The Field Archive · 2016 — 2026
Every frame here
cost somebody time.
Fifteen frames from fourteen years of hides, blinds, ice edges and canopy platforms. Hover — or tap — any photograph and it will tell you exactly how long the wait was. That number is the point.
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15 frames · 4 continents · 0 animals baited
Snow leopard · Ladakh, Himalaya · 34°N 77°E
Ridge Crossing, First Light
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 9 · Final frame: 1/2000s
A female crosses the col above our camp at 05:41. Nine expeditions, one frame.
Arctic fox · Kongsfjorden, Svalbard · 78°N 12°E
Den Watch, Polar Twilight
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 4 · Final frame: 1/800s
Four days in a snow trench, eleven metres from the den entrance. She never once looked at me.
Polar bear · Storfjorden, Svalbard · 77°N 19°E
Fast Ice, Late Season
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 6 · Final frame: 1/1250s
Nine days on the ice edge. He walked past the boat twice before the light finally held.
Rhinoceros hornbill · Danum Valley, Borneo · 5°N 117°E
The Canopy King
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 7 · Final frame: 1/500s
A platform hide lashed into a fig tree at 34 metres. Two wet seasons to get the shaft of light.
Borneo pygmy elephant · Kinabatangan, Borneo · 5°N 118°E
River Crossing, Dusk
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 3 · Final frame: 1/320s
The herd crosses at the same bend every dry season. We waited five evenings for the mist.
Cheetah · Seronera, Serengeti · 2°S 34°E
First Light, Dry Grass
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 5 · Final frame: 1/1600s
A ground hide, four mornings running, for eleven seconds of her standing up.
African elephant · Ndutu Plains, Serengeti · 2°S 35°E
The Long Walk
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 2 · Final frame: 1/640s
Eleven kilometres of walking, downwind, for the moment dust caught the sun.
Puma · Laguna Azul, Patagonia · 51°S 73°W
Steppe Sentinel
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 11 · Final frame: 1/1000s
Three winters tracking the same territory. This male finally stopped long enough.
Guanaco · Torres del Paine, Patagonia · 51°S 72°W
Storm Country
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 2 · Final frame: 1/400s
Patagonian weather is the real subject. Four hours of squall, ninety seconds of light.
Common kingfisher · Hickling Broad, Norfolk · 52°N 1°E
The Signature Subject
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 14 · Final frame: 1/2500s
The bird that started it all, on a Norfolk reedbed, twenty winters running.
Humpback whale · Vava’u, Tonga · 18°S 174°W
Breach, Grey Water
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 6 · Final frame: 1/3200s
Eleven days at sea. No hide down here — only patience and a fast shutter.
Weddell seal · Ross Sea, Antarctica · 77°S 166°E
Ice Breath
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 3 · Final frame: 1/1000s
Shot lying flat on the sea ice for six hours, at polite distance, while she slept.
Snowy owl · Edgeøya, Svalbard · 78°N 22°E
Ghost of the Tundra
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 8 · Final frame: 1/1800s
An irruption year. She hunted the same fence line at the same hour every evening.
Grey wolf (distant) · Karelian taiga · 65°N 30°E
Wolf Country, Blue Hour
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 12 · Final frame: 1/250s
Seventeen nights in a Finnish hide for one silhouette across a frozen lake.
Baobab & Milky Way · Makgadikgadi, Botswana · 20°S 24°E
Where the Wild Things Are
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 2 · Final frame: 20s
One new moon a year puts the galactic core behind this tree. We waited for two.
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