Doug Allan.

Doug Allan is a freelance wildlife and documentary cameraman who films both topside and underwater. His equipment includes RED Weapon 4K, Sony PMW 200 and Canon stills cameras with housings and various lenses for all of them.

Born in 1951 in Scotland, he graduated with an honors degree in marine biology from Stirling University in 1973. For the next three years he worked on a wide range of diving jobs, including searching for freshwater pearls in the rivers of Scotland, underwater video work and rebuilding canals in Germany, and assisting with research on marine biological expeditions with Cambridge University in the Red Sea. In 1976, he worked as a research diver on the British Antarctic Survey station in the South Orkneys, where he worked on and off for several years.

Doug’s footage was used in BBC documentaries, including The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Life, Human Planet and Expedition Iceberg, among others. Doug was the first person to film orcas attacking gray whales off California, polar bears trying to capture belugas in a frozen hole in Arctic Canada and killer whales washing seals off ice floes in Antarctica. Alongside his camera work, Doug has made contributions to radio and literature in the form of audio diaries, articles and photographic collections.