The winners of the internationally acclaimed Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition were announced at a gala awards ceremony at the Natural History Museum in London on 17th October 2012. If anyone would like to have a giggle………….this is my BBC Worldwide TV debut. The little polar bear is now famous. You can see which side of the camera I belong!! The challenge in the “World in our Hands” category is to……..

A few weeks back I had a lovely sunny Saturday evening “messing” about on the river in the name of “work”.  The photoshoot was to record one of the most important milestones of the Forth Replacement Crossing: the arrival on-site of the cylindrical caissons which will help form the main foundations for two of the bridge’s three towers.     I couldn’t help breathing in as the caissons “slid” underneath the Forth Road Bridge without any……..

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Phew!! This was a photo assignment that could have gone wrong very easily…….Beamer Rock had to be blasted to prepare for the Forth Replacement Crossing foundations. The blast was scheduled for the previous day and a handful of boats floated about for FIVE hours waiting for a couple of grey seals to move off the rock. They are curious animals and not surprisingly found all the activity very interesting……Acoustic monitoring is employed by FCBC  to……..

FCBC Environmental Manager, Neil Abraham, tells pupils from Echline Primary School in South Queensferry about the geology of the seabed beneath the waters of the Forth Estuary. The kids are fascinated by Neil’s talk and have lots of probing questions about the rocks and minerals they can examine for themselves.  ……..