Capturing Nature’s Majesty: jjwilsonphoto
The Journey of Jeff Wilson
I grew up around the big cats of East Africa, and had already spent time filming Pumas in Chile and Snow Leopards in Pakistan, but nothing, nothing prepares you for your first tiger sighting. They are so much bigger than the biggest lion, so striking, and Kahna has to be one of the most enigmatic places to see them.
2005-2007
Snow Leopard Spotters
All wildlife filming involves sitting, waiting, watching. But there are few shoots that require more of this triumvirate than filming snow leopards. Between 2005-2007 a team of us searched and sat, sat and waited, waited and watched for what amounted to about 30 hours in the presence of a snow leopard.
2009
Gerlache Strait
I was fortunate to be invited aboard HMS Endurance for one of their work periods on the Antarctic Peninsula in 2009. It was my first time in Antarctica, and you couldn’t better having a large navy vessel and two lynx helicopters as your tour guides.
BBC / Animal Planet
Documentary Success
The subsequent footage was described by David Attenborough as the “some of the best he has ever seen”. We made an hour long documentary of the experience for the BBC / Animal Planet won best of festival at Missoula International Film Festival.
Explore the World Through Lens
Adelie Penguin, Ross Sea, Antarctica Adelie Penguins are the only animal I have ever come across who are the polar opposite of their anthropomorphized character.