My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal..

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot..

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need..

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all..

Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason..

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the b….

The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit..

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation..

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot..

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all..

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography..

But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex..

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fri….

[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the ….

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear obj….

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation..

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all ….

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madag….

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent..

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife..