But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.

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

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!

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.