The goals of fundraising challenges can often seem incongruous with their means, none can feel quite so different, though, than heading to the Arctic Circle to undertake a series of physical and mental challenges to raise money for African wildlife. But that is exactly what we did.

2023 was one of my favourite yet behind a camera. From the Himalayas to the Arctic, Kenya to Zambia there were epic encounters everywhere I went.

2023 feels like the first normal year I’ve had behind my camera since 2020. From the Arctic to the Himalayas my work’s taken me to three continents, six countries and again focussed on raising funds for the very species they depict.

Over the last 18 months William and Richard, founder of McKay Williamson Gallery in Ladbroke have been working on their new partnership and, as prints start to fly out the door, look to new exhibitions to round of 2023.

A detailed diary of my most successful journey to Amboseli yet…

There will never be a time like this again in the Masai Mara. Usually one of the most visited game reserves in the world, I have had moments of despair in the past as the animal to human ratio skews heavily in favour of two legged tourists. Now though, it is different. While so many are unable to travel, be it through government restrictions, confidence in travelling or inability to finance a previously planned trip, I have been incredibly fortunate to spend the last three months in the Mara.

Nature’s World Cup. The Greatest Show on Earth. A Natural Wonder of the World. Chaos. All of these terms are used, often, to describe The Great Migration. Every year it fills natural history documentaries, attracts the world’s greatest photographers, draws in hundreds of thousands of tourists and generates Kenya’s lodges, parks and communities many, many millions of dollars. But why?

This is the closest I have ever come to perfectly executing a plan. I’m not sure whether it’s possible as a photographer to ever achieve an image exactly how you imagine it initially, but this is as near as I have managed, so far

For any travel, wildlife or photography enthusiast seeing a gorilla in the wild is surely an ultimate bucket list moment. It certainly was and is for me and in May 2019 my wish to photograph them became a reality

Seeing an African wild dog, just like seeing a gorilla, had been atop my bucket list since my first safari as a photographer in 2012. Thanks to the Fitzjohn family this wish became a reality in April 2019