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 [...]

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 [...]