Into the blue
A screen grab from film footage of Percy the tusk fish who travels far and wide each day to collect clams, which he diligently takes back to the same spot to crack open
A split level shot of a turtle
‘The biggest challenge we faced was finding a healthy kelp forest with lots of life’
The epic Blue Planet II project took four years to complete and involved 125 shoots in 39 countries, 6,000 hours of filming underwater and an additional 1,000 hours of filming in submersibles at depths down to 1,000 metres below the surface. The result of this labour of love, documenting a part of the natural world often never seen before, is a seven-part BBC TV series and accompanying book including more than 200 still images by many of the world’s top nature photographers.
Indeed, as – is split into seven chapters: One Ocean, Coast, Coral Reef, Green Seas, Big Blue, The Deep and Our Ocean. The 312-page tome features the images of dozens of highly experienced nature photographers – the likes of Christian Ziegler, Doug Perrine, Audun Rikardsen and Alex Mustard – and tracked down two of them, Richard Herrmann and Richard Robinson, to find out more about how they helped to shoot this mammoth project.
