CNN, Call to Earth
My objectives resulting from a life spent working with and trying to artistically photograph our planet’s most iconic species are twofold. Firstly, I have endeavoured to create a unique portfolio of limited-edition photographs that artistically celebrate our planet’s most iconic wildlife. The sale of these works allows Monique and I to achieve our personal objective […]
Jaws 50 Years On
This month the 50-year release of the epic film ‘JAWS’ will be widely celebrated. It was a film that undoubtedly catapulted the Great White Shark to become arguably the most famous super predator on the planet. In 1999 I worked with Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, for a National Geographic special on the 25th […]
A life seen through two different lenses
I was recently asked in an interview for Canon, am I first and foremost a photographer? Or wildlife lover? My answer was, I started out being and am still a devoted naturalist! Photography has thus been my medium of creative expression to showcase my passion for the natural world, and hopefully in some way, do […]
Cleopatra, A Killer of Whales
Whilst my artistic genre is fine art photography, first and foremost I am a naturalist with a very deep connection to my subjects and their behavior, which then shapes how I creatively portray them. As a naturalist the field is your office and be it the ocean or earth, you crave being in the wild. […]
Musk Oxen – Norway
Leaving the orcas behind, we headed for the mountains in search of a rather interesting creature that looks as at home in the mountains today as it did alongside mammoths during the ice age. This would be the luxuriant Musk Ox. Confused between being a cow in a hula skirt, or a luxuriant toupee with […]
Orcas in Norway
Orcas are arguably the smartest, most specialised and widely distributed super predator in the oceans of the world. Having seen orcas in most oceans, Monique and I had wanted to experience and photograph the herring-hunting orcas in Norway for many years, but for one reason or another we just never got there. This October the […]
The Great White Place
There must be a touch of irony in the fact that after more than thirty years of working with Great White Sharks, one of my favorite photographic locations on land is known in the Oshindonga language as The Great White Place or Etosha. My parents first took me to Etosha in 1976 when I was […]
100 DAYS OF SENTIENCE – MARCH AND APRIL 2024
Day 62/100 Peace on Pastel If you’ve never been at water level next to a humpback whale slipping beneath the waves, it goes something like this … A deep resonant draw of breath, an inhalation of air. A little lift of its head, then a sinuous pulse of energy down it’ spine. Bending, then arching, […]
100 DAYS OF SENTIENCE – FEBRUARY 2024
Day 32/100 Infinsea This teenage humpback’s tail fin artistically etches itself against a foggy Atlantic morning off the coast of Cape Town. Known to Happy Whale as HW-MN0800700. There have been two encounters with this whale off the South African coastline: The Cape Point encounter was within a Supergroup where Alex Vogel and team managed […]
100 Days of Sentience – January 2024
Day 1/100 A Breath of Fresh Air Just as the great equatorial forests are the lungs of Planet Earth, sequestering carbon and producing oxygen, so too are the microscopic creatures called phytoplankton, the marine equivalent. They however, repeat this process on an even greater scale just under the ocean’s surface. The whale’s poop is a […]