Jonathan and Angie Scott

Jonathan and Angie Scott are fortunate to share a love of wild places, they have spent many happy years at Kichwa Tembo tented camp in the Mara Triangle, pursuing their passion for wildlife photography. It is the Masai Mara in western Kenya - a five hours drive from Jonathan and Angie's home in Nairobi - that calls them back again and again. Big cats have been the focus of much of Jonathan and Angie's work, as their many books and photo essays attest. Big Cat Diary, the BBC/Animal Planet television programme that Jonathan co-presents, and for which Angie acts as spotter and stills photographer, has provided them with some incredible big cat experiences. At these times their Toyota Landcruiser is their home, packed with supplies of food, film, vehicle spares, cameras - and laptop computers so they can write in the bush.

Jonathan and Angie are currently working on three books, individual titles on lions, leopards and cheetahs to accompany the next series of Big Cat Diary, which was first shown in 1996 and has just finished filming a fifth series. In a recent poll of television viewers in the UK, the big cats where voted the nations' favourite wild animals. So it is hardly surprising that most people on safari spend up to 80% of their time either looking for or watching big cats. But it isn't just the big creatures that attract Jonathan and Angie to the African bush. They like to photograph the birds - and there are over 500 species in the Mara alone - the flowers, insects - all of life in fact. And two of their most popular books are Jonathan Scott's Safari Guides to East African Birds and Animals, revised and updated by Angie.

Jonathan & Angie Scott will be speaking on the evening of the 2nd April about the "Masai Mara" and will be hosting workshops on "Wildlife Photography" before lunch and "The Big Cat Diary" after lunch on the 5th April

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