Chadden Hunter / Filming on the Antarctic sea-ice at the edge of a small hole. A cameraman gets a shock when a Killer whale (Orcinus orca) mother and calf explode out of the water in front of his face. Taken on locat...

Kathryn Jeffs / Dr Robert (Bob) Pitman and Dr John Durban, scientific advisors, watching for Killer whales (Orcinus orca) on board the 'Golden Fleece', off Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, January 2009, Taken on loca...

Kathryn Jeffs / Filming Southern Type B Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, January 2009

Jeff Wilson / Frozen planet team clothes and equipment ready for Antarctica expedition to Ross Sea, in National Science Foundation hanger, Christchurch, New Zealand, October 2009. Taken on location for BBC series,...

Patrick Morris / Cameraman Paul Stewart filming pair of Waved albatross {Phoebastria irrorata} Espanola Is, Galapagos

John Downer / Remote camera in protective housing and bait used to film wild lion close up for BBC television series 'Lifesense'

Felicity Lanchester / Jib arm with attached camera ready to film an approaching grassland fire for the BBC series 'Africa', South Luangwa National Park, Zambia, July 2011.

Felicity Lanchester / BBC cameramen Justin Maguire and Norbert Rottcher filming flowers using a camera track system for the BBC 'Africa' series, Kitulo Plateau National Park, Tanzania, February 2009.

Felicity Lanchester / Cameraman Rod Clarke filming flowers for the Kalahari episode of the BBC series 'Africa', Namaqualand, South Africa, August 2012.

John Downer / Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) group resting in the shade, filmed by domesticated Asian elephant (Elephas maximas) holding 'Trunk cam' camera and with film-makers riding on its back. Pench Nati...

John Downer / Log cam - camouflaged camera used for filming Bengal Tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle' March 2007

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' remote camera mounted onto domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle'...

John Downer / 'Iceberg cam' remote camera used for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / 'Iceberg cam' remote camera used for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking along ice with 'Iceberg cam' remote camera filming, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / 'Trunk cam' remote camera held in the trunk of domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film Bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the...

John Downer / 'Trunk cam' remote camera held in the trunk of domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film Bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the...

John Downer / 'Trunk cam' remote camera held in the trunk of domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the...

John Downer / 'Trunk cam' remote camera held in the trunk of domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the...

John Downer / Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) resting, filmed by 'log-cam' remote camera controlled from domesticated Asian Elephant (Elephas maximas) Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on lo...

John Downer / Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) resting, filmed by 'log-cam' remote camera controlled from domesticated Asian Elephant (Elephas maximas) Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on lo...

John Downer / Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) filmed by 'log cam' remote camera, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle' 2007

John Downer / Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) sleeping, filmed by 'Log cam' remote camera, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle' 2007

John Downer / Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) resting, filmed by 'Log cam' remote camera, with domesticated Indian elephant (Elephas maximas) in the fore-ground, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, t...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' camera mounted onto domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film Bengal tigers, riden by film makers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy...

John Downer / Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) juvenile female resting with 'log cam' a remote camera in the foreground filming, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy i...

John Downer / Film crew operating 'Iceberg cam' remote camera for filming polar bears. Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Iceberg cam - remote camera used for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) investigating 'Snowball cam' a remote camera used for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) investigating 'Snowball cam' a remote camera used for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) investigating 'Snowball cam' a remote camera used for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) investigating 'Snowball cam' a remote camera used for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / 'Blizzard cam' and 'Snowball cam' remote cameras designed for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) investigating 'Blizzard cam' remote camera for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) investigating 'Blizzard cam' remote camera used for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) investigating 'blizzard cam', remote camera used for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) investigating 'Blizzard cam', used to film polar bears remotely, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) investigating 'Blizzard cam' used for remote filming, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) investigating 'Blizzard cam' remote camera for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / 'Blizzard cam' a remote camera for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / 'Iceberg cam' remote camera used for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) sleeping whilst filmed by 'Iceberg cam' Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) investigating 'iceberg cam' remote camera for filming polar bears, Svalbard, Norway, taken on location for 'Polar Bear : Spy on the Ice' August 2010

John Downer / Wildlife cameraman riding on the back of Indian elephant (Elephas maximas), Pench NP, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle'. December 2006

John Downer / Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) family resting, whilst approached by domesticated elephant (Elephas maximas) with 'Tusk Cam' filming camera, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on...

John Downer / Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) mother and cubs resting, whilst approached by domesticated elephant (Elephas maximas) with 'Tusk Cam' for filming, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, tak...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' camera mounted onto domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle' Decembe...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' camera mounted onto domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle' Decembe...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' camera mounted onto domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle'. Decemb...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' camera mounted onto domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle'. Decem...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' camera mounted onto domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle'. Decemb...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' camera mounted onto domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle' Decembe...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' camera mounted onto domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle' Decembe...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' camera mounted onto domesticated elephant (Elephas maximus) tusk to film Bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle' Decembe...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' camera that is mounted onto domesticated elephant tusk to film bengal tigers, with designer Geoff Bell, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' film camera that is mounted onto domesticated elephant tusk to film bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle' December 200...

John Downer / 'Tusk cam' camera that is mounted onto domesticated elephant tusk to film Bengal tigers, Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, taken on location for 'Tiger - Spy in the Jungle' December 2006

John Downer / Lion (Panthera Leo) sitting in front of 'Bouldercam' remote camera, Masai Mara, Kenya, Africa. Taken on location for 'Pride' tv series.

John Downer / Lion and lioness (Panthera Leo) filmed by 'Bouldercam' remote camera. Masai Mara, Kenya, Africa. Taken on location for 'Pride' tv series.

