8x25 Min / Format: Digibeta & HD
Funders: RTÉ
Wildlife photography challenge series for well-known Irish personalities
Celebrities have one week to become a wildlife photographer. This third series sees rugby pundit and broadcaster George Hook off to Glenveagh National Park to photograph the magnificent Golden Eagles, singer Johnny Logan goes camping on the islands of Donegal in search of badgers, Newsman Charlie Bird is on the tracks of wild mink on Galway's Lough Corrib, TV Presenter Shauna Lowry chases fallow deer bucks up the mountains in the rutting season, Actress Rosaleen Linehan is up all night getting pictures of elusive barn owls, Retired politician and bookmaker Ivan Yates spends a week cruising the
Shannon photographing dragonflies and actress Sheila McWade is driven nuts trying to photograph very nifty and agile red squirrels. The best photograph sees the winner travel to Yellowstone National Park to photograph wolves in the wild.
Awards:
Finalist - Wildscreen 2006
Finalist - Best Factual Entertainment Series – Irish Film & Television Awards