The story of two young men from opposite sides of the world who both appeared in the BBC’s Human Planet
Feb 10, 2011 | Categories:Photography, View the complete Archive | Tags: Africa, Altai Mountains, Asia, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, Discovery, eagle hunter, Ethiopia, Gelada Baboon, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Kazakh, Mongolia, mountains life in thin air, Planeta Humano, Simien Mountains, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer | 14 Comments »
Witness the amazing lengths that some people will go to to get their sugar fix…
Feb 05, 2011 | Categories:Photography, Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Africa, Bayaka, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, bbc rachael kinley, Central African Republic, Discovery, Human Planet BBC, Planeta Humano, Rachael Kinley, rachael kinley bbc, rachael kinley human planet, rachel kinley, Tim Fogg, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer, Tom Hugh-Jones | 28 Comments »
In the desert of Niger, the Wodaabe tribe have a unique way of meeting a mate
Jan 20, 2011 | Categories:Photography, Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Africa, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, Desert, Discovery, Gerewol, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, jeerewol, jerewol, Niger, nomad, Planeta Humano, raume, Sahel, Timothy Allen, tribe, Wodaabe | 10 Comments »
Meet the incredible men who risk their lives fishing with hookah pipes in the South China Sea
Jan 05, 2011 | Categories:Photography, Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, breath diver, Discovery, diver, filipino, fishing, hookah, hookah pipe, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Moro Ami, Oceans - Into the Blue, Pa-aling, paaling, Philipines, Philippines, Phillipines, Planeta Humano, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer | 32 Comments »
… Well, it’s that time of the year again. The time when photographer’s throughout the world root through dusty hard drives and put together a synopsis of their year in images. Of course, for the second year running, my year has been dominated by Human Planet, many images of which you may well have already [...]
Dec 31, 2010 | Categories:Photography, Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Human Planet, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, my year in pictures, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer | 27 Comments »
India … When I went backpacking through South East Asia in the early nineties, myself and a friend got quite into collecting old beads on our travels, a hobby I still have to this very day. Back then, along with the Tibetan Plateau, home of the infamously mysterious Dzi beads, North East India’s Nagaland represented my [...]
Dec 21, 2010 | Categories:Photography, Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Ao Naga, Chang Naga, Head Hunters, India, Konyak, Konyak Naga, Longwa, Moatsu, Myanmar, Naga, Nagaland, North East, North East Frontier States, north east States, opium, tribal, tribe | 13 Comments »
‘Best in show’ for dead animals. Welcome to the fascinating world of competitive taxidermy.
Nov 16, 2010 | Categories:Photography, View the complete Archive | Tags: fish carving, Jeanette Hall, Ken Walker, Photography, Taxidermist, Taxidermy, Taxidermy Stuff the World, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer, Travel, World Taxidermy Championships | 4 Comments »
Indonesia …Residents of Java are well accustomed to the presence of volcanoes in their lives. Take a dawn climb to any one of the island’s 40 or so peaks, and a glance to either the east or the west of you will normally reveal a scene worthy of the set of Jurassic Park as you [...]
Aug 06, 2010 | Categories:Photography, Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: active volcano, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, East Java, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Ijen, Ijen Volcano, Indonesia, Java, Jawa Timur, Kawar Ijen, mine, mining, Mount Ijen, Planeta Humano, south east asia, sulfur, sulphur, sulphur mine, Timothy Allen, volcano | 1 Comment »
Singapore …Two weeks into 2010 and I am back from my one month break over the holiday season. As is the tradition for photographers around this time of year, I have put together a small portfolio of previously unseen pictures from 2009… one from each Human Planet shoot last year. Yesterday I left my home [...]
Jan 18, 2010 | Categories:Photography, Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, photographer, Planeta Humano, Tim Allen, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer, Travel, travel photography | 9 Comments »
The story behind the image …”Everyone remembers what they were doing the moment they heard John F Kennedy had been assassinated” This is something I remember my mum mentioning on a number of occasions when I was a child. In my lifetime I think I can recall only a couple of events that have influenced [...]
Sep 11, 2009 | Categories:Photography, View the complete Archive | Tags: 911, aeroplane, Barcelona airport, BBC, BBC Earth, crash, departure gate, explosion, Human PLanet, photograph, Ricoh GR1, Ricoh GR2, Ricoh GR3, September 11th, Timothy Allen, trauma, TV event, twin towers, Visa Pour L'Image | 8 Comments »
The story behind the image …In terms of my photography, the most common question I am asked is “What is your favourite picture that you’ve taken”. It’s a very easy question to ask, but as those of you who shoot pictures regularly will no doubt understand, it’s an incredibly difficult one to answer. In order [...]
Aug 14, 2009 | Categories:Photography, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Earth, Horse's head, Human PLanet, Jeanette Hall, photograph, photojournalism, Taxidermist, Taxidermy, Taxidermy Stuff the World, Timothy Allen, White horse, World Taxidermy Championships | 2 Comments »
The story behind the image …A lot of people have been asking me about this image, a cropped version of which appears on the masthead of this blog, so here’s the story of how it came about. I shot this photograph in 2007 whilst on a 2 month tour of south west China. It was [...]
May 29, 2009 | Categories:Photography, Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Asia, BBC, BBC Earth, blogsherpa, China, dance, Guizhou Province, Human PLanet, jewellery, Miao tribe, silver jewellery, Sisters meal festival, Timothy Allen | 2 Comments »
The story behind the image …I shot this picture a couple of years ago whilst on a 4 week trip through the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Bhutan can be a complicated country in which to travel since, as a visitor you are required to take a guided tour as your means of travel through the [...]
May 09, 2009 | Categories:Photography, Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Asia, BBC, BBC Earth, behind the scenes, Bhutan, blogsherpa, Dzong, highlights, Human PLanet, meditation, Monastery, photograph, portrait, Thimpu, Timothy Allen | 7 Comments »
The Journey Begins …Welcome to the beginning of a rather extraordinary journey. Over the next 20 months I will be accompanying BBC film crews on a groundbreaking voyage around Planet Earth to document the remarkable ways in which the human species has adapted to living within our world’s natural environments. During this time, we will [...]
Feb 21, 2009 | Categories:Photography, Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, journey, photographer, Photography, photography blog, Planeta Humano, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer, Travel | 7 Comments »
