Tyger Tyger Burning Bright
Tyger Tyger Burning bright in the shadows of the night. William Blake 1794 Whilst the sights of India’s Jungles excite it, is the sounds that never leave you. I had undertaken four trips to India to try to capture a work that in some way told a story about the mystique that surrounds the world’s […]
Letiahau
Nestled in the heart of the Central Kalahari in Botswana is a fossil riverbed known as the Letiahau River, which forms the heart of the territory of the Letiahau Pride. What sets them apart (other than their exceptional good looks) from the many other prides we have worked with across sub-Saharan Africa is that they […]
Carpe Diem
With the coming of the light comes the great predator who, from his dark watery world, knows that the crimson colours heralding the new dawn also herald a time to hunt. On many trips to Seal Island over the years, when scanning the seas whilstwe approached I was often lucky enough to see a massive […]
Call to Earth
Hope … it’s what we all hang onto when times seem desperate. During 2025 we worked with CNN on Rolex’s Call to Earth series that looks to tell inspiring stories relating to our planet and what is being done to save it. For the multi-part segment that looked at the power of photography to inspire, […]
Crystal Under Canvas
Time, Creativity and Boundaries. In that order. That’s what it takes to create an image like this. Firstly, you need time, and plenty of it, to understand light. You need to know where the sun will be at a certain time of year, how it will cast its light on backgrounds, how it will create […]
The Landlord
THE LANDLORD On the ocean floor, I am alone, which is how I like to be when I photograph super predators. I need all my senses to be sharp, with no distractions. Locked, loaded and ready at a moment’s notice to unload its full firepower, the Landlord has arrived: a large great white shark ominously […]
After The Fall, The Rise
Between 1900 and 1999 an estimated 2.9 million whales were killed for commercial purposes and in the late 1930’s, at the peak of industrial whaling, the tragic toll rose to more than 50 000 great whales being silenced per annum. During the 20th century more than 200 000 Humpback whales alone were killed just in the Southern […]
Chris Fallows Newsletter – First Quarter 2022
Close but no Cigar… The last few years have indeed offered me many incredible opportunities to spend time learning about our planet’s iconic species and finding ways in attempting to capture the essence of each. Some expeditions have been fruitful, whilst others have been sparse. This is the nature of the game as my objective […]
March of the Matriarch
In times of drought, danger and difficulty the survival of an elephant herd depends on its leader’s instincts to know whether to fight or flee, run or walk or find those paths invisible to us that lead the herd to water. The Matriarch of a herd is more than a leader; she is a vault […]
A Tail of Two Halves
“Blows …”, came the cry from the top of the mast head as the Donkergat whaleboat’s spotter alerted the harpoon gunner to the family of feeding humpback whales surfacing after a long dive. Fifty-five years later I am back in these self-same waters plied by whalers, where for near on sixty years, a crimson coloured […]