

"He still is! He inspired me to want to follow a career as a wildlife filmmaker and photographer and to get to work with him for 11 years on these series was really a dream come true. "As a child, my hero was David Attenborough," says Sue, who lives in Gwynedd on the edge of the Snowdonia National Park. The third and final instalment of the award-winning BBC show will air later this year, with millions of fans expected to tune in.
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Her work as a photographer takes her all over the world but she has a special passion for the wildlife and icy beauty of the Polar regions and is one of the very few women professional photographers who returns again and again to Earth’s harshest and most demanding environments.īut it was her work with Sir David that has definitely been a highlight and she has some kind words for the national treasure who is set to return to TV screens once more to present the last series in Planet Earth trilogy. A dream come true!," says Sue as she made her way back from her 11th visit to the North Pole. "I had the opportunity to photograph on location as part of my job as researcher then Assistant producer and had the opportunity to work on the Frozen Seas episode of The Blue Planet. Her "dream came true" when after studying zoology at Durham University, she landed a job at the BBC Natural History Unit, where she got to work on award-winning series The Blue Planet.


Those documentaries that Sue remembers "avidly" watching as a child with her family in north Wales were her first exposure to the polar regions and where her passion for the area comes from. It was David Attenborough who fuelled award-winning photographer Sue Flood's love of wildlife documentaries, so it was fitting that in her career she got to work with him for more than a decade.
