Working on The Green Planet, presented by David Attenborough, marked a real turning point for me. It was my first major step into specialising in documentary time-lapse, and the first time I was fully dedicated to creating my own studio-based natural history sequences from start to finish.

 

I joined the production in early 2021, during a period when COVID restrictions meant working in strict isolation. As a result, I operated largely independently, taking on the widest range of setups I’d ever attempted at that point. It was an intense and demanding experience, but also an incredibly formative one, pushing me further than anything I’d done before.

 

The sequences I was tasked with contributing to included North American maples leafing out, dandelions clocking, daisies tracking the movement of the sun, lithops growing and flowering, and various plants emerging through cracks in street paving. I also captured oyster mushrooms.

 

Until then, I had focused on one setup at a time, but at the peak of filming I was running up to six separate time-lapse systems simultaneously. It was a steep learning curve, but one that fundamentally shaped how I work today.

 

A big thank you to BBC for the opportunity.