Burrard-Lucas has been a full-time wildlife photographer since 2010. Previously, he worked for a
Big Four accounting firm in
London. Burrard-Lucas works with various conservation
NGOs including
WWF,
African Parks and The Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme.
Inventions In 2009, Burrard-Lucas created
BeetleCam, a remote-control camera buggy, and used it to take close-up photographs of
elephants,
lions and
buffalo in
Tanzania. In 2011, he returned to Africa to photograph lions in
Kenya. He has since used BeetleCam to photograph wildlife in other African countries, including
leopards in
Zambia and
African wild dogs in
Zimbabwe. In 2015, Burrard-Lucas used BeetleCam to photograph wildlife at night in
Liuwa Plain National Park in Zambia. This series went on to win the Professional Natural World Category in the
Sony World Photography Awards. While living in Zambia in 2012–2013, Burrard-Lucas also developed high-quality
camera traps for photographing rare and nocturnal animals. These camera traps were based on a
passive infrared sensor and took photos using a standard
DSLR or
mirrorless camera. In 2015, his work with camera traps led to a collaboration with
WWF to photograph elusive animals in
Namibia. In 2014, Burrard-Lucas founded a company, Camtraptions Ltd, which produces BeetleCams and camera trap systems for photographers and filmmakers. In July 2019, Burrard-Lucas announced his intentions to take two new versions of BeetleCam back to the African continent in search of lions for a new project.
Ethiopian Wolf Project In 2011, Burrard-Lucas collaborated with Rebecca Jackrel, a nature photographer from the US, to document endangered
Ethiopian wolves in the
Bale Mountains of
Ethiopia. The project was funded via a successful
Kickstarter campaign which raised $13,705. The photographers spent more than a month documenting the lives of the wolves and the work of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme. The project culminated in a book titled
The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction. The project resulted in a book, titled
Land of Giants, which was published in 2019.
Melanistic African Leopard In February 2019, Burrard-Lucas captured the first high-quality camera trap photographs of a
melanistic African leopard, also known as a
black panther, in
Laikipia Wilderness Camp in Kenya. Previously, only one such leopard had been photographed in Africa, in 1909 in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The project resulted in a book, titled
The Black Leopard, published in 2021. == Awards ==