Geoff Hill, Countryfile Calendar Man

Geoff is the Countryfile Calendar Contributor and Judge. He lives in Segefield, Co. Durham and took his iconic shot of the woodmice in (or near) the wood in Hardwick Park. After his image was chosen for the calendar he was then involved as a jugde and helped to sort through 55 thousand images to get down to 12 for this year. He has taken many fabulous images in Hardwick park to see a few on Youtube click here.

How did I meet him? I was on a guided walk run by Durham County Council and he was the photography expert. They do loads of different types of walk- photography, history, art, and just country walks. The one I was on was a combined photography and history walk around Hardwick Park. It was really good, if a bit cold. The guides were lovely. It started really well. I drew up to the gate with a car full of 5 women and the guy said, 'Hello are you here for the walk?' I said, 'yes'. He said, 'oh good I am the steward'. Someone in the car said, 'hello Stuart'. He then explained his name was Walter and he was the guide ie steward. The rest of the day went on like that. We had a lot of fun.

Bored him to death about blip Tried to persuade him to become a blipper.