Even For An Area I Know Well,

A Large Wildlife Book, Start To Finish, Could Take One To Two Years, But Then I Would Expect To Get Several Good (nature) Magazine Features Off The Back Of This, Plus Of Course A Lot Of Stock.

The Kalahari Is Brilliant - And Easy To Visit.

In The States I Would Have No Edge, No Advantage At All.

For The First Few Years We Lived In A Tiny Rented Cottage At The Bottom Of A Friend's Garden. We Often Joked That There Was Plenty Of Film In The Fridge, But Not Too Much Food!

I Carry A Notebook Full Of Sketches Of Pictures I Want To Take - They Are Really Scruffy Sketches, But At Least I Am Going Out There With A Clear Objective.