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Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

Now you may or may not know the name Doug Allen.

Dug's a highly regarded wildlife cameraman and photographer.

His name appears on the credits of David Attenborough's Blue and Frozen Planet series.

At the beginning of this year, Doug happened to be in Aberdeen, which is quite close to where I live,

giving a talk in his career as part of Royal Scottish Geographical Society series of lectures.

I went along to the lecture, which was fascinating, and I got hold of him at the end of the day,

and I said, look, can we meet up tomorrow? I just like a chance to chat with you in a bit more leisure.

He very kindly agreed, and we took a wander along the beach.

I come from Dunfermline in Fife, that's where I was bornirling, and then more or less started to travel when I graduated, although my first job, interesting, I worked with Bill Abernethy, Scotland's last full-time pearl fisherman.

I was his diver effectively for a year just after I left university and we had a great time, good fun and then I hur hurried off really went to the Red Sea, Germany, Jersey,

back to the Red Sea, Antarctic,

and then chance meeting with David Attenborough in the Antarctic.

That took me into wildlife filming.

You know, it all sounds very glib and easy,

but there was a few bits of good fortune, and, you know, I took advantage of things that came my way, but I really just built one

interest on top of the other. It started diving, diving took me to the biology, biology took me to

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