Ammonite's Night Stalkers series is being screened worldwide, here is an episode guide: Night Stalkers: Jaguar Ambush An expert team of night-filming specialists go into the jungles of Costa Ric...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2012/01/night-stalkers-episode-details.html
This is a repost from earlier this year but now we have this Youtube clip from Ammonite's latest film Hunt For The Giant Squid it seems like a good idea to remind you of that magical filming expe...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/12/brilliant-bioluminescence.html
Rob Morgan who worked at Ammonite across the Night Stalkers series and The Hunt For The Giant Squid shares his donuts with Alf the fox. The Ammonite crew are elated and exhausted, FIVE films ...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/10/ammonite-celebrates-squid-delivery.html
Ammonite's film about the Giant Squid is now in the last stages of post-production and will be delivered to National Geographic in time to be show as part of Expedition Week this autumn. Check o...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/09/giant-squid-in-post.html
Ammonite has won the Technical Achievement Award at the Japan Wildlife Film Festival TWICE!! Night of the Lion tied for fist place with City of Ants (the film formally titled Antzilla which wo...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/08/ammonite-gets-double-first-in-japan.html
The open ocean is blue and clear. It is vast. Rick Rosenthal has spent most of his life trying to discover its secrets and it was amazing to free dive with him into the abyss. As part of the �...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/07/meeting-with-mola-mola.html
Rick Rosenthal has just gone back to the US, he was with us in the Azores for two weeks and the experience was incredible. Rick is an oceanographer and a legendary cinematogragrapher. Enthusiasm...
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After the first dip in the water we realised that a wooden cradle that could hold the Guppster out of the water would make life a lot easier than trying to get it in and out of the boat. We a...
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Luis Roque is an Azorean diver, boatman and an artist, he is working with Ammonite on our giant squid challenge and has given the Guppster a proper ocean-going tattoo.
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The Guppster has been through several incarnations, this is MK5 going into the water for the first time we needed to know several things; would it stay upright? could it withstand the curre...
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... and then what? After several nail-biting days when the Giant Cable* appeared to be lost in transit, a lorry turned up and dumped it on our driveway. The next problem was how to shift it som...
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We are in the Atlantic Ocean, on a volcanic pinnacle rising 3000 metres out of the Atlantic Ridge . Apparently we are a long away, but it doesn't feel so, it's the sort of place that feels ve...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/06/where-are-we.html
This was the scene at 4am last Friday morning at Heathrow airport. We have now arrived in the Azores, the 500 metre cable that got lost has finally been delivered and we are in the process of...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/06/ammonites-night-shift.html
Dual colour camera sees dolphins on a dark night, lit only by their bioluminescent wakes Now we’re off to find a giant squid. We’ve been planning and building for almost a year, dreaming ...
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Last week the Southampton Oceanographic Centre appeared to be trying to enter the record books for the amount of people it could squeeze into one of it's small research labs; apart from all th...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-many-filmmakers-fit-in-cupboard.html
James Wright is a budding cameraman(he's the one holding all the mugs in the photo); he offered his services to Ammonite for a few weeks in order to get some relevant work experience before set...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/06/ammonite-endless-tea-party.html
When Martin Dohrn first observed Bioluminescence he knew that he wanted to record and explore this amazing natural phenomenon. Thus began the story of Ammonite's incredible Starlight Cameras. E...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-are-we-so-intersted-in.html
The cable we took to Mexico last month was a baby compared to the one going to the Azores, this super-hi-tech beast weighs more than a pair of beefy men. In order for this monster to trave...
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We have nearly finished another two films in our 'Nightstalkers' series. John Lynch has arrived to record the narration, he whizzed in from London in time for lunch at Ammonite HQ - he is the...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/05/lynch-for-lunch.html
The crew arrived back from Mexico, exhausted and thrilled by the sight of dolphin pods 'lit up like fireworks as they surfed through the bioluminescent ocean'. We are now preparing to go to th...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/05/from-oceans-to-droplets.html
Our Mexican shoot was a difficult one to get off, lots of last-minute engineering and wrestling with cables. Packing took a whole week went on until four hours before setting off to the airport. ...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/05/is-no-news-good-news.html
This is the mechanism that we are using in the ocean to carry our cameras as steadily as possible while we try and film underwater at depth. Many prototypes have been made and tested. You migh...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/05/meet-guppster.html
A single piece of baggage, airline weight restriction = 30kg. A specially commissioned cable full of fibre optics has just arrived. On it's wooden spool it weighs 38kg. John has been tryi...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/weight-loss.html
The man who wins this weeks prize for Most-All-Round-Brilliant-Person currently working at Ammonite is Howard Bourne who discovered this snoozing puma yesterday afternoon while trying out one o...
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Excuse us swerving away from Costa Rica so suddenly but we are very excited about the latest arrival in our workshop. This is a device that will help us find bioluminescent marine animals. It ...
http://ammonitejournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/dome-has-landed.html