Jeff Wilson / Camera filming Purple Saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) in flower, Svalbard, Spitzbergen, Norwiegan Arctic, July 2009, Taken on location for the BBC series, Frozen Planet.

Tom Clarke / Cameraman in a 'cinebulle' (a hot air balloon adapted for filming) to film the landscape without disturbing the snow, Lapland, Finland for BBC series Planet Earth.

Mike Salisbury / Camerawoman Justine Evans filming presenter Sir David Attenborough in a canopy crane on location for BBC Natural History Unit series 'Life of Birds'. Venezuela, 1997

Frederique Olivier / Camerman Wade Fairley filming colony of Emperor penguins, Antarctica, for BBC Planet Earth series 2005

Neil Lucas / Cameraman Mike Pitts, filming underwater for BBC 'Life' in the Bahamas, Caribbean, July 2007

Neil Lucas / Digital pan head, on a track, for use in timelapse photography.

Neil Lucas / Nikon CD100 camera and digital pan head, on track for use in timelapse photography.

Martin Dohrn / Alex Verner and Clinton Edwards in filming vehicle by moonlight, on location for "Night of the Lion", 2009. Thermal camera technology was used to film lions at night. Can only be used if National Geo...

Martin Dohrn / Martin Dohrn operating camera for filming at night, Masai Mara, Kenya, 2009, Can only be used if National Geographic "Night of the Lion" is mentioned.

Martin Dohrn / Alex Verner in filming vehicle operating thermal cameras, on location for "Night of the Lion", 2009. Can only be used if National Geographic "Night of the Lion" is mentioned

Patrick Morris / Sound recordist Chris Watson with parabolic microphone, Espanola Is, Galapagos

Patrick Morris / Sound recordists Chris Watson and Joe Stevens recording underwater sounds of sealions, Galapagos

Warwick Sloss / Cameraman Warwick Sloss in specially adapted hot air balloon, preparing to film Baobab trees in Morondava, Western Madagascar for BBC series Planet Earth 'Forests'

Warwick Sloss / Cameraman Warwick Sloss in specially adapted hot air balloon, preparing to film Baobab trees in Morondava, Western Madagascar for BBC series Planet Earth 'Forests'

Mark Payne-Gill / Mark Payne Gill on location in the central desert of Oman, filming Fairy shrimps {Triops sp} in a desert lake after heavy rainfall, Jan 1997. For BBC television programme

Martha Holmes / Cameraman Peter Scoones recording Southern elephant seal on location in Stromness Bay, South Georgia, filming for BBC television series "Life in the Freezer", February 1993

Mark Payne-Gill / Camerman Mark Payne Gill on location in Bilad Sayt, Oman, April 1997, filming mountain village for BBC television programme

PETER CRAWFORD / Filming Akivi statues for BBC television programme 'Nomads of the Wind', Easter Island

Nigel Bean / BBC NHU film crew on location for Life of Birds in Bamenda Highlands, North West Province, Cameroon.

Nigel Bean / BBC NHU film crew on location for Life of Birds in Bamenda Highlands, North West Province, Cameroon.

Nigel Bean / BBC NHU film crew on location for Life of Birds in Bamenda Highlands, North West Province, Cameroon.

John Downer / Remote controlled helicopter filming vultures eating

Miles Barton / Filming Japanese cranes (Grus japonensis) Japan for BBC Life of Birds

Rupert Barrington / Cameraman Rod Clarke filming bee-keeper on top of apartment building, Manhattan, New York, for BBC Natural World programme: Metropolis. 1997

Mark Linfield / Cameraman Mike Pitts (r) and producer Mark Linfield (l) in water filming Orang Utan programme 1998

Martha Holmes / Cameraman Doug Allan in kayak filming Humpback whale for BBC television series Blue Planet, Antarctic Peninsula 1999

John Downer / Cameraman Michael Richards with timelapse camera on Lake Bogaria, Kenya, 1994

John Downer / Alan Hayward filming in macro studio for "Galactic Gardens" Bristol Natural History Unit, 1985

Martha Holmes / Paul Atkins filming giant petrel and skua scavenging dead fur seal, Bird Island, South Georgia - for BBC television series Life in the Freezer 1992

JIM CLARE / Climbing Kilimanjaro with filming equipment, Tanzania

Peter Bassett / Film crew camp at Gentoo penguin colony Couveville Island, Antarctic Peninsula. On location for BBC series Life in the Freezer 1991

SIMON KING / Simon King filming red deer from back of buggy. Scotland for BBC programme "Rannoch the Red Deer

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Peter Scoones filming underwater with Betacam SP in Gulf of Aqaba, 1994

Doug Allan / Doug Allan filming under sea ice in Lancaster Sound, Arctic Canada

Rupert Barrington / Camera mounted on car for filming locust outbreak for BBC television series Alien Empire, Ivanhoe, Australia. 1994

Rupert Barrington / Scaffolding to film Eastern tent moth larvae {Malacosoma americanum} in Central Park, New York City

TOM WALMSLEY / Tom Walmsley free diving and filming underwater in Arabian Gulf for Discovery Channel, 1996

Neil Lucas / Film camera mounted on track to capture running water, 1998

SIMON KING / Simon King in Landrover on location filming dingos, Australia.

