Occupation: Writer Birth: January 16, 1912 Death: July 19, 1989
Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot..
I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife..
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….
Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need..
Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason..
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….
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….
I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent..
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..
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation..
The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit..
But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex..
All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography..
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!.
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation..
In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all..
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….
[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 ….
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 ….
I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot..
My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal..