In 2015, Richard Fitzpatrick worked with natural historian David Attenborough. It was a career highlight. “It’s amazing when you see your film for the first time, with his voice and an orchestra behind it,” he says. Fitzpatrick is globally acclaimed for the Barrier Reef nature films he shot for the BBC, National Geographic, Discovery Channel and others. He worked just once on location with the globally renowned naturalist, shooting a series about the Great Barrier Reef.
“What normally happens is, you’ve got your natural history crew and spend a year or two doing all the work,” he explains. “Then [Attenborough] comes in with a separate crew for a week or two, shoots all the links and he’s gone. You don’t get much contact time. But, during the writing [of the series], he was involved quite heavily. His correspondence went backwards and forwards about the
