With an inbuilt love of animals, I developed an early interest in wildlife photography. After qualifying in zoology I taught the subject at university level for several years.  As a means of taking my interest in wildlife and conservation to a wider audience, in 1961 I experimented with making wildlife films. By 1965, this had become a full-time career which resulted in my involvement in the production of some forty TV programs. 

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Filmmaking tends to be opportunistic, and in1998, I had the good fortune to commence the long-term documentation of a tiger captive breeding program. This was an ideal vehicle to publicise the degree to which wild tigers have become critically endangered and the need to establish a captive gene pool for tiger conservation. My first tiger film, Awesome Pawsome, ran on Animal Planet for a number of years and was the forerunner of several other films on the subject. 

 

My interest in music had also extended my documentaries into areas of the performing arts, particularly in orchestral music. In 2011, I undertook a research project based on the impact of digital technology on filmmaking, with young orchestral musicians as the principal subjects. This project yielded a documentary film and a large library of interviews and the processes of rehearsal and performance of mainly classical orchestral music.      

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I am currently editing a series of extended digital video clips that deal with young musicians, and an overview of  the two basic methods of raising tigers in captivity as a means of saving the species from extinction.  I have also taken up oil painting again in preparation for a retirement that may never happen.