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The most bizarre day of my life

I don’t generally photograph people, I’m a wildlife guy. I get asked to do family weddings, which I do because I hate small talk and buzzing around with a camera means I don’t have to do much of it. I enjoy photographing my kids, sometimes because I’m playing with new kit or sometimes because my wife has handed me a camera and told me to shoot some pictures “even if the bloody light isn’t right!” Over the past few years however I have begun shooting more images of people. I guess this comes from working with National Geographic and understanding that I can’t be a one trick pony, I need to be a good all round photographer, not just the ‘otter guy’.

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"My aim as a wildlife cameraman and photographer is to expose the brilliance of nature to the world.

I am constantly staggered and inspired by nature both in its design and its beauty, it's led to a life long obsession to understand it and document it."

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Charlie Hamilton James and a tracking dog in Scotland

Giant Otters

This year is kicking off with a film on Giant Otters which I'm making for the BBC Natural History Unit. Hector (my assistant) and I have been shooting the film in deepest darkest Peru, following a family of giant otters as they raise their cubs in a lake with 700 caiman living in it! I am a big fan of giant otters and had the privaldege of making a film on them ten years ago in exactly the same location. Giant otters are truly giants (well in otter terms they are) growing up to 6ft long and able to put away 4kg of fish a day! They live in family groups and are by far the most playful animals I have ever worked with. That is of course unless you are a caiman - caiman might be large crocodilians but they are in trouble if they get on the wrong side of the otters. We're shooting the film in Manu National Park in southern Peru. Manu is a stunning area of Amazonian rainforest and considered to be the most diverse place on earth. Keep your eyes on the website over the next few months as I'll be blogging about our exploits in the Amazon.

The Photo Society

On a recent trip to National Geographic magazine in Washington, I was invited to join The Photo Society. This is a group made up of contributing National Geographic photographers who are, as the website states 'committed to telling the world's stories through pictures.' The pictures on the site are stunning and it's really worth a look. Check out the website http://thephotosociety.org/


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Halcyon River Diaries DVD

"A wonderful account of one family's interaction with the natural world" The Daily Mail

There's a saying in television -

'Never work with children or animals' in this series we did both. The results were hilarious. We shot this series for BBC 1 over a year and it follows the story of me, my wife Philippa and our three boys Fred, Gus and Arthur as we try to get to know our wild neighbours and learn more about them - otters, kingfishers, dragonflies, moorhens, dippers and many more. There's some lovely footage of the animals on the river and some dramatic and sad stories. What we like most about the series is that it's fun and honest and packed with information. It seemed to be a real hit with the public and it achieved what Philippa and I were hoping - to inspire and educate people about the natural World.