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CBS 60 Minutes - Sunday 19th April, 7PM ET

Tonight Martyn features on CBS’s 60 Minutes. The heart of the story will explore his collaboration with fromer Police drummer, and composer @stewart_copeland and then delve deeper into his story of recording the nature sounds that inspired this collaboration.

We at The Listener and the Painted Wolf team were very happy to be asked to provide some short assemblies from our feature doc about Martyn to help illustrate the piece.

For our American friends - please be sure to tune in tonight.

Images courtesy of CBS 60 Minutes.

@mijdog
@paintedwolfpictures
@mattaeberhard
@the_listening_planet
@cockroach

CBS 60 Minutes - Sunday 19th April, 7PM ET

Tonight Martyn features on CBS’s 60 Minutes. The heart of the story will explore his collaboration with fromer Police drummer, and composer @stewart_copeland and then delve deeper into his story of recording the nature sounds that inspired this collaboration.

We at The Listener and the Painted Wolf team were very happy to be asked to provide some short assemblies from our feature doc about Martyn to help illustrate the piece.

For our American friends - please be sure to tune in tonight.

Images courtesy of CBS 60 Minutes.

@mijdog
@paintedwolfpictures
@mattaeberhard
@the_listening_planet
@cockroach

CBS 60 Minutes - Sunday 19th April, 7PM ET

Tonight Martyn features on CBS’s 60 Minutes. The heart of the story will explore his collaboration with fromer Police drummer, and composer @stewart_copeland and then delve deeper into his story of recording the nature sounds that inspired this collaboration.

We at The Listener and the Painted Wolf team were very happy to be asked to provide some short assemblies from our feature doc about Martyn to help illustrate the piece.

For our American friends - please be sure to tune in tonight.

Images courtesy of CBS 60 Minutes.

@mijdog
@paintedwolfpictures
@mattaeberhard
@the_listening_planet
@cockroach

CBS 60 Minutes - Sunday 19th April, 7PM ET

Tonight Martyn features on CBS’s 60 Minutes. The heart of the story will explore his collaboration with fromer Police drummer, and composer @stewart_copeland and then delve deeper into his story of recording the nature sounds that inspired this collaboration.

We at The Listener and the Painted Wolf team were very happy to be asked to provide some short assemblies from our feature doc about Martyn to help illustrate the piece.

For our American friends - please be sure to tune in tonight.

Images courtesy of CBS 60 Minutes.

@mijdog
@paintedwolfpictures
@mattaeberhard
@the_listening_planet
@cockroach

Eden Project, phone snaps.

Eden Project, phone snaps.

Eden Project, phone snaps.

Eden Project, phone snaps.

Eden Project, phone snaps.

Eden Project, phone snaps.

Eden Project, phone snaps.

Eden Project, phone snaps.

Eden Project, phone snaps.

Eden Project, phone snaps.

GOOD NEWS STORY: A local farmer who owns land around where my parents live has slowly been improving his land for nature over 35 years I have known this place.

This pond is just the latest in many concessions he is actively making for wildlife. Life is coming back, diversity is going up, the soundscape is becoming richer and local walks more enjoyable.

Always great to see how personal passion can drive real positive change. My little boy can now see more here than when I was a child.

NB Bird count from a gentle 2 hour stroll over just two miles of fields, and streams, thickets and small tree stands amidst agricultural land.

Count submitted on Cornell Lab of Ornithology eBird app. @team_ebird @cornellbirds @merlin.bird.id @rspb @somersetwt @btobirds

FIELD DIARIES, Loch Arklet

As a filmmaker every shot has a different story, some come as a result of meticulous planning, years of research and preparation to be in the right place at the right time to capture a very specific animal behaviour. Others are those spur of the moment, spontaneous and unplanned moments - when conditions just come together perfectly and you react (e.g. my last post with the snowy river). Others are a mixture of different factors.

