I have been really enjoying the latest offering from Sir David Attenborough, where he’s been bugging the hell out of reptiles by turning their little burrows into miniature Big Brother Houses.
He’s lost the plot though; haranguing a crocodile with nothing more than a pointy stick. If I go crocodile baiting, I like to do it with a huge gun, in an armoured vehicle, by remote control. Dave steps in with all the bravado of Steve Urwin, and when the croc decides she’s had enough, he steps out with all the alacrity of Rudolph Nureyev.
But the thing that really caught my eye was the show next week about tigers. One of the methods they have employed for getting a camera in to areas you wouldn’t necessarily want to go yourself, is that they dress it up as a log, and get an elephant to carry it.
Now, I’m really pleased to see him getting some work. That elephant has been doing it tough since he was the head of cinematography for the Dinosaur 3D Imax film. I was chatting to him the other day, and he was disappointed that the whole Imax thing hadn’t been a bigger success. The cameras that are capable of shooting the humungous Imax film, are enormous themselves, but he was happy to keep using it, and wasn't about to change over to a digital camera for the family holiday snaps. He was quite happy to keep carrying it around in the back of the mini.
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