So what's more cruel. shooting a stuffed animal or dressing up a tiny dog or cat in a balerina outfit then taking pictures and showing the world how your going to have to spend next month's rent taking your tiny dog or cat the the pet psychologist....
Animals in zoo - wildlife or cheating?
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Both are outlandishly disgusting. :-p
Posted 3 years ago # -
noxin said:
tcole1983, it's only cheating if the flowers are killed, stuffed and posed specifically for your shot! unless of course it's only done to shock the viewer.hahaha
Niko, I was reading from the bottom up and almost cried at the raccoon picture before reading it was stuffed.
Treckie, I can see diffraction artifacts from netting in the bokeh of your wolf one, otherwise I wouldn't know. The other two I haven't a clue.
PB PM said:
Both are outlandishly disgusting. :-p+1, although I kind of like the posed taxidermy photos in a strange way (as art, not as wildlife photography, obviously).
Posted 3 years ago # -
Oh I agree, although the last one looks unnatural, and obviously posed.
Posted 3 years ago # -
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OK, so what if you shot the deer and ate the meat then sent the rest to the taxidermist who stuffed it and you then photographed it in a bizarre setting - or perhaps if it was a road casualty and the stuffed skin was photographed at the place it was killed in the accident - does that change your reactions to that shot?
Well, these photos certainly provoked thought and discussion which seems to be what they were supposed to do.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I'm confused by what some of you are asking...
what do you mean "as long as the animals weren't killed for the purpose of the photography" (paraphrasing from a couple of you). Taxidermy is a sizeable business, I really doubt the photographer is going out and finding wild animals that she specifically wants to use in her photos and then gets the killed and stuffed, haha.
that being said I think hunting (for sport) is disgusting.
as to her pictures. I really like the first two. the third looks a bit "ad"ish for me, but it is pretty provocative.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Sandpiper said:
You have some great shots, and I am getting pretty curious about where your local bird sanctuary is. Care to share?It is called the George C Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, located on Westham Island, which a short drive from Vancouver. They have a website (linked below), it is dated, but it works. It is one of many Federally Protected Waterfowl sites in Canada. Only a small portion of the reserve is open to the public.
Posted 3 years ago # -
IMHO, using stuffed animals is very unethical - most likely someone killed those animals in order to make them stuffed, and killing w/o any reasonable reasons (just for fun of having a stuffed animal in living-room) should be prohibited.
btw: nice captures treckie
Posted 3 years ago # -
This picture was taken a split second before the lioness charged. She was not bored, she was in captivity at a wildlife orphanage in Zimbabwe which is owned by a childhood friend of mine.
I nearly jumped out of my skin, even though she was behind a fence.
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jonnyapple said:
hahahaTreckie, I can see diffraction artifacts from netting in the bokeh of your wolf one, otherwise I wouldn't know. The other two I haven't a clue.
The elk was "shot" in the wild, The leopard was taken through glass at the zoo and the wolf was taken through glass at a sanctuary. It was raining when taken.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I Liked that elk shot.. Had another look and I think a wide/pano crop may work as well.. ie remove the top 1/3 (and the bright distracting sky)
Posted 3 years ago # -
I posted the picture of the captive lion above, some time ago.
I just received news that a volunteer at the same animal orphanage was killed by a lion.
http://www.chipangali.com/news?id=9
This report shows, that although we may be lulled into a sense of security by the idea of a captive animal, this notion could not be further from the truth.
Lions (and all other captive animals) are equally if not more dangerous than animals in the wild.
To my mind, they are still "wildlife" and photographing them in zoos etc. whilst much easier, is still legitimate.
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