On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:28 -0500, "Christian" <christ...@skofteland.net> wrote: > Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > Stripped of the award he won, that is: > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8470962.stm > > > > While in Sydney I saw the exhibition and the photo in question at the > Australian Museum. Next to this photo was a news article about the > controversy and questions about whether it would be disqualified. I'm > happy to see it disqualified and the photographer being banned for life > from the competition. He's gonna have a real hard time entering any > competitions and restoring his credibility. The sad part is that there > were some other really really great photos there that could have won the > top honors. >
Well, I dunno. I know nothing of Mr Rodriguez and whether he has a track record in this sort of thing but life banning seems a bit harsh. >From the information I've seen the judges can't know for certain that the wolf was a 'model' as they seem to have based their ruling on examination of photos only. What do the owners of the wolf have to say? I agree that life banning is appropriate if there is proof that he cheated but I haven't seen that proof. Of course, Mr Rodriguez might come out of this OK on the basis of any publicity is good publicity..... I haven't seen the exhibition yet but I'll try to get down to the Aust Museum later today. It will be interesting to see if the photo has been removed. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > -- > > Christian > http://404mohawknotfound.blogspot.com/ > > -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
