Another throwback - this one from Life in Cold Blood. Filming a sequence about crocodiles in South Africa with @markyates . I had clearly bored the cheetah into a stupor by this point but David is managing to fight back the boredom. He's nice like that. Photo taken by Mick Connaire #attenborough #Lifein ColdBlood #BBC #BBCEarth #Attenborough100
Happy Birthday to David. A nice BTS shot from Life in Cold Blood with sound recordist 'Wokka;. David always has a sense of humour, even on long shoot days he is always ready to laugh and swapping tales and talking about playing rugby. Some on the naughty side. Except his stories might include the king of Tonga and a giant crocodile. #attenborough photo @thegavinthurston
Another BTS with Attenborough. You can see a (very youthful) me, with sound recordists Chris Watson and I think that is Jennie Collie's head . #attenborough #BehindtheScenes #BBC #BBCEarth
Life in Cold Blood filming in California. Keith Brust is shooting a piece to camera with David about side-blotched lizards. You can tell this is an old picture by the super 16mm film camera. #Attenborough #LifeinColdBlood
Some more behind the scene from Life in Cold Blood filming Nile Crocodiles at Tshukudu in South Africa in the early 2000s . The subject of this sequence was a particularly co-operative crocodile . #attenborough #LifeinColdBlood #attenborough #BBC #BBCEarth #Attenborough100
Another behind the scenes image from Life in Cold Blood between takes. Foreground is a (yellow phase ) side-blotched Lizard, background is a knight of the realm. #attenborough #LifeinColdBlood #attenborough #BBC #BBCEarth #Attenborough100
Behind the scenes filming timber rattlesnakes for Life in Cold Blood back in the day. Davis and Harry Greene chatting during. break in filming. Crew DOPs Mark MacEwan and Luke Barnett being patient (although, as we discovered, it’s hard to be more patient than a snake!) Also here is a portrait of our star ‘Hank’ ( named after singer Hank Williams ). This shoot was a childhood dream for me, and at the time it was hard to comprehend what was being achieved - filming something for the first time Big BBC projects like this are so good at bringing the right collection of people together skills from Science, technical, camera and story telling world , without any of them none of it would have been possible #attenborough #LifeinColdBlood #attenborough #BBC #BBCEarth #Attenborough100#Rattlesnakes
Can you find me? This time, not a camouflaged snake but a Sir David Attenborough ( for it is he ) . Well camouflaged against the blue skies of the Great Barrier Reef in his trademark Oxford shirt . I took this photo whilst filming Olive Sea Snakes in Australia for Life In cold Blood with @gavin.thurston #Attenbrough #LifeinColdBlood
Can you see it? In the middle somewhere is 'Hank' the Timber Rattlesnake. Star of of 'Life in Cold Blood'. He was the first rattlesnake filmed ambush hunting in this way( perhaps the first snake ?) Filmed in New York State with DOPs @markmacewen_dop and @luke_barnett_cameraman and with the help of legendary biologist Harry Greene #LifeinColdBlood #BBC #BBCEarth #Attenborough
A Dragon Lizard (Ctenophorus vadnappa) filming for Attenborough's series Wildlife on One. This was one of the first time I produced a long form doc and was able to combine my love of reptiles. Still one of my favourite shoots Filmed by @petermarknearhos edited by @andychastney #Attenborough #BBC #naturalhistoryunit #BBCEarth
