Born 4th Feb 1944. As a child, I lived in the countryside, catching stickle-backs and collecting butterflies and birds-eggs (which was a common, and legal, hobby in those days). Consequently, when at Oxford, I read Zoology, (and rowed for Oxford in a couple of Boat Races). A fellow zoology-student was Peter Parks. After graduating in 1966, under the inspiration of Gerald Thompson, who had recently made the film The Alder Wood-wasp and its Insect Enemies, Peter Parks, Dr John Paling and I started macro-filming in the Zoology Department. Together with Gerald, his son David, his technician from the Forestry Department, and Dr John Cooke (a leading spider-expert), we spent the summer of 1968 in Jamaica, making 3x1 hrs for the BBC (Wild Jamaica). We took 28 crates of macro-filming gear, weighing several tons, to Jamaica by Banana Boat ! We had so much fun, that we decided to form Oxford Scientific Films Ltd, based in studios built in Gerald’s garden in Long Hanborough, and supported by Sir Peter Scott and Professor Niko Tinbergen. The largest room in the studios was a fully-equipped machine shop, in which Peter Parks created an endless succession of weird and fantastic contraptions for filming things that had hitherto been impossible to film. For many years, most of the animals and plants we filmed had never been filmed before. We, as enthusiastic biologists, found this intensely rewarding and enjoyable, but not easy. Problem-solving, and enthusiasm, were our life-blood. Educational films, wildlife films for the BBC and Anglia TV (Survival), and later, TV Commercials, and special effects filming for Hollywood, paid the wages. Just. Thereafter I spent the rest of my business life making wildlife films, helping to run the Company, and meeting and working with the most fascinating and wonderful colleagues and collaborators.