Polar

In 2011 I was on the Wildlife Photographer of the Year adjudication panel and met Mark Carwardine, who was the Chair. Mark and I have been friends ever since and it’s down to Mark that for the last decade and more I have usually, once a year, been onboard ship to the polar regions. Mark is the headline act, and I am there to provide a little landscape expertise for those onboard whose interests extend beyond wildlife. I have also co-led in parts of the Arctic with David Ward, Daniel Bergman, Tony Spencer and the late Trym Ivar Bergsmo. These journeys have been hugely important to my sense of environmental interconnectedness, as well as being an opportunity to see and photograph some of the most spectacular and remote wildernesses on the planet. My son Sam has a PhD in Arctic geophysics, which means regular discussions about the accelerating effects of climate change in these unique ecosystems.

Antarctica Moonrise