Blue Water Films

Keeping farm fit - well resting between reps!

Well… farm fit! This afternoon, contemplating the next set of reps!

London today

So…. I wonder what my copy of the script might be worth, especially as it was me that got him wet… (and famous)!

Colin Firth's wet shirt from Pride and Prejudice sells at auction for £25,000

Colin Firth's wet shirt from Pride and Prejudice sells at auction for £25,000 The shirt, which Colin Firth wore as Mr Darcy, has been auctioned with the proceeds going to charity.

Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, at dusk. 🇬🇧

My mother - as a child in c. 1924, and as an adult, c1966. 23rd January 1968 she passed away. Cancer. I remember her every year at this time….

Filming interview with Vice President Al Gore at WEF Davos this afternoon.

Just had the privilege of filming an interview with VP Al Gore for PBS in the US, here at the WEF in Davos

Swiss picket line…. -14C

First morning in Davos! Here for the World Economic forum. The last time I came here was on a school skiing trip in 1973!

40 years filming documentaries. 2016 - 2019, the Brexit Referendum. 4 films covering Brexit from start to finish, following all the main players throughout. In my opinion the only good thing that came out of Brexit was duty free gin in Calais. It’s still cheaper in the hypermarché though….

40 years shooting documentaries. 2022, the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Filming from the best camera position outside Westminster Abbey. The coffin being taken from the gun carriage….

40 years filming documentaries. 2023, the Coronation of King Charles III. Privileged to cover this event, and to have one of the best camera positions just outside Westminster Abbey.

40 years filming documentaries. 2014, the Maidan massacre, Kyiv. 24 hours after the massacre, by sniper fire, of over 100 protestors, I was there, following the story. Ultimately we ended up going to Crimea, the last journalists in before the borders were closed and Russia annexed Crimea (see separate post). I have these memorials all over Europe and beyond, they have become a common sight in my career. Every time I see them I wonder…. Why do we let this happen again and again…?

40 years filming documentaries. 2001. New York City, the aftermath of 9/11 telling the story of the British victims. Possibly the most difficult job of my career. The enormity of it was just incredible. The shock waves, in history, persist to this day. It was arguably the footprint for the work I have undertaken since then…. Making money out of other people’s misery. Or…. Being a witness and recording history…..

40 years filming documentaries. 1992, Buckingham Palace. Receiving an award from Prince Philip, in his capacity as president of the British Sub Aqua Club, for my part as a member of a joint services diving team expedition to dive on the shipwrecks of the battle of Jutland. I filmed both above and underwater as the team not only discovered the wrecks of HMS Invincible and HMS Queen Mary, but also dived on them. We were the first people to see the wrecks since they sank, with the loss of of 2500 lives, during the battle of Jutland, in 1916.

40 years filming documentaries. 2018, this film won a BAFTA award for the team, thanks to the braver and hard work of undercover whistleblower Callum Tulley. It was a highlight of my 22 year run of work on the BBC Panorama programme

40 years filming documentaries. 2009, Cape Town Gangstas. Martin Africa, former gangster, Elsie’s River. Filmed prior to the 2010 World Cup…

40 years filming documentaries. 2000, Kruger National Park filming the ten most dangerous animals in Africa for Discovery!

40 years filming documentaries. 2018, following Dir Don McCullin revisiting places he had photographed early in his career. Here in Scarborough, where he photographed 5 young men playing football on the beach in the early 60’s.

40 years shooting documentaries. 2021, Sierra Leone. Filming with, and mentoring, a pair of film makers making a heart rending documentary about Lasy P. She is a pr******te and guardian to similar, younger girls, who suffer extreme abuse and even death from their clients. The girls are caught in the trap of severe poverty, with no chance of escape, and prostitution is one of the few ways they can earn a few bucks. This was my first trip there since I was involved, briefly, during the British Army intervention in 1999 (see earlier picture on my feed) The film was for BBC Africa Eye.

40 years of documentary filming. 2012, Central African Republic. We had been following a troop of Heavily armed Ugandan Army soldiers on patrol, looking for Joseph Kony, in the rainforest. It was hard going, 17kms we walked, and we missed the Rendezvous with the helicopter that was due to extract us. Do we spent the night in the jungle to be picked up the next day. We were exhausted. The patrol had been in the jungle non-stop for three months.

40 years shooting documentaries. 1984, st. Peter Port harbour entrance, Guernsey. I have just returned to surface after filming underwater on a Roman shipwreck, for the BBC Chronicle filming. This was an extension of my diving experience (by now 9 years a veteran) following the Mary Rose adventure, bringing my expertise to underwater filming. I continued making films underwater for another 25 years!

40 years shooting documentaries in the UK film and TV biz. 1984, having just surfaced from a diving filming a Roman shipwreck lying in the garvour entrance in St. Peter Port, Guernsey. The film was part of the BBC chronicle series.

40 years shooting documentaries. Undercover filming sometimes needs extreme clothing - clearly in the kitchen it doesn’t work, but outside I’d be invisible!

40 years shooting documentaries. 2014, with the Israeli Defence Force, on the Gaza border, during the conflict that year to destroy the Hamas tunnels. Journalist and colleague Jane Corbin in the blue shirt

40 years shooting documentaries Just posted a reel - this is what the pictures are. In a Royal Navy Sea King help, Sierra Leone, 1999.

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On assignment this week, doing some stills for . Brill autumn colours!