I worked for a venture capital firm. Sometimes my bird photography reminds me of that.
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Now that's the sort of bird photography I'd want to get into.
"Nature is metal" type of shots so I can post it online to give the peacenicks hippie types a heart attack.
If WBCP & PBPF members saw this photo they'd accuse you off staging this photo. From my point of view... who the ****** cares but these nutjobs.
BBC, National Geographic, Discovery, etc stage things all the time to follow a certain narrative. Because without a story how would the audience understand in as simple a manner as possible?
Crazy people with so many hang ups over the most simple of things.
My birding experience taught me to really hate environmentalists. They're a bunch of shyster-like prostitutes desperate for donations even from "evil corporations" and "evil rich people" to fund their "research" to count the birds. The irony and hyprocacy makes it really funny.
They do not have the balls to offend their donors by telling the truth... if you really want to save the environment or the last 5 breeding pair of any animal just have 1 kid at most.
Having a Filipino-sized family means 4 kids or more... which results in more consumer demand for basic physiological needs that is normally extracted from wildlife habitats that are turned into industrial agricultural lands, woodlands turned into lumber yards, mountains turned into quarries for building materials, etc will put more pressure to produce these goods for these up to 85 year long carbon footprints.
"Liberating" your photos for fund raisings and other BS because they be slumming it with their digiscope setups. It's my intellectual property and it is my right to say how it be used regardless of the moral and ethinical ideas they try to impose on the photographer.
This is also one point I learned from starting birding at under 30... if you want to start a family do that instead of birding. The CIPA market research for bird & wildlife photography points to retirees mostly doing this activity. Looking back I agree with them.