Doug is an award winning stills photographer as well as being a film maker. He's been giving talks for many years on wildlife, diving, his experiences while film making and the craft of nature photography. The four talks below give you an idea of the scope of his presentations, though he's happy to customise these so they're suitable for any audience of any age. All are lavishly illustrated with slides that he's taken during his travels. Each talk normally lasts 1 hour to 90 minutes, fees are negotiable.
Doug takes his audience to the two frozen polar worlds - the Arctic and the Antarctic. Glorious pictures of the wildlife, polar bears, penguins and all the seals, the scenery and the people, with insights into how Doug prepares and copes with the short term of a six week film shoot at minus 30°C in search of polar bears. And quite different thoughts on survival of another kind during his two and a half year stint as a biologist on a British Antarctic Survey's scientific research station.
Underwater CameraExperience life on a coral reef in the Red Sea, under the ice with seals in Canada, and looking for belugas and narwhals with the Inuit at the floe edge. Nose to nose with mating right whales in Patagonia gives you a chance to rewarm before heading to Antarctica to discover the remarkably rich undersea life there. "Life in the Freezer" was the first programme to try to film leopard seals hunting penguins - this show will tell you how that sequence was done. There are also stories from "The Blue Planet".
Wild Images Experience life on a coral reef in the Red Sea, under the ice with seals in Canada, and looking for belugas and narwhals with the Inuit at the floe edge. Nose to nose with mating right whales in Patagonia gives you a chance to rewarm before heading to Antarctica to discover the remarkably rich undersea life there. "Life in the Freezer" was the first programme to try to film leopard seals hunting penguins - this show will tell you how that sequence was done. There are also stories from "The Blue Planet".
The Making of The Blue PlanetDoug takes you behind the scenes to tell many of the stories that happened during the filming of this ground breaking BBC series. Five years in the making, costing over $10 million, the most ambitious series ever attempted. Doug describes how for the first time ever, they filmed killer whales attacking a grey whale calf off California, a polar bear trying to catch belugas in a freezing ice hole, or emperor penguins underwater. From Alaska to the Antarctic, Galapagos to Greenland, this talk is full of insights and wonderful images.
The Making of The Blue PlanetMore behind the scenes pictures and revealing accounts of just what it took to film for this latest BBC / Discovery blockbuster. Up close and personal with polar bears and humpback whales.
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