Released September 2022
National Geographic / Supernatural / The Mating Game / gibbons - Jackson Wild Winner 2023
National Geographic / Supernatural / Eat or Be Eaten / peregrine-starlings
Short film featuring the jewel-like Adonis blue and green hairstreak butterflies on a chalk downland in Dorset.
Netflix series by Plimsoll Productions exploring the quintessentials of various animal families: Apes episode sequence reveals the real nature of a spectacular and charming family of gibbons in a Thai forest. Released 2021
Netflix / Animal / Apes / gibbons
Over 100 x 10 minute wildlife films in this popular BBC1 magazine series between 2001-2020, for BBC South West, BBC West, BBC South, BBC North West and BBC London, attracting more viewers than Panorama. I filmed stories featuring wild boar, seals, orchids, egrets, bats, beavers, beach plastic and many other issues.Sadly Inside Out has just been axed in BBC cuts, leaving programming for 6 ‘super regions’ and less likelihood of a story about your area.
A dawn chorus of gibbons heralds a new day. Plimsoll Productions for Netflix. 2019
Demoiselle damselfly sequence for this polychromatic BBC / Netflix series made by Humblebee. 2019
Director of Photography for Channel 4’s popular factual series about the animals of Chester Zoo, from blue morpho butterflies to elephants. Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
The world’s biggest parliament of owls in a Serbian square. BBC2. Jan 2019 (filmed 2015)
Wildlife sequences for 7 of the 8 episodes in this UK wildlife series for Channel 5, featuring golden eagles and goshawks hunting, a fallow deer rut, red squirrels burying nuts and a wingless wasp preying on a tiger beetle larva. 2018
Wildlife sequences for several episodes of this BBC2 series revealing the surprising wildlife of the West of England. 2017
Documenting the world’s most ambitious mammal reintroduction – the return of the mythical scimitar-horned oryx to the Sahel region of Chad by Abu Dhabi’s Environment Agency, with The Sahara Conservation Fund, The Smithsonian Institute, London’s ZSL and other organisations. Film made by ImageNation. 2017
Wildlife friendly gardening special with Patrick Aryee for Sky. 2016
Wildlife, people and drone work for this ITV series about the summer staycation madness faced by Devon and Cornwall Police. 2016
Filming a wildlife garden in Devon for this popular evergreen BBC2 series. 2016
Silverback Films for BBC1. May-Jun 2015
BBC2. Yew wood insert film. Jan 2015
For Key Point Production, Shanghai. Nov 2014
Maramedia for BBC2. Filming ospreys at the nest. 2014
BBC2. Filming honey bees and other pollinators. 2014
DVD series for The British Wildlife Centre. Children’s DVD for sale online and at BWC. 2013-2014
BBC1 four part series revealing seasonal stories over the course of a British year, using time-lapse, time-study, macro and other specialist camera techniques. 2013
BBC1 series examining the UK's spectacular wildlife success stories of recent years and looking at key areas of conservation concern. 2013
BBC1 Urban wildlife series made by English regions and shown across the network on BBC2. 2013
1hr for BBC4 made by BBC Scotland. Presenter Richard Fortey examines the evolutionary adaptations that allow creatures to live in one of the most changeable and hostile environments of them all… the rocky sea shore. 2013
Short films for the popular BBC1 show, featuring a hoopoe in Dorset, black water voles in the Scottish Highlands and deep sea coral reefs of the Outer Hebrides. 2012-2014
(ARD/WDT) – Der Vogelmann Von London: 1hr for German television showcasing the movement started by “Urban Birder” David Lindo to galvanise interest in the fascinating and beautiful wildlife of urban places. 2012
Chris Packham series examining the state of our countryside. Chris asks if we are making the right conservation decisions to best preserve our natural heritage. (Woodland and Farmland episodes). Summer 2011
