Adrian is a photographer and author who has lived in Costa Rica since 1993.


Born in Lichfield, UK, Adrian graduated in Zoology from the University of Bristol, England, in 1991 and then travelled extensively in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand before arriving in Costa Rica.

Since 1996 Adrian has worked as a professional, freelance wildlife photographer. He is the author of two bestselling photography books that showcase the wildlife and landscapes of Costa Rica (see Books in the menu above).

Adrian has twice been a winner in the BBC / Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition and his images appear regularly in national and international publications and advertisements.

He lives in Costa Rica with his wife and children.

To complete this second edition of my book I traveled to 23 different protected areas over a period of several years and photographed many aspects of animal behavior that I had never previously recorded. Some images--including a tapir crossing a stream, a hummingbird feeding in the rain, and a baby turtle scuttling across a pebbly beach--were ones I purposefully set out to get, and it was with great satisfaction that I was able to turn the preconception into reality. Other images, on the other hand, were the result of those surprise encounters that make this work even more exciting, including seeing a crested caracara hauling an egret across a lagoon, a toad fighting to escape the jaws of a parrot snake, and a puma staring down at me from a branch above a trail.

My search for wild animals took me to enchanting and remote landscapes that few people ever see. I hiked the flank of Tenorio Volcano, where a river of turquoise water runs through the rainforest, marched through Curú Wildlife Refuge in darkness to photograph pelicans gliding past an isolated beach at sunrise, and reconnoitered the ocean between Caño Island and the Osa Peninsula in search of humpback whales. The work could not have been more rewarding.