Martin Dohrn / Gavin Thurston and Howard Bourne, filming Harvester ants in Arizona, with 'Frankencam', specialised camera equipement for filming ants.

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / 2020VISION team videographer, Raymond Besant, filming underwater with an improvised pole-cam, while 2020VISION team photographer Chris Gomersall looks on. Cairns of Coll, Island of Coll, Inner Hebride...

Chadden Hunter / Cameraman, Didier Noirot, filming the formation of 'brinicles' (brine icicles or ice stalactites) under the ice, Ross Sea, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Taken on location during the filming of 'Winter' f...

John Downer / Cameraman Alan Hayward filming imprinted Feral pigeon / Rock dove (Columba livia) from a moving car as it drives along a beach for 'In-Flight Movie', UK, 1986

John Downer / Alan Hayward filming imprinted Greylag geese (Anser anser) from a moving car for 'In-Flight Movie', UK, 1986

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

Chadden Hunter / Filming around the extremely delicate ice formations in volcanic ice cave, Mount Erebus, Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, 2009

Chadden Hunter / Entering the ice caves of Mount Erebus, Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, 2009

Chadden Hunter / Cameraman Gavin Thurston filming ice crystals under volcanic ice cave, Mount Erebus, Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, 2009

Chadden Hunter / BBC filming team used the willow scrub as a blind, using sign language so as not to spook either Bison (Bison bison) or Timber wolves (Canis lupus) they were trying to film. The snowmobiles were aban...

Chadden Hunter / Getting snow off snowmobiles after successful filming of Timber wolves hunting bison, Arctic circle in northern Canada. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, 2009

Chadden Hunter / Cameraman Martyn Colbeck filming King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) chick creche / breeding colony, South Georgia. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, 2008

Chadden Hunter / Cameraman Martyn Colbeck filming King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on beach, South Georgia, South Atlantic Islands. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, 2008

Kathryn Jeffs / Wildlife Cameraman, John Aitchison, on location, filming Adelie penguins, Antarctica, February 2009, Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series

Kathryn Jeffs / Wildlife Cameraman, John Aitchison, on location, Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet, February 2009

Kathryn Jeffs / Cameraman, Doug Allan, fixing stabilised high definition film camera on the 'Golden Fleece' (base ship of the BBC film crew) as it passes along the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, January 2009, Take...

Kathryn Jeffs / Dion Poncet, John Durban, Bob Pitman, attempting to tag matriarch Southern Type B Killer whale (Orcinus orca) in Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, January 2009, Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet...

Kathryn Jeffs / Dr Robert (Bob) Pitman, from US National Marine Fisheries Service, scientific advisor, relaxing on board the 'Golden Fleece' prior to searching for whales, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, January 200...

Kathryn Jeffs / Dr Robert (Bob) Pitman, from US National Marine Fisheries Service, scientific advisor, relaxing on board the 'Golden Fleece' prior to searching for whales, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, January 200...

Kathryn Jeffs / Dr Robert (Bob) Pitman, from US National Marine Fisheries Service, scientific advisor, relaxing on board the 'Golden Fleece' prior to searching for whales, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, January 200...

Kathryn Jeffs / Dr Robert (Bob) Pitman, from US National Marine Fisheries Service, scientific advisor, relaxing on board the 'Golden Fleece' prior to searching for whales, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, January 200...

Kathryn Jeffs / Dr John Durban, scientific advisor from US National Marine Fisheries Service, Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, January 2009

Kathryn Jeffs / Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan alongside Dr John Durban and Dr Robert (Bob) Pitman, scientific advisors on series, Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, January 2009

Kathryn Jeffs / Dr Robert (Bob) Pitman, from US National Marine Fisheries Service, scientific advisor, relaxing on board The Golden Fleece prior to searching for whales, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, January 2009,...

Kathryn Jeffs / Filming Southern Type B Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, January 2009

Kathryn Jeffs / Filming Southern Type B Killer whales (Orcinus orca) Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, January 2009

Kathryn Jeffs / Doug Allan, cameraman, looking for Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, January 2009

Kathryn Jeffs / Filming Southern Type B Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, January 2009

Kathryn Jeffs / Filming Southern Type B Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, January 2009

Kathryn Jeffs / Filming Southern Type B Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, January 2009

Jeff Wilson / Field Assistant, Jason Roberts, on top of mast looking out for submerged ice, Svalbard, Spitzbergen, Norway, July 2009. Taken on location for the BBC series, Frozen Planet.

Jeff Wilson / Director, Jeff Wilson, preparing for Antarctic filming expedition at the National Science Foundation base, Christchurch, New Zealand, October 2009. Taken on location for BBC series, Frozen Planet, Win...

Jeff Wilson / Frozen planet team boots and equipment ready for Antarctica expedition to Ross Sea, in National Science Foundation hanger, Christchurch, New Zealand. October 2009. Taken on location for BBC series, Fr...

Jeff Wilson / Director, Jeff Wilson, on look out for submerged ice in front of yacht, Svalbard, Spitzbergen, Norway, July 2009, Taken on location for the BBC series, Frozen Planet.

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

Jeff Wilson / Director, Chadden Hunter, preparing for Antarctic filming expedition at the National Science Foundation base, Christchurch, New Zealand, October 2009. Taken on location for BBC series, Frozen Planet,...

Jeff Wilson / Frozen planet team equipment ready for Antarctica expedition to Ross Sea, in National Science Foundation hanger, Christchurch, New Zealand. October 2009. Taken on location for BBC series, Frozen Plane...