My Wild Life

Raymond Besant is an award winning wildlife cameraman and photographer from the Orkney Islands. He started out as a press photographer for the P&J in Aberdeenshire, and has since gone on to specialise as a long lens wildlife cameraman, filming a wide range of programmes for the BBC Natural History Unit and BBC Scotland. He filmed as one of two principal cameraman on 'Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart' with Maramedia for BBC Scotland and for two years went up  freezing mountains, camped on uninhabited islands and walked through ancient woodlands filming Scotland's most charismatic birds and animals.

His talk will go behind the scenes sharing stories filming Wolves on the Tibetan Plateau, following Forest Elephants in the rainforests of Gabon and watching calving glaciers whilst filming for BBC Frozen Planet 2