Greg's long-held ambition has been to photograph the critically endangered black rhino in a forest habitat.
His trip to Lake Nakuru, Kenya, had an inauspicious start when he dropped his lens, losing the zoom and VR (vibration-reduction) functions. And his subject - renowned for being shy - completely eluded him. On the last day, at first light, he went for the last time into the ancient fever-tree forest. It was then that he finally spotted what he'd been waiting for, browsing on a fallen tree. 'I was shaking with excitement,' he confesses, 'which posed a problem without VR, and the forest was so dark that my shutter speed sank.' His old beanbag came to the rescue as a prop for his lens, enabling him finally to capture the magnificent animal in the golden light of dawn.
South Africa
Greg has spent the last 20 years photographing exclusively in Africa, waiting for the perfect light, subject, background and behaviour to coexist in singular moments. He specialises in low light and slow shutter speeds. He won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year grand title in 2013 and is one of Africa's most sought-after photographic safari guides.
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