David is an Emmy and Bafta award winning cinematographer who pioneered aerial filming of marine wildlife for the Attenborough series Planet Earth, Life, and Frozen Planet. His experience in this field led him to develop the technology for scientific wildlife surveying for the offshore renewable industry. The company he founded, HiDef Surveying, is now one of the two principal providers of such aerial services. Since he left HiDef he has been working with colleagues in NLA International and RVL-Aviation to develop a more advanced technology based on radar which can be employed irrespective of daylight or cloud cover.
He continues to work as a cinematographer with a particular specialism in maritime locations involving stabilised cameras on vessels. He has filmed on the British Antarctic Survey’s ships, the RRS "Ernest Shackleton" and the RRS "Sir David Attenborough", as well as on naval vessels of the Royal Navy, the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Norwegian Coastguard. His specialised skills have recently been employed to assist the development of aerial spraying approaches for the dispersant of maritime oil slicks.
