Les first came into my life through our mutual love of natural history. On occasion, Les would pass subtle comments about how I fell short in celebrating the lives of his beloved bats in my work. I knew the remedy to this would take significant investment, so I simply accepted his jibes and parked it in the too hard basket. Decades later, Les and his dear life-long colleague Dr Greg Richards, turned up at my front door with a freshly baked chocolate cake and a pair of grins that were hard to resist. Within the hour I had committed to photographing the bats of Australia. I didn’t know it at the time, but this would be a journey that would change my life.