Wildlife camerawork at Selborne, Hampstead Heath and at Portland Bill for this Springwatch special. 2011
An intimate encounter with some of the mysterious and exotic creatures of the rainforest's upper canopy South of The Orinoco delta in Venezuela. We follow a harpy eagle, wedge capped capuchin monkeys and black-necked aracary toucans, living around a vast and beautiful kapok tree. 2010
No other nation has been quite so captivated with the winged jewels that flutter over their flowers in Summer. This film is a visual feast of UK butterflies and some of the remarkable people whose lives are dedicated to them. 2010
Long lens photography of migrating birds, red deer rutting, garden and other Autumnal wildlife with Chris and Kate for BBC2's seasonal wildlife feast. 2010
Wildlife camerawork for Simon King's broadcasts from Dorset, featuring a roe deer family, raft spider cannibalism, foxes hunting moths, hobbies catching dragonflies, buzzards hunting worms, Dorset reptiles, nightjars displaying, wood ants, strandline wildlife and much more. 2010
Principal cameraman for this 50 minute BBC2 film featuring white-tailed eagles, black-throated divers, red deer and a remarkable Scottish wilderness. 2009
Wildlife and sync for Greenland white-fronted geese and the story of the Wexford Cott, in South East Ireland. 2009
Numerous wildlife items for this popular BBC1 magazine series. 2008-2009
Alien lizards, bats, invertebrates, wading birds and orchard wildlife for the BBC2 seasonal wildlife show. 2008 and 2009
Otters, birds, insects and other wildlife, for HTV’s wildlife and gardening show. 2008
Principal wildlife cameraman for this 10 x 30 minutes BBC2 wildlife series on the UK's top wildlife spectacles. 2008
Landmark BBC1 wildlife series: Farmland, Woodland and Wilderness programmes. 2007
Primate Planet Productions' diary of life at Monkey World, for Channel 5. 2007
For London, East, South, South West, South East, West, North, North East, North West. BBC1. 2007
2 x 50 minutes on the future and history of conservation and 6 x 50 minutes showcasing the regional opts. BBC4. 2007
50 minutes HD documentary by Pyramedia, about the return of the mythical oryx to the Arabian Desert, UAE. 2007
Principal wildlife cameraman for this 40 x 30 minutes BBC2 wildlife series. 2006
Principal wildlife cameraman for this 10 x 30 minutes BBC2 wildlife series. 2005
High tide wildlife story on the Dee Estuary for this popular BBC2 series. 2005
David Attenborough. Various macro sequences for this BBC invertebrate blockbuster: tiger beetle parasitised by parasitoid wasp, hoverflies egg laying over dung. 2005
Fox photography used for Charlie Hamilton-James' film. 2005
Alan Titchmarsh. Regional wildlife inserts with Chris Packham for this popular BBC series. 2005
Various bird sequences for the RSPB's award winning Film Unit. 2005
A 10 minute film for The Hampshire Environment Agency Fisheries Department and several short films for different departments of the RSPB. 2003-2005
A short time-lapse film made by me in association with Rustic Films, entered at the Tromanale Film Festival, Berlin. 2003
BBC1 and ITV national and regional news items. Occasionally other news stories. 2001-2003
C4, interviews for Arctic exploration documentary. 2002
Gabriel Films for Discovery Health UK and PBS, principal cameraman – locations, labs and interviews. 2001
Time-lapse and slow-mo camerawork for this BBC2 film. 2001
BBC2 Southern Eye, principal cameraman for a half hour documentary following a heavy horse race carrying fish across France!. 2000
Popular homebuilding series for HTV. 2000
Natural History New Zealand, golden eagle photography. 1999
BBC2, UK wildlife sequences: song thrush in churchyard, chaffinch nesting in may blossom, rooks. 1999
Beeley Productions for National Geographic, peregrine falcon photography. 1998
Mandalay Media Arts for PBS. Shot on super 35mm for HD broadcast. Started as an assistant, ended the production as a cameraman. 1997
Additional photography while working as camera assistant to Richard Kemp. 1995
