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Cape Crozier from the hill

Stuart2019-04-20T09:09:12-07:00April 20th, 2019|

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Since 1991 Sophie has worked happily as a filmmaker and cinematographer specialising in natural history in remote locations throughout the world from 78 degrees South to 78 degrees North with a lot of Africa in between. Sophie won a BAFTA in 2016 and was accepted as a BAFTA member in 2018.

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When walking through a field of a few 100,000 red When walking through a field of a few 100,000 red crabs, best to go cautiously. We got to film these superb, tenacious wee crustaceans for the weather episode of @silverback_films & @bbcearth #perfectplanet for @edcharles5 @huwcordey with the blooming lovely @amyjthompson @ryanatkinsoncam & Braydon Maloney All episodes streaming now on @bbciplayer @discoveryplus & tonight, Sunday 17th @bbcone 8pm (NB. No crabs were harmed during the making of this sequence - although we did get quite fit raking scores of them off the road to avoid running them over!)
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Crabs are beautiful, curious & had no interest in Crabs are beautiful, curious & had no interest in eating us, even 4kg sleep disrupting robber crabs. Gabbing with @edcharles5 Naga & Charlie on @bbcbreakfast this am about the Christmas Island crab sequence in the #weather episode of @bbcearth & @silverback_films #perfectplanet on @bbcone 2000 this Sunday Naga gave me credit for the footage when actually it was as ever a fantastic team of @ryanatkinsoncam on drone, timelapse & slider, @amyjthompson on lights & editorial not to mention everything in between & then their were the megalops or baby crablets 🦀 filmed by Braydon Maloney, who also assisted Ryan.
Morning stroll #hackney #towpath Morning stroll #hackney #towpath
The saying “a bird in the hand is worth” thing The saying “a bird in the hand is worth” thing doesn’t actually work if you’re a wildlife filmmaker...we’d much rather they were in a bush. This, not so wee, white-tailed Tropicbird ( aka Golden Bosun) fledgling was sitting in the middle of the road on our way home from filming 🦀‘s on Christmas Island. We gave him a lift to the bird sanctuary where he could hang out with all the other, not great at flying, fledglings until they were ready to soar. Tropicbirds are stunning acrobats & so it was surprising how often we’d see these chicks on the road.
Red crabs know where they want to go & nothing, no Red crabs know where they want to go & nothing, not even a grubby pair of trainers, put them off. I have to admit to being totally taken in by their cross wee puckered up faces as well as their tenacity 🦀#perfectplanet Episode 3 #weather streaming now on @bbcearth @discoveryplus or @bbcone Sunday next 8pm
Team Gibbon. From left to right @tomwalkercam @w Team Gibbon. From left to right @tomwalkercam @waldo_etherington @jonnie.hughes @moralcoral for @bbcearth & @silverback_films #perfectplanet episode #thesun
Glorious Gibbons Gibbons use a dramatic form of l Glorious Gibbons Gibbons use a dramatic form of locomotion known as brachiation, which propels them through the canopy at blistering speeds of up to 53 km/h (35 mph) – very difficult to film. To attempt this seemingly impossible task, the team carefully studied the gibbons’ travel corridors and points of interest such as fig trees. Gibbons make a mental map of all fig trees in their territory so know when one will be coming into fruit. This reconnaissance allowed cameraman @tomwalkercam to run like a mad thing through the jungle with a multiplicity of camera systems to let us feel as we are flying with the gibbons through the canopy. Working alongside him was camerawoman Sophie Darlington @sophie_d_wildlife who filmed from high tree platforms rigged by climbing extraordinaire & card wizard @waldo_etherington. The stunning results can be seen this Sunday, the 10th of January at 8:00pm on BBC One in the second episode of #APerfectPlanet ‘The Sun’. Also streaming on @BBCiPlayer. More information on the series: https://www.bbcearth.com/perfect-planet For international dates: Click the link in bio Many thanks to Dr Bach Hai and the Endangered Asian Species Trust whose critical research & conservation work are fighting to save Vietnams last wild spaces ensuring these gibbons have a home for the future. Photos credit: Images by @moralcoral @sophie_d_wildlife @waldo_etherington @jonnie.hughes #bbcearth #PerfectPlanet #APerfectPlanet #naturalhistory #earthlovers #earthonlocation #gibbons #animals #nature #naturelovers #earthscience #wildlife #earthscience @huwcordey @tobynotown @edcharles5 #rainforest @tomwalkercam @filming_planet_earth #davidattenborough
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