I’m guessing that like many photographers, I’m revisiting my back catalogue during these long Covid enforced lay-offs from shooting new subjects. I usually only work up two images (at the most) from any shoot, so I still have quite a bit of choice left. I’ve just moved on to looking through the shots I took of the crocodile in the mangrove swamps of Cuba in August 2019.

As I look through the images I’m taken straight back there. It was an amazing trip because before boarding the liveaboard boat for a weeks diving in the Gardens of Queen marine sanctuary we spent three days in the Cuban capital, Havana. If you ever get the chance to go to Havana please take it up, it’s a photographers dream - there’s literally an image on every street corner.

Anyway, back to the croc… it took us two days to find a suitable subject; not too big, not too small & not too aggressive. This male was perfect and he was happy to model for me for over an hour. I was terrified, I’ll admit that. Looking at the shots I can still remember just how much I had to keep talking to myself to stay calm.

If you’d like to see a video of the shoot you can do that here - https://youtu.be/u7jhdAs56Ik

Let’s see if I can find a couple more shots to work up to make it all worthwhile… I’m hopeful :-)