Lindsay McCrae

Lindsay McCrae is an award winning television wildlife camera operator and photographer.

Lindsay's passion for wildlife began at an early age. Growing up in the rural Lake District in the north of England, Lindsay has been captivated by all aspects of the natural world since he can remember. At school he built wildlife ponds and gardens, while mornings, evenings and even lunchtimes were spent exploring any green space he could find.

During Lindsays early teens, a family of badgers near his home became the main focus, and camped out every night just metres from their sett entrance hidden under camouflage Lindsay would be surrounded by cubs frolicking in carpets of bluebells. Watching wildlife became an obsession.

His passion soon turned into a need to capture what he was seeing on film. He took out a loan from his mother and invested in his own camera at the age of 15 and never looked back.

Lindsay has been filming wildlife professionally for over 10 years and has travelled all over the UK and across the world filming everything from wolves in deep Alaska, to orangutans in the Indonesian jungle. In 2017 for almost an entire year, Lindsay lived in Antarctica isolated from the rest of the world, documenting the lives of a colony of emperor penguins.

When not abroad observing or photographing the natural world, Lindsays other obsessions include road cycling, fly fishing and bread making. Living with his wife Becky and two boys, a pair of extremely energetic cocker spaniels, Willow and Ivy, keep him busy when back at home.