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All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

I have pictures of me feeding deer and possums with baby bottles. I am such an animal lover.

I'd been interested in animal behaviour as a teenager and had thought of studying it at one point.

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.