After 4 days of set construction and camera rehearsals, we were getting closer to the shoot day. I had been commissioned to direct a television commercial for a leading underarm deodorant client. The basic scenario was: A Tarzan-like character swings through the dense foliage of the African jungle, his cry reverberating across the valleys. He [...]

Most people have a pretty good idea on how they would like to die.
If you had the CNN news team at your disposal and you conducted street or door to door interviews you would probably come up with some interesting opinions. I think most people would want to die with their loved ones at their [...]

If you think about it there are a lot of things you can do if you only have one arm. You can pick your nose successfully, you can punch someone just as long as they drop and stay down. If they get up you can hail a cab with one hand and get the hell [...]

As I’ve discussed on previous blogs so many things come into play when trying to get the perfect picture. Your approach to each picture is never the same for a very simple reason – taking a picture is a ‘living thing’ it’s an emotion, technique, gut feel, knowledge, commitment and most of all passion. In [...]

I woke up in the middle of a gun battle last night, my lounge was filled with screaming and yelping Apache Indians, burning arrows swished above my head and twanged into the furniture around me. I was terrified as I tried to figure out what was happening through the smoke and fire. I got a [...]

If you’ve ever traveled through Mozambique you will know exactly what I feel.
Miles of white beaches unroll like a giant carpet ahead of our bus as we travel north through the tropical Inhambane province across the most beautiful part of the world.
I have made the trip to Vilanculos on many of our African Wild Adventures [...]

You have to admit there are so many hang-ups about having great sex. For women so many things come into play – your upbringing, religious beliefs, the ex-husband, the children, what will people think, what if someone saw us, we’re committing a sin – all these and a whole stack more interfere with keeping the [...]

Have you ever wondered how press photographers and television news reporters get those amazing action shots in hectic and often life threatening situations?
Often press reporters are killed in war zones around the world and you’re not surprised when in the middle of shoot out between the good guys and the bad guys a cameraman [...]

You have to understand something when taking pictures of wild animals, they never sit still unless they’re stuffed in a museum and we don’t want to go down that road. Wild animals are naturally nervous, highly strung, twitchy, unpredictable and permanently in survival mode.
There is no such thing as ‘chilling out’ for a wild animal [...]

I guess about five years ago a whole bunch of people at NASA (short for Never Ask Someone Anything) decided to take a strange looking radio controlled children’s toy they’d invented down to the local school as an experiment to attract, and test the abilities of children suffering from the ‘short attention span’ syndrome common [...]