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 Andy Rouse biography Andy Rouse is a 36 year old Hampshire-based Wildlife Photographer. He is a nutter and has been photographing wildlife in its natural environment for approximately seven years, professionally for the last six. He specialises in species that are dangerous, or that prove elusive and difficult to photograph. He is known for doing stupid things, for example lying down in front of bull elephants, snowmobiling up to polar bears in the Arctic, stalking lions with a blanket on his head and letting an amorous female orangutan wash his hair. He enjoys photographing wildlife in its natural habitat, and spends a lot of time tracking and photographing UK species such as Badgers, Hares and Roe Deer. He also travels extensively, and amongst the most challenging of his trips have been those to photograph Tigers in India and Thailand, Grizzly Bears in Alaska, Baby Harp Seals in the Arctic, diving with Humpback Whales in the Caribbean and China for Giant Pandas. Other countries he has travelled to include New Zealand, the US, Canada, Far East, Japan, Alaska and Borneo. Andy has won several awards and in 1998 won the prestigious Animal Behaviour category in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year (picture showed an elephant showering my camera with mud). His work has appeared in a multitude of books, magazines and other publications worldwide, including BBC Wildlife. One of Andy's tiger images is now featuring in the Exxon Pavilion at the Epcot Centre, Florida. He has published two books, one a technical one on how to photograph Mammals in the wild, the other one a zany look at his most daring (and stupid) adventures. His cards are now freely available throughout the country in most Clinton Cards and Woolworths stores. Last year Channel 5 and Discovery showed two TV series on his life, and a third is planned for this year. He has also appeared on Channel 5's "Tiger Tiger" series, Meridian ITV's WildWatch with Chris Packham and has been featured on NBC and interviewed on the Richard and Judy show. Illustrated lectures with bad jokes are also Andy's trademark, and he has lectured to prestigious audiences at the Royal Zoological Society and the Naturalists Dining Club. He enjoys this enormously, particularly when the audiences are chained down behind locked doors. Andy's ambitions are best summed up in his own words "In 20 years time I want see tigers still roaming free on the earth, free from our persecution. I want to see an end to commercial whaling so these great creatures can continue to travel the oceans for all to enjoy." Socially he likes to party hard, eat curry and watch West Ham triumph in the premiership.
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