Photography

End of the Road

Human Planet

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases

After a year and a half of non-stop traveling with Human Planet, it appears that for me this particular journey is now over.

It’s been an amazing experience and one that has brought me into contact with our incredibly diverse species across almost every inhabitable environment on the planet. I’m sure you won’t be too surprised to learn that I can report back that human beings are the same the world over… individuals dealing with their own versions of personal struggles to secure food, find a mate, put a roof over their heads and protect their offspring. I’m also sure that you won’t be too shocked to discover that no matter where I went in the world, doors were opened to me, food was shared with me, knowledge was exchanged freely and help was offered unconditionally.

I’ve really enjoyed blogging about my experiences… so much so in fact that I have decided to continue doing it on my own website. So, if you would like to carry on following my travels and read about the other work I do outside of the BBC, then please click HERE, or alternatively you can join me on Facebook.

In the meantime, I will leave you with my personal Top 40 roundup of favourite photos from my Human Planet journey to remind you of some of the amazing stories that will be appearing on the programme when it hits your screens in January 2011.

Enjoy!

Bajau village, Tun Sakaran Marine Park, Sabah Malaysia

Huli Tribe, Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Pa-aling fishermen, South China Sea, Philippines

Wodaabe women with tattooed faces, Lake Chad area, Niger, Africa

Fisherman with catch, Mekong River, Laos

Illulisat, Greenland

Central Highlands, PNG

Whale hunters, Lembata, Indonesia

Honey gatherer, Central African Republic

The urban jungle, Jaipur, Rajastan, India

Eagle hunter, Altai Mountains, Western Mongolia

Courtship ritual, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Sulphur miners, Mount Ijen, West Java, Indonesia

Re-plastering the central mosque, Djenne, Mali

Bajau breath diver with rock and spear gun, walking along the sea bottom, Sabah, Malaysia

A remote camp, Simien Mountains, Ehiopia

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Gerewol, Niger, Africa

A nomadic family moving to their winter camp, Mongolia

Stick fighters, Southern Ethiopia

Camel herders, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Guarding crops, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia

Making a living on Mombassa's waste dump, Kenya

Bajau sea gypsy girl on her family boat, Sabah, Malaysia

Double rainbow all the way, Central Mongolia

Skin diving, Tun Sakaran Marine Park, Sabah Malaysia

Mother and child in a cave, Zanskar, Ladakh, Indian Himalayas

Donga - a Suri stick fight gathering, Ethiopia

Eagle Hunter, Altai Mountains, Mongolia

Pa-aling diver loses his air tube at depth, Philippines

Honey gatherer smoking out bees nest, Central African Republic

Families walking to Leh for 5 days down the frozen Zanskar River, Ladakh, India

Botos, freshwater dolphin in the murky depths of the Rio Negro, Brazil

Kids playing Tetris in their ger, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Living root bridge, Wahthyllong, East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India

Children barbecuing Goliath Tarantula Spiders, Venezuela

Herding the family livestock, Mongolia

Young boy asleep on a rubbish dump, Mombassa, Kenya

The leather Tannery, Fez, Morocco

The majestic Golden Eagle, Altai Mountains, Mongolia

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This will be my last post on this blog. For those of you who would like to continue following my work on my new blog, please click HERE. planeta humano

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A Year on the Road

Singapore

Two weeks into 2010 and I am back from my one month break over the holiday season. As is the tradition for photographers around this time of year, I have put together a small portfolio of previously unseen pictures from 2009… one from each Human Planet shoot last year.

Yesterday I left my home town of Bristol deep in snow. Today, I am filing this post from a hot and humid Changi airport in Singapore on a stop over with the mountains team on our way to the highlands of North Eastern Papua New Guinea where we will be shooting for the next 2 weeks. Right now, I am also pleased to say that we have British photojournalist Kieran Doherty shooting a high rise story for us in UAE’s capital Dubai with the urban team and he’ll be posting a blog in due course.

Happy New Year to you where ever you are in the world and I hope you enjoy this selection of pictures from a year of travel in 2009.

Looking for a fight in Southern Ethiopia

Dangling from ropes in Galicia

Watching the sun set in the Simien Mountains

Dressing up in Niger

Waiting for the Moon to set in Greenland

Nitpicking in the Central African Republic

Braving a sand storm in Mali

Camel herding in the Gobi Desert

Net fishing in Brazil

Plastering in Djenne

Afternoon napping in Dogon Country

Moving house in Mongolia

Casting a net in Laos

Dancing in Papua New Guinea

Trading snakes in Cambodia

Meditating in Angkor

Messing around in Indonesia

Island hopping in Sabah

Scavenging in Kenya

Reindeer herding in Norway

Deep sea diving in the Philippines

Fox hunting in Mongolia