Bob W wrote:
The story the photographer gave, as I recall from when I first saw the
photo, is that this was routine behaviour of the wolf which he had witnessed
many times. Accordingly he set up specially for it. He didn't just happen to
be walking by with all his gear and suddenly see a wolf jump over the fence.
This is no different to the way other wildlife photographers work, such as
Eric Hosking with his owls.
Bob
I have no issue with habituated wild-living animals. I feed birds to
get them close in and to get them used to seeing me around and then I
create little natural looking perches for them to use while waiting to
feed. The issue I have with this photographer is that he used a
trained, captive animal (if the allegations are true; and he is not
denying them in all accounts I've read he is 'unavailable for comment').
If I shoot captive birds and display those photographs to people, I
mention they are captive and I wouldn't enter them into a wildlife
contest that has rules against using captive animals. It's fraud.
--
Christian
http://404mohawknotfound.blogspot.com/
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