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Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.

Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful.

The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.