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 »
Pakistan … From a dusty old hotel room in Southern Pakistan, I would just like to say many, many thanks to those of you who have been sending me incredibly kind messages since BBC News ran an audio slide show of some of my photographs from Human Planet a couple of days ago. I really […]
Mar 05, 2011 | Categories:Comment, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, how to become a photographer, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Planeta Humano, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer | 20 Comments »
Los Angeles … I’ve been in L.A. for the last week doing some press for the launch of Human Planet in the USA tonight on the Discovery Channel. One of the most enjoyable was a piece we filmed for NBC’s Carson Daly show, a late night magazine programme that appears to be something akin to […]
Mar 02, 2011 | Categories:Video, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, Carson Daly, David Attenborough, Discovery, Discovery Channel, Hollywood, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Human Planet blog, interview, photographer, Planeta Humano, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer | 10 Comments »
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 | 15 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 »
Sabah, Malaysia … In anticipation of the premiere of Human Planet, the BBC has today released three teaser clips from the Oceans episode which be the first of the eight to be broadcast next week. My favourite one is an extraordinary clip of Bajau free diver Sulbin, as he takes a dive to 20 metres […]
Jan 04, 2011 | Categories:Video, View the complete Archive | Tags: Bajau, Bajau Free diver, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, Borneo, Discovery, free diver. free diving, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Malaysia, oceans, Planeta Humano, Sabah, sea gypsy, spear fishing, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer, Tun Sakaran | 4 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The story behind the image Ricoh GR1, Fujifilm press 800 colour negative film, 28mm lens, unknown aperture & shutter speed . . . …”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 […]
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 »
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 »
Papua New Guinea …Today I can report back categorically that there is definitely no easy way to get to the centre of Papua New Guinea from the UK. At the last count my journey here involved 4 planes and just over 30 hours of flying. Consequently, this week’s post is going to be very […]
Aug 21, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, bones, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, jet lag, Pacific, Papua new Guinea, Planeta Humano, PNG, skeleton, skull, south east asia, Timothy Allen | 3 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 »
Laos …Allow me to introduce you to Samnieng… that’s him in the middle of the picture on his way to work on a typical Monday morning in August. He lives about a kilometre from this spot on the wrong side of the river from his place of work which lies on a small island amid […]
Aug 07, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: 4000 islands, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, dangerous, Extreme fishing, fisherman, fishing, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Laos, Mekong river, Planeta Humano, rapids, rope bridge, Siphandon, south east asia, The 4000 Islands, Timothy Allen | 7 Comments »
A Word in Your Shell-Like
Pakistan … From a dusty old hotel room in Southern Pakistan, I would just like to say many, many thanks to those of you who have been sending me incredibly kind messages since BBC News ran an audio slide show of some of my photographs from Human Planet a couple of days ago. I really […]
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Mar 05, 2011 | Categories:Comment, View the complete Archive | Tags: BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, how to become a photographer, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Planeta Humano, Timothy Allen, Timothy Allen Photographer | 20 Comments »