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 »
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 »
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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 »