Day 4 – Getting my Bearings
Only a quick post today because I’ve not really done much. To sum it up (an aide memoire for me really): Woke up to the sound of concrete being mixed and tiles laid. Walk round Big Mosque Coffee/Chat with Abdellah and student friend “Seymour” Mint tea with Barbara Back to rescue boots drying on the [...]
Day 3 – Introduction to the Macaques
06:00 Alarm. I snoozed for a few minutes then got in the (cold) shower. I heard a knock at the door and was surprised to see Sandra asking if I’m ready to go. I said that I’d be 5 minutes. My watch said it was 06:22. We’d agreed to meet at 07:00. Nevertheless I headed [...]
Day 2 – Marrakech to Azrou
At 05:55 my alarm goes off and much to my surprise I wake up. I shower and wonder whether the early breakfast that I had requested had been prepared. It hadn’t, so I slipped out of the Riad and into a petit taxi direct to the CTM bus station. I checked my bags in at [...]
Day 1 – Manchester to Marrakech
At 03:45 my alarm went off waking me only 4 hours after I’d gone to bed. The previous day had seen me work my way through a very long to do list. The final task on the list was to pack the large amount of filming equipment and enough clothes for a month of filming. [...]
The Ultimate Wildlife Filmmaker’s DSLR Camera?
Today Canon have announced a whole host of goodies including: updates to two lenses, the 500mm f4 and the 600mm f4 (press release here) a brand new 200-400mm f4 lens with a built in 1.4x extender giving it an effective range of 200-560mm (here) BUT although I’m sure these will end up in a wildlife [...]
Welcome
Hello and welcome to my new website. I’m trying to get to grips with wordpress at the moment; Stuff will be added as and when I learn how to do it! This is a bit of a test to see how I include images in my posts, so here’s some eye-candy for you! The first [...]