In July 2007 Jan and I traveled to Spitsbergen on an expedition cruise led by Rinie van Meurs. Rinie has 20 years of experience in polar expeditions and has led over 100 expedition cruises in the region. Not only was he able to find and approach abundant wildlife (including 13 polar bears), but as an experienced photographer he always seemed to position us with the sun at our backs. Better still, nobody was eaten by bears! This update to my wildlife web site is exclusively given over to images from this trip.
Jan and I are agreed that this was the most amazing travel experience. The group was truly international and everybody shared a passion for the wilderness and the wildlife. We were in the company of many photographers (some were professional) and at least one travel writer. I took over 6000 photographs and Jan filmed 7 hours of video. If any of you Northants photographers out there would like more details of how to get booked on to an expedition, just drop me an e-mail. It would be good to hear from our fellow travelers on this expedition, too.
My other passion is music. As well as performing on trumpet I compose music. Some of my composition can be found on my music web site HERE.
