Warm sunset light illuminating a patch of rainfall above Belver forest in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

From sandy beaches to snowy mountains, the Balearic Islands offer a huge variety of landscapes, constantly changing with the weather. I find the Islands to be most beautiful during winter and spring, where rapid thunderstorms and heavy showers give way to magic lighting and scenery. Related galleries can be found here : · Mallorca Landscapes [...]

During the passage from the Falkland Islands, across the Scotia Sea towards Antarctica, we went through a “typical” storm for this region. A large wave is about to crash into the side of the RRS James Clark Ross (our oceanographic research vessel). I was supposed to go and launch an XBT profiler just where the [...]

A scientific expedition to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt to search for a “living fossil”, a microorganism called metacrangonyx that lives in the desert’s underground waters.

An Oceanographic Expedition to Antarctica. These images were taken during a research cruise to Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey from October to December 2006. The mission was to study the biodiversity in the Scotia Sea, as well as to open the Signy Island summer base.