In north east India the Khasi tribe grow incredible living bridges that last for hundreds of years.
Mar 21, 2011 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: 7 sister states, banyan, banyan tree, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, Cherapunjee, Discovery, East Khasi Hills, ficus, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, India, Inosculation, Khasi Tribe, living bridge, living bridges, Living root bridges, Mawlynnong, Mawlynong, Meghalaya, NE States, North East Frontier States, north east States, Planeta Humano, root bridge, root bridges, Severn Sister States, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer, Travel | 81 Comments »
Kenya … I’ve been trying to find a spare moment to write a new post for a couple of weeks now. Two episodes of Human Planet have been and gone whilst I have been away in Africa with Comic Relief, and whilst I was actually using a satellite to send images back home daily, our […]
Mar 03, 2011 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: BT Red Nose Desert Trek, Comic Relief, Craig David, Dermot O'Leary, Kaisut Desert, Kara Tointon, Kenya, Lorraine Kelly, Nadia Sawalha, Olly Murs, Peter White, Red Nose Day, Ronni Ancona, Scott Mills | 4 Comments »
Witness the amazing lengths that some people will go to to get their sugar fix…
Feb 05, 2011 | Categories: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 »
Greenland … Prior to traveling to Greenland with Human Planet, I had never been to the Arctic before. I don’t know exactly what I was expecting. Cold? Yes of course, but I don’t think anything can quite prepare you for the astonishing panoramas that hide quietly around every frozen corner. A winter north of the […]
Jan 27, 2011 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Arctic, Arctic Circle, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, boiling water freezes, Discovery, Greenland, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, ilulissat, Planeta Humano, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer | 16 Comments »
In the desert of Niger, the Wodaabe tribe have a unique way of meeting a mate
Jan 20, 2011 | Categories: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 | 21 Comments »
Meet the incredible men who risk their lives fishing with hookah pipes in the South China Sea
Jan 05, 2011 | Categories: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 | 31 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: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 | 15 Comments »
Pakistan … I have just arrived back to the capital city of Islamabad after 14 days filming at Shabhaz refugee camp near Hyderabad in Pakistan’s Sindh province, one of the areas heavily affected by this country’s recent horrendous floods. This is the first time I’ve been to Pakistan and it has been a very emotional […]
Dec 08, 2010 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: floods, Hyderabad, IDP, Oxfam, Pakistan, photographer, refugee camp, Shabhaz, Sindh, Timothy Allen | Leave A Comment »
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 »
My Top 5 most memorable Human Planet camp sites …Thanks to Iceland’s recent explosion in exports of Volcanic ash, I had to cancel my last Human Planet trip back to Mali, and since our filming schedule is now slowly beginning to wind up, I thought I’d plough through the picture archive and dig up some snaps […]
May 04, 2010 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, camp, camping, campsite, canvas, expedition, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, isolated, Planeta Humano, remote, site, tent, Timothy Allen, Zanskar River | 1 Comment »
Brazil …It’s a funny old world we live in. Today I’m sitting writing this in a hotel room at São Paulo airport, our flight home cancelled indefinitely because a volcano has erupted in Iceland, almost 10,000 km away. Yesterday, on our boat in the Amazon, if you’d have asked me to make a bet on […]
Apr 16, 2010 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Amazon, Amazon Basin, Amazon River, ash cloud, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, botos, Brasil, Brazil, Dolphin, flooded forest, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Iceland, Manaus, Planeta Humano, Rio Negro, river dolphin, South America, stranded, Timothy Allen, turtles, underwater photography, volcano | 1 Comment »
India …After the last few weeks of misadventures in Ladakh, I finally said my farewells to our Mountains team a couple of days ago, leaving them nursing their blisters and brittle noses in our Delhi apartment. Forty kilograms of luggage lighter, I decided to backpack it alone to my next destination of Jaipur, but not […]
Mar 22, 2010 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Asia, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, India, Jaipur, monkey thieves, Monkeys, Pink City, Planeta Humano, Rajasthan, Timothy Allen, urban jungle | Leave A Comment »
Zanskar …Every now and then, as a photographer I shoot a story that really touches me deeply. You can never tell which one it’s going to be and often you only realize it when you are looking back through your pictures in hindsight. Sitting here in the warmth of my hotel room, I have to […]
Feb 26, 2010 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Asia, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, Chadar, Himalayas, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Ice trek, India, Indian Himalayas, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Planeta Humano, Timothy Allen, Zanskar | 9 Comments »