Ross Couper-Johnston / Cameraman John Waters using piranha fish as bait to attract caiman towards remote controlled camera, filming for "Ibera - Land of Shining Water" a BBC Natural World programme, Argentina 1993

John Downer / Alan Hayward filming in termite chimney with improvised broom cam mount, Kenya, 1990s

SIMON KING / Simon King's camp whilst filming Dingos. Australia.

Rupert Barrington / Filming wasps in New Zealand for BBC television series Alien Empire, Dec 1994

Peter Bassett / Camerman David Shale films honey bee colony wearing protective clothing, Naspur, India.

Neil Lucas / Cameraman Martyn Colbeck filming pitcher plants on Mt Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, for BBC television Natural World programme on Borneo, 1997

John Downer / Cameraman Martin Dohrn filming Jain monk for BBC television series, Lifesense, 1990

Neil Lucas / Camerman Mike Richards attempting to film Blyth's Hawk eagle (Spizaetus alboniger) Jurong Bird Park, Singapore, for BBC film special Eagle, 1996

Anup Shah / Big Cat Diary team film wildebeest crossing Mara River September 1996

Jabruson / Camerman Bruce Davidson filming male silverback gorilla "Rafiki", Virunga NP Dem Rep of Congo,

Doug Allan / Doug Allan with camouflage gear filming seals on Lake Baikal, Siberia, at -20 degrees C.

John Downer / Alan Hayward (right) and Nigel Marven standing in back of a stationary filming car, having a break from filming an imprinted Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) for 'In-Flight Movie', England, UK, 198...

John Downer / Clive Hall preparing glider painted to look like a stork for remote control aerial filming for 'In-Flight Movie', England, UK, 1986

Toby Sinclair / Camerman Mike Herd films Tiger from cage on side of vehicle, Madhya Pradesh, India

Keith Scholey / David Attenborough with sound recordist on location in Kenya, standing near elephant herd, about to do a piece to camera

Michael Pitts / Filming Iguana for BBC NHU television series 'Wild Caribbean'. Producer Scott Alexander with assistant Carlos and Jimmy Jib, Panama 2005

HUW CORDEY / People standing at top of sand dune, filming across Gobi Desert in winter with snow, Mongolia, for BBC Planet Earth series, January 2004.

BBC / Dr. Jack Cohen, evolutionary biologist (Natural History of an Alien)

BBC / Kwank, from Greenworld (Natural History of an Alien)

Phil Chapman / Cameraman Mike Pitts filming white tern on Henderson Island for BBC television series 'Nomads of the Wind'.

Martin Dohrn / Antcam used to film 'Killer Ants' for television, Tanzania, East Africa 2002

SIMON KING / Simon King filming Red deer {Cervus elaphus} from back of buggy, Scotland, for BBC programme "Rannoch the Red Deer"

Sue Flood / Ian McCarthy in hide used to film waders on the Wash in BBC television programme "Being There - Estuaries", 1996

ANDREW ANDERSON / Camerman Andrew Anderson on location in Arizona, filming a rattlesnake for BBC series "Predators", 2000

Phil Chapman / Cameraman Mike Pitts filming Coconut Crab {Birgus latro} on Henderson Island for BBC television series "Nomads of the Wind", 1992

SIMON KING / Simon King filming in a quarry for BBC programme, England, UK

Toby Sinclair / Camerman Colin Stafford-Johnson on location in Rathambhore NP, Rajasthan, India, filming tigers for BBC series, 2001/2003

Adam White / Camerman Gavin Thurston filming Coco de Mer catkins. Mahe, Seychelles Botanical gardens

Michael Pitts / Camerman Michael Pitts with Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) filming on location at Chagres river, Panama, filming for BBC television series 'Trials of Life', 1991/1992

Nigel Marven / Cameraman Gavin Thurston on location in Iran, filming for BBC television series "Nature of Iran", 1996

Doug Allan / Andrew Taqtu Inuit field assistant with remote camera Canadian arctic Lancaster sound

Adam White / Camerman Barrie Britton with Whooper swan. On location for BBC Life of Birds 1996