For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.