So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.
Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.
In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.
A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.
All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
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!
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.