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[Gregg Spradling]

I was looking at this page about the Human Planet series and the photographer Timothy Allen. If any of you get the BBC, I would think this is going to be an amazing series.

A bit of trivia...the project was 1.5 years and spread over 40 countries. He stated he likes to shoot a lot, about 10,000-20,000 images per shoot. I can only assume that each country is considered to be at least 1 shoot. That would be a minimum of 400,000 shots!!    That's like getting a 1D MKIV and going through it's shutter life of 150-200k and then going through another one. (he uses a pair of 5D MKII)

Amazing piece of work and a fascinating career.


Edit: changed typo from BBS to BBC

[David Salmanowitz]

Thanks for posting this, some great images.    I have seen the first episode and enjoyed it. Neat to get some backstage info as in the link.

[Khun Hans]

Just terrific photography, Gregg. Thanks for the link.
Hans

[David Salmanowitz]

Hans--maybe British Broadcasting System, but most of us know it as BBC--British Broadcasting Corporation. 

[Khun Hans]

Ok, got it and modified my post

[Gregg Spradling]

Holy typo Batman, I meant BBC. 

[David Salmanowitz]

Figured that was the case Gregg.  :)