This particular day of filming, Martyn had asked if he could return to Queen Elisabeth Forest Park on the shores of Loch Lomond, where he had recorded many years previously. This was music to my ears, because I had grown up walking the forests and glens of the Trossachs. This is where I have returned to throughout my life, so going with Martyn, Amanda and Matt felt like a pilgrimage of sorts. I know these roads like the back of my hand, every little loch, every lay-by, the views to be had, the atmospheres they evoke. So whilst Martyn’s audio boxes were doing their thing in the forest, I took the team down one of the backroads that led to this lonely little loch.

I can’t count how many times I have pulled up here over the decades. This first photo is from 5 years ago - when I first took my son to Scotland. It was summer and the midges are always horrible here, which I like because it means people don’t bother me. So this just one of those views that is etched deeply into my emotional attachment to the landscape.

Arriving here in the depth of winter with my crew snow dusted the peaks, and the cold seemed to even crisp up the sound. Matt and I stood back and just let Martyn and Amanda wander and observe. It was clearly a pilgrimage for them too. Martyn showing Amanda his beloved Scotland, suddenly all his stories of the landscape and sounds had a tangible anchor. This little spot evoked the awe I had hoped for, and the scene played out just as I had hoped. We didn’t need action, or cuts. Martyn and Amanda just listened together and it was beautiful.

📷 @cockroach Loch Arklet 2021 (1) and 2025 (2)

Team: @mijdog @amandahill114 @mattaeberhard @kirstiep30 @ellenwindemuth @brianskerry @shawdavide

FIELD DIARIES, Loch Arklet

As a filmmaker every shot has a different story, some come as a result of meticulous planning, years of research and preparation to be in the right place at the right time to capture a very specific animal behaviour. Others are those spur of the moment, spontaneous and unplanned moments - when conditions just come together perfectly and you react (e.g. my last post with the snowy river). Others are a mixture of different factors.

This particular day of filming, Martyn had asked if he could return to Queen Elisabeth Forest Park on the shores of Loch Lomond, where he had recorded many years previously. This was music to my ears, because I had grown up walking the forests and glens of the Trossachs. This is where I have returned to throughout my life, so going with Martyn, Amanda and Matt felt like a pilgrimage of sorts. I know these roads like the back of my hand, every little loch, every lay-by, the views to be had, the atmospheres they evoke. So whilst Martyn’s audio boxes were doing their thing in the forest, I took the team down one of the backroads that led to this lonely little loch.

I can’t count how many times I have pulled up here over the decades. This first photo is from 5 years ago - when I first took my son to Scotland. It was summer and the midges are always horrible here, which I like because it means people don’t bother me. So this just one of those views that is etched deeply into my emotional attachment to the landscape.

Arriving here in the depth of winter with my crew snow dusted the peaks, and the cold seemed to even crisp up the sound. Matt and I stood back and just let Martyn and Amanda wander and observe. It was clearly a pilgrimage for them too. Martyn showing Amanda his beloved Scotland, suddenly all his stories of the landscape and sounds had a tangible anchor. This little spot evoked the awe I had hoped for, and the scene played out just as I had hoped. We didn’t need action, or cuts. Martyn and Amanda just listened together and it was beautiful.

📷 @cockroach Loch Arklet 2021 (1) and 2025 (2)

Team: @mijdog @amandahill114 @mattaeberhard @kirstiep30 @ellenwindemuth @brianskerry @shawdavide

FIELD DIARIES, Abhainn Mhoireastain. Matt and I were fully packed down, camera kit disassembled and flight-ready, travelling to the airport down some fairly treacherous roads piled high with snow. We rounded a corner and drove past this hidden glimpse of a view. We came to a slow stop, both looked at each other and immediately jumped out of the car to start pulling out packing boxes to quickly rig a serviceable camera setup. I’m not sure if we even had a discussion. We both just knew we had to capture this little moment of beauty.