India …I have been here in Ladakh for 3 days already but today was the first day I’ve actually managed to get out and do a bit of sight-seeing. This has been due to the inevitable bout of altitude sickness that has inflicted me these past few days like many people who travel here directly […]
Feb 22, 2010 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Ankit Goyal, Asia, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, Himalayas, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, India, Indian Himalayas, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Leh, Leh Ladakh, Manali, monks, motor bike, Motorcycle, Nubra Valley, photographs, Planeta Humano, Royal Enfield Bullet, Timothy Allen | 15 Comments »
Papua New Guinea …I’m back in the sweaty forests of Papua New Guinea again, although this time I’m with the Mountains team. It’s true. Strictly speaking we are actually in the jungle, but as it goes, we’re also in the mountains, so for once it looks like rock beats paper on this occasion. The realization […]
Feb 15, 2010 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, cargo cult, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Jane Atkins, jungle, Pacific, Papua new Guinea, Planeta Humano, Sepik, Timothy Allen | Leave A 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 »
Mongolia …There are two frequently quoted buzz words in the Human Planet offices… man, and nature. By man, we are of course colloquially referring to the human race and not just the male denomination of our species. By nature, folk here tend to be alluding to animals in the first instance, and then to our environment if the zoological […]
Dec 03, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Altai Mountains, Asia, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, Eagle Hunters, Golden Eagle, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Kazakh, Mongolia, Planeta Humano, Timothy Allen | 4 Comments »
Philippines …Firstly, apologies for missing a week with my posts to this blog. It was probably a little ambitious of me to expect a decent internet connection from the middle of the South China Sea. That’s not to say that such a thing is impossible, just extremely inconvenient and quite tricky when you’re living on […]
Oct 29, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, Diving, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Philippines, Planeta Humano, Roger Munns, scuba, South China Sea, south east asia, Timothy Allen, underwater photography | 9 Comments »
Sabah …I must admit, I wasn’t expecting to see this sight when I woke up this morning. We’ve been suffering the periphery of typhoon Parma since I arrived here in Sabah, shrouding the Celebes sea in rainy grey clouds and dashing any hopes I’ve had of shooting pictures from our helicopter which has spent the […]
Oct 09, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Bajau, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, Borneo, gypsy, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo, Malaysian Borneo Sabah, Planeta Humano, Sabah, sea, sea gypsies, south east asia, suluk, Timothy Allen | 7 Comments »
Indonesia …Indonesia is one of my favourite countries in the world. I spent a lot of time here in my twenties, just roaming around, visiting as many as I could of the seventeen odd thousand islands that make up this immense archipelago. Back then, coming to the remote island of Lembata would probably have involved […]
Oct 05, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Indonesia, Lamalera, Lembata, peladang, Planeta Humano, south east asia, Timothy Allen, Whale hunting, Whales | 5 Comments »
Kenya …Coming to Kenya with the BBC’s natural history unit you’d be forgiven for assuming that I was here to spend a few weeks on safari. For sure, the BBC’s cameramen and women have had a long and fruitful relationship with Kenya’s amazing wildlife over the years, resulting in some of the most sensational wildlife […]
Sep 20, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Africa, BBC, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, dump, garbage, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Kenya, Mombasa, Planeta Humano, rubbish, scavengers, Timothy Allen, waste dump | 5 Comments »
Cambodia …As part of the Jungles program on Human Planet we have come to Cambodia to investigate a place where nature has reclaimed the site of a former human civilization. That place is the 200 square kilometre area of Angkor in Central Cambodia, former home to, amongst others, the great Khmer empire of King Suryavarman […]
Sep 04, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Angelina Jolie, Angkor, Angkor Wat, banyan, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, Cambodia, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Khmer, Lara Croft, monks, Planeta Humano, south east asia, Ta Phrom, temples, Timothy Allen, Tomb Raider, tree roots | 3 Comments »
Papua New Guinea …Papua New Guinea’s fantastic cultural heritage has been drawing a steady stream of photographers to its shores for many years now. In fact, I’m pretty sure that my own particular passion for travelling to remote places was substantially inspired by images from this magical island which have been residing quietly in my […]
Aug 28, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, Bird of Paradise, blogsherpa, hagen Show, Huli, Huli Tribe, Huli wigmen, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Mount Hagen, Mount Hagen festival, Pacific, Papua new Guinea, Planeta Humano, PNG, show, sing sing, Timothy Allen, Tribes, wigman, wigmen | 6 Comments »
