“Throughout my childhood I was surrounded by wildlife thanks to my Dad who loved to travel and took us to many wild and wonderful places. I loved the animals I would encounter. I thought of them as furry and feathered 'people'. It was how I formed a relationship with them from a very young age.”

“Now that I’m an adult, I can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing than spending a day with some birds, getting to know them, them getting to know me and finding a way to cut through our differences until we’re left with one animal photographing another."