As I get to know Martyn’s incredible sound archive better and better it changes the way I edit and it informs the way we shoot. We are shooting for sound, and in this moment we were painting the picture that Martyn’s recordings had already captured in intricate detail. The babbling water, and deep liquid bubbling, the sliding of snow on the thickly clad branches, the bounce of sound, slightly muffled from the wood, the caws of a hooded crow, and the distant chattering of a flock of redwings. The cold was biting, but the serene beauty of the scene warmed the soul.

We only got a couple of shots, but that is what it is like when you chase ephemeral moments like this. The light lasted only minutes. And then we were packing down fast and back on the road. We made the flight. Just.

Diary from filming for @thelistenermovie

📷 @cockroach Abhainn Mhoireastain, Jan 2025

Team:
@cockroach @mijdog @mattaeberhard @amandahill114 @kirstiep30 @ellenwindemuth @brianskerry @shawdavide @the_listening_planet @thelistenermovie

Shout out to our friend @thatpeterhall for this beautiful track. Whilst we’re clearly not in the Arctic here it was the wilds of Scotland that set Martyn on his path to the Arctic - a path we plan to retrace this year for @thelistenermovie

FIELD DIARIES, Beinn Fhada, Gearr Aonach, and Aonach Dubh - The Three Sisters of Glencoe. One of my favourite places in the world, and one I have returned to again and again, for longer than I can remember. But this day was special. Our team had been enveloped in thick mists up on Rannoch Moor wandering through the wilds with Robert Shields, as Martyn discussed with him the old recordings that are woven throughout their transportive collaboration for Imperfect Cadence (ONR). Descending through the mists we reached the sisters, and an icy wind blasted through the valley. Despite this Robert, played multiple takes without complaint. And, although I was busy with 2nd camera, I was not immune to the magic of the song, the voice, the meaning, the location, the light - all coming together in a very special moment in time. A moment that will infuse The Listener with this same magic.

📷Diary from filming for @thelistenermovie

📷 @cockroach The Three Sisters of Glencoe, Jan 2025

Team:
@cockroach @mijdog @mattaeberhard @amandahill114 @kirstiep30 @ellenwindemuth @brianskerry @shawdavide @the_listening_planet @thelistenermovie

Huge thank you to @onrhq for being a part of this incredible story. For those of you who haven’t heard it yet - check out Imperfect Cadence wherever you get your music.

It was the end of a long, frigid day up on the cliffs searching for a once lost voice, now returned to the crags and waves.

It had already been a magical day, soundtracked by crashing waves far below, calling seabirds, the creaking of a rusty gate in the wind, and the crunch of footsteps in the crisp snow. I even saw a humpback blow in the thin line of sun reflecting on the sea.

Just as the light was failing we turned to the Old Man of Storr to see how the light would fall on this iconic skyline. The air was turning colder by the second, and snow began to fall gently. I witnessed something I’d never seen before. The loch must have been the perfect temperature because as the snow fell, ice immediately began to seed from where it landed. Five minutes after I took the photo the reflections were gone as ice covered the entire loch.

A rare bit of magic that comes from spending long hours in the cold. There are often surprising rewards for time in the field. The anticipation of the unexpected can help stave off the cold.

Diary from filming for @thelistenermovie

📷 @cockroach Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Jan 2025

Team:
@cockroach @mijdog @mattaeberhard @amandahill114 @kirstiep30 @ellenwindemuth @brianskerry @shawdavide @the_listening_planet @thelistenermovie

Shout out to friend of TLP and Painted Wolf - @aliceboydmusic and this beautiful ode to her friendship with Martyn @mijdog

Let it snow! Part #2
Throwback to January 2025 on shoot 2 for @thelistenermovie in the wild winter wonderland of the Isle of Skye. Scotland sits at the very heart of this film - the place that young boy from Birmingham first experienced wilderness. Take a look at our first post to see and hear a little taste of the magic we captured on those freezing yet heart-warming days.

