Hawthorn blossoms on Bonsall Moor in the south-eastern corner of the Peak District. This landscape supports an astonishing variety of wild flowers, some of which are nationally rare, as well as providing a habitat for some unexpected species. The key to Bonsall’s rich biodiversity lies in its location of exposed limestone uplands and sheltered wooded dales. In some locations relic mineral deposits from mining activity in the Middle Ages has encouraged plants tolerant to soils rich in lead, copper and zinc pollution, known as metallophytes, like mountain pansy and spring sandwort.
For thirty years, John has ventured across the world returning with stories of his experiences of the wilderness which few have encountered. He has drunk tea with Thangboche’s High Lama in the Kumbu, collected shells from Pacific beaches, run with wilderbeests in the ancient dusts of Serengeti, hiked to hidden springs of Grand Canyon, encountered walrus’, wolves and streams of caribou in the low islands of Aleutian Alaska. His travels are infused with adventure and wonderment, from Galapagos to the Andes, Namibia, Mongolia and the Amazon Basin. Closer to home, John has photographed almost all wild land locations in Britain, from the windswept tors of Cornwall to white strands of the Outer Hebrides.
As a photographer of wilderness it is the drama of landscape, its biodiversity and wild weather that attracts him most. Major expeditions including seven months spent in Antarctica, a winter in Spitzbergen and an historic four hundred mile traverse of the Greenland Icecap, John's assignments have taken him to some of the wildest lands on Earth.
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