A cinematographer whose work has featured in high profile documentary series such as the BBC's Planet Earth has turned his hand to the offshore sector.
David Baillie runs Gateshead-based Wildcat Films and has travelled the world specialising in wildlife filming for a variety of TV programmes - including the aerial footage of Antarctica for the David Attenborough series Frozen Planet. Now, the award-winning creative is hoping to launch a new business providing services to wind farm operators using skills and technologies he has brought together from the world of film.
As one of 10 companies among the latest cohort of the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult's Launch Academy programme, Wildcat is developing environmental surveying services - particularly the observation of birds around proposed and existing wind farms. And Mr Baillie hopes to land grant funding to support the idea.