The Listener - A Life In Sound - chronicles the life of nature sound recordist Martyn Stewart OBE @mijdog - but it is more than one man’s life story. Martyn bears witness to a fast changing world - recording every step of the way for 60 years, over 60 countries - in which time 75% of wildlife vanished from our planet. But it is not all doom and gloom - far from it - in fact we were in Skye on a very special mission. We were on the trail of a voice that had returned to these wild crags and seas.

We must remember that it is not too late to turn the tide. But we need to start listening to what nature is telling us.

📷 @cockroach Snowstorm #2, Isle of Skye, Jan 2025

Team:
@cockroach @mijdog @mattaeberhard @amandahill114 @kirstiep30 @ellenwindemuth @brianskerry @shawdavide @the_listening_planet @thelistenermovie

Shout out to friend of TLP and Painted Wolf - @jennysturgeonmusic for this track that sits so beautifully on this image.

Let it snow!
Throwback to January 2025 on shoot 2 for @thelistenermovie in the wild winter wonderland of the Isle of Skye. Scotland sits at the very heart of this film - the place that young boy from Birmingham first experienced wilderness. Take a look at our first post to see and hear a little taste of the magic we captured on those freezing yet heart-warming days.

The Listener - A Life In Sound - chronicles the life of nature sound recordist Martyn Stewart OBE @mijdog - but it is more than one man’s life story. Martyn bears witness to a fast changing world - recording every step of the way for 60 years, over 60 countries - in which time 75% of wildlife vanished from our planet. But it is not all doom and gloom - far from it - in fact we were in Skye on a very special mission. We were on the trail of a voice that had returned to these wild crags and seas.

We must remember that it is not too late to turn the tide. But we need to start listening to what nature is telling us.

📷 @cockroach Snowstorm, Isle of Skye, Jan 2025

Team:
@cockroach @mijdog @mattaeberhard @amandahill114 @kirstiep30 @ellenwindemuth @brianskerry @shawdavide @the_listening_planet @thelistenermovie

Welcome to Painted Wolf Pictures. We are a collective of highly skilled and passionate filmmakers and cinematographers with a shared love for creating meaningful and emotionally resonant films. We are all looking to make a real and positive difference for the natural world that has given us so much.

Each one of us brings many years of knowledge across a broad spectrum of filmmaking from classic BBC landmark natural history series to Hollywood feature films. Our experience includes observational documentary, cinematic feature docs, one off specials and series. Our team has a deep knowledge of CGI, VFX and Animation workflows, as well as shooting backplates for series and feature films. Like Painted Wolves we are strong as individuals, but unstoppable as a pack.

Each member has a broad knowledge and experience base, but also brings certain expert specialisms. These include ornithology, canids, big cats, dinosaurs, palaeontology, anthropology, and those unique intimate insights into more specific areas like birds of paradise, orangutans, musk ox, badgers, chipmunks, polar bears, bobcats, jumping spiders, and of course the painted wolf, to name but a few.

We have a cinematic feature doc in production right now - The Listener - A Life in Sound, but we also have other projects brewing. Our team is available for individual freelance hire, or you can hire us as a fully functioning pack, from fieldwork to full production. Specialist consultancy from technology, cameras to behaviour and R&D all fall withinin our wheelhouse. We keep our overheads low so we can deliver big.

More to come, but that’s it for now.

📷 @cockroach Painted Wolves of Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools.

Team: @cockroach @kirstiep30 @mattaeberhard @rolf_steinmann @stewartpauld @tetzoo @jinnynijjar

Autumn Walk 🍂

All motion captured in camera.

Shout out to my friends @thatpeterhall and @mijdog and @the_listening_planet for this beautiful track.

#iphone #autumncolours #fallcolors #trees #treesofinstagram #landscape #abstractlandscape #sundayfunday

Autumn Walk 🍂

All motion captured in camera.

Shout out to my friends @thatpeterhall and @mijdog and @the_listening_planet for this beautiful track.

#iphone #autumncolours #fallcolors #trees #treesofinstagram #landscape #abstractlandscape #sundayfunday