Simon Littlejohn

Originally from London but now based in Chamonix, Mt Blanc. Until recently I was primarily a stills wildlife photographer, but with the introduction of the HD DSLR from Canon I have started to reshoot some of the subjects I have photographed in the past. I was a crew member on the the Yacht Group 4 which competed in the 1992/3 British Steel Challenge around the world yacht race, so I am used to working and photographing in extreme cold and difficult conditions as the southern ocean can easily be described at times as hell on earth.Commencing in the spring of 2011 I started shooting material for a wildlife documentary about the wildlife of Andalucia. This includes filming rarely seen footage of breeding and nesting Griffon Vultures, as well as pair of Bonelli's Eagles raising their chick (s) The documentary will also include rare footage of wild and critically endangered Iberian Lynx ( Lynx pardel) I am also filming material for a planned documentary about the elusive . I spent a total of 3.5 years in Chiles Torres del Paine NP , where I went in search of elusive Patagonian Pumas and the very rare Southern Andean Huemul ( hippocamelus bisulcus ) an endangered mid sized deer species only found in Chile and Argentina. I have just returned from my latest 5 month filming trip to Patagonia, where I successfully filmed the Puma hunting and killing one of it's main prey species the Guanaco, as well as capturing the closest footage ever shot of a Puma feeding on a carcass with a remote triggered camera from only 50cm from it's face as it fed. I will be returning to Patagonia in November 2019 to continue following and filming a number of female Pumas rearing their litters for a planned documentary.