Specialist in factual and documentary, science and expeditions
sound, AERIAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & photography
Welcome: I specialise in factual, expedition, science and nature films. I’ve been professionally recording sound for over 20 years and creating cinematic aerial drone footage for 10 years. I’m also a passionate, lifelong, documentary photographer who shoots video as well as stills.
WHERE
Countries previously worked in:
Most of Europe, Denmark (inc. drone), Finland (inc. drone), Ireland (inc. drone), Faroe Islands (inc. drone)
Ukraine, Chernobyl, Georgia, Romania,
Canada, US, Bahamas (inc. drone),
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal, Gabon (inc. drone),
Rwanda (inc. drone), Kenya, South Africa, South Sudan, Mozambique
Morocco, Egypt, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Adu Dhabi,
Australia, Java, Guam, East Timor,
Nepal, Maldives, Thailand, Laos,
Belize (inc. drone), Brazil, Argentina, Falkland Islands (inc. drone)
Antarctica (inc. drone), South Georgia (inc. drone), Svalbard (inc. drone), Arctic (inc. drone), Greenland (inc. drone)
& Every Ocean! (inc. drone).
EQUIPMENT
SUA’s (Drones):
DJI Inspire 2, with X7s Camera / filters / full lens kit / Pro Res licence
Mavic 3 Pro, Mavic 3 Cine, Mavic Pro 2 & Mini 3 Pro
STILLS & FILMAKING:
Canon R5, Canon 5D Mk III, Sony A7 RII, variety of film cameras
Wide selection of lenses including Canon, Leica, Sony, Nikon lenses
Ronin R3 gimbal
Ice lights
SOUND:
Full sound rig for recording commercially including Sound Devices 788T 12 track mixer/recorder, stereo rigs and 6 x Audio Ltd A10 recording radio mics and spare kit.
Specialist kit for cold environments.
Showreel
stills photography portfolios
STORIES
Richard La Trobe-Bateman an 87-year-old British designer, talks through the ideas behind The Gap Bridge. An exciting and daring footbridge originally designed the Burning Man arts festival. Drawing on decades of experience and his rebel background, the bridge represents the ultimate design of Richard’s successful career.
A British treasure, global icon, and genuinely wonderful, easy going, fun and funny person. Judi is last to leave a party, tells great stories, and despite challenges with her eyesight - game for pretty much anything. What is not to love? It was a great privilege to spend time with her and to photograph her.
It was an honour to have my film selected for The Drone Awards in the film category at the Siena Awards 2025
In 2017 I started a photography project with designer maker Richard La Trobe-Bateman. He had been commissioned to design a foot-bridge to go into the Nevada desert at the Burning Man festival…
The spread of Eurasian Beavers after a 400-year hiatus in the UK is taking hold. With a small number of officially sanctioned, managed and licenced beavers alongside widespread unofficially released ones.
I’m very proud to have been interviewed for AOP Features. The Association of Photographers has been my go too for photographic practice advice for over 30 years. Click through for the article…
It was great to work with Prof Brian Cox again, I last worked with him on Wonders of the Solar System. This shoot was so fun, full of creative collaborations, and fun evening debates over a glass of wine…
These crabeater Seals were asleep in the broken ice besides our ship 8 weeks into our Expedition.
We were deep in the cold, icy Weddell Sea ‘gyre’, one of the world’s most inaccessible places, and close to where Shackleton’s ship ‘Endurance’, beset…
As part of an ongoing work, and collaboration in East Greenland with the Inuit community - this short film gives a window into a day in the life of Justus, an Inuit hunter from Kulusuk.
In February 2022: Up against so many logistic challenges, Covid, quarantines, the filming kit being bumped from flights - and wind keeping us stuck in the dock at Stanley, in the Falklands:- After a 3 day crossing over the Southern Ocean, we finally made it to King Edward Point in South Georgia, coinciding with the 100 year Anniversary of Shackleton’s death there and we pretty much had the place to ourselves….
It’s an exhilarating experience flying a DJI Inspire 2 drone at night with 2 others doing the same, capturing a swarm of 300 drones during an 8 minute display filled with colour, shape, form and an important message.
The epic story of Victor Vescovo’s mission to be the first person to go to the deepest point in every ocean has been released on Discovery Plus 5 x 45mins. Taking you to each ocean, on an expedition that needed firstly a submersible that could achieve that, that was yet to be invented…
During lockdown I had the time to put in to some of the photography awards. With some successes which was a good pick me up during those unusual times.
If you want to watch the results of all the drone and sound work I did, plus the beautiful camera work of Paul Williams in Antarctica, it has now been released in the UK.
Working on "A Perfect Planet", narrated by Sir David Attenborough and produced by Silverback Films, was a career-defining moment for me. The insight the filming gave me into the work of Sea Shepherd, and the opportunity to contribute to both the film and the accompanying book was incredibly fulfilling and aligned with my passion for wildlife conservation.
Here is the teaser for a documentary I was involved with as the aerial cinematographer and sound recordist during the Antarctic summer of 2019. It’s first airing this Thanksgiving weekend in the USA. I’m so excited it’s going out after all this time, having been delayed by Covid.
The film is presented by Laurence Fishburne…