It is always humbling when people enjoy and appreciate your work. Even more so when it is a big international competition. So it was with great enjoyment that I received an email notifying me that my film The Last Cheetahs had been highly honoured in Nature’s Best Photography International Awards for 2025.

I’m beyond thrilled that our film The Last Cheetahs won Silver in the International Tourism Film Festival Africa documentary category.

It is a very great privilege to have been asked to put together the video introducing the guide finalists for this year’s Wanderlust Magazine Guide of the Year.

These awards are unique and celebrate the men and women who make travel exceptional.

Jealousy aside, making this short promo video for Paul and Shackleton was a lot of fun and brought back all the wonderful memories of exploring the frozen ocean around Baffin Island in search of polar bears. There is no getting around the fact that it is bone-chillingly cold, however. And no amount of memory-haze can obscure that detail - it is deeply ingrained in every tiny moment I recall.

To travel there, in spring, with temperatures exceeding minus 30ºC requires some serious cold-weather gear.

The rainy season is not often the time of choice for travel to Kenya’s Masai Mara Conservancies, but for us it was the perfect time at the end of the season to spend some quality time with some of our favourite people.