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View submission: The ugly side of wildlife photography
I went to the wildlife photographer of the year last year at the Natural History Museum in London (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/wpy.html[1]).
1: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/wpy.html
I was disgusted at the number of shots where the photographer baited, or flushed out wildlife. Not to mention the use of a flash array to capture a nighttime predator. Its shocking its even allowed for this competition; then there is also the 8yr olds winning the kids category using $20k worth of gear.
Comment by kylofinn at 18/04/2016 at 13:18 UTC
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days late on this thread but i just went to it and had the exact same thoughts! kids with $$ gear blew my mind but the baiting was unbelievable. one photo baited an animal over 4 months so it could walk into a camera trap with multiple flashes...not sure how you can call that wildlife photography.
Comment by BatMunki at 13/04/2016 at 21:16 UTC
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It is a pisstake looking at those, the little paragraph of info by the side "me and MY DAD went out to a river MY PHOTOGRAPHER DAD set up the camera MY DAD got it into focus yadda yadda ya" it seems like the only thing the bloody kid did was press the shutter