Will Burrard-Lucas
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Will Burrard-Lucas | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Education | Imperial College London, MSci Physics (2006) |
| Occupation | Wildlife Photographer |
| Website | www.willbl.com |
Will Burrard-Lucas (born September, 1983), is a British wildlife photographer and entrepreneur. He is best known for developing devices, such as BeetleCam and high-quality camera traps, which enable him to capture close-up photographs of wildlife.
Career
Will has been a full-time wildlife photographer since 2010. Previously, he worked for a Big Four accounting firm in London, UK.[1]
Will is active on several social platforms including Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (with over a million followers).[2]
Will works with various conservation NGOs including WWF[3], African Parks[4] and The Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme.[5]
Inventions
In 2009, Will created BeetleCam, a remote-control camera buggy, and used it to take close-up photographs of elephants, lions and buffalo in Tanzania.[6] In 2011, he returned to Africa to photograph lions in Kenya.[7] He has since used BeetleCam to photograph wildlife in other African countries, including leopards in Zambia[8] and African wild dogs in Zimbabwe.[9] In 2015, Will used BeetleCam to photograph wildlife at night in Liuwa Plain National Park in Zambia.[10] This series went on to win the Professional Natural World Category in the Sony World Photography Awards.[11]
While living in Zambia in 2012-13, Will also developed high-quality camera traps for photographing rare and nocturnal animals.[12] These camera traps were based on a passive infrared sensor and took photos using a standard DSLR or mirrorless camera.[13] In 2015, his work with camera traps led to a collaboration with WWF to photograph elusive animals in Namibia.[14]
In 2014, Will founded a company, Camtraptions Ltd, which produces BeetleCams and professional camera trap systems for photographers and filmmakers.[15]
Ethiopian Wolf Project
In 2011, Will collaborated with Rebecca Jackrel, a nature photographer from the USA, to document endangered Ethiopian wolves in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia. The project was funded via a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised $13,705.[16] The photographers spent more than a month documenting the lives of the wolves and the work of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme.[17] The project culminated in a book titled “The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction”.[18]
Publications
- The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction (ISBN 978-0981581316 / Published 2013)
- Top Wildlife Sites of the World (ISBN 978-1921517594 / Published 2015)
Early life
Will was born in the UK and spent part of his childhood living in Tanzania. It was during this time that he first became interested in wildlife and nature.[19] He attended Sevenoaks School in Kent[20] before going on to study Physics at Imperial College London.[21]
References
- ^ http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/brothers-zoom-in-on-the-beauty-of-wild-animals-1-1064567
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/BLphotography
- ^ http://time.com/4213940/wwf-african-animal-pictures/
- ^ http://mymodernmet.com/will-burrad-lucas-african-wildlife-beetlecam/
- ^ http://www.ethiopianwolf.org/help
- ^ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/photogalleries/100427-lion-steals-camera-remote-science-pictures/
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-17293563/a-beetlecam-s-view-of-wild-lions-in-the-masai-mara
- ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252422/Will-Burrard-Lucas-Caught-BeetleCam-Lions-elephants-buffalo-pictured-ingenious-crawling-camera-African-savannah.html
- ^ http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/wpy/community/blog/index.html?blogPostId=4261
- ^ https://qz.com/720198/photos-african-lions-and-hyenas-captured-by-a-robot-camera-under-the-milky-way/
- ^ http://www.rps.org/news/2017/april/uk-photographer-wins-swpa-2017-professional-natural-world-category
- ^ http://blog.burrard-lucas.com/2014/12/camera-trap-photography/
- ^ https://petapixel.com/2017/06/12/camtraptions-unveils-new-pir-motion-sensor-wildlife-camera-trapping/
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/28/science/trap-camera-photos.html?mcubz=0
- ^ https://www.dpreview.com/news/3972851945/camtraptions-launches-pir-motion-sensor
- ^ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1583009263/ethiopian-wolf-documentary-project
- ^ http://www.discoverwildlife.com/gallery/ethiopian-wolf-photo-gallery-will-burrard-lucas-and-rebecca-jackrel
- ^ http://www.ethiopianwolf.org/help
- ^ http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/technique/interviews/wild-at-heart-will-burrard-lucas-98378
- ^ http://osonline.sevenoaksschool.org/#noteworthyos
- ^ http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/brothers-zoom-in-on-the-beauty-of-wild-animals-1-1064567
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