My name is Jon and I’m…

Sounds like naive wishful thinking, doesn’t it? Surely that kind of job is just a fantasy that everyone has. But life threw me a game-changing curveball: in 2015 I secured a contract to spend two months on an expedition ship in Antarctica, teaching guests about glaciers and rocks, guiding them on shore, and generally enriching their experience through education.

I thought this would be a brief stint to get the wanderlust out of my system…but it wasn’t to be (cue surprised gasps). I am now a full-time nature guide and lecturer on expedition ships, travelling to some of the world’s most beautiful and remote places and helping my guests interpret and understand what they’re seeing and experiencing.

This website is my way of taking you, dear visitor, along on my journeys and to show you that nature is so much more than just beautiful. It also has fascinating stories to tell to those willing to look - and listen - a little closer. It is also simultaneously more resilient and far more fragile than we would think.

I hope that you enjoy these samples of my photographic work, and that they inspire you to learn about nature as the beautifully complex system it is. And if you’re interested in joining me on a trip, have a look at how you can travel with me!

…well, what am I, really?

I was not one of those kids who already know without any doubt what they want to be when they grow up (aside from an astronaut, naturally).

My interest in nature only started to blossom in my 20s, after a brief flirtation with investment banking which lasted all of three months. Fieldwork on Mont Blanc and a Master’s degree in glaciology started my love affair with the cold regions of our planet. But even so, after graduation I initially headed right back into offices.

Don’t get me wrong: they were wonderful offices with dinosaurs and ice cores and maps that sent my imagination into overdrive, and my job was to talk about incredible science to journalists, politicians and the public. But I longed to be outside, to see, hear and experience faraway lands for myself and to teach people about nature in a more immediate way.