A journey there and back again

Bitter and Then Some

WE LIVE TOGETHER NEW YORK Written by James Yeats Smith

I stopped posting photos like these at AllCreatures quite a while ago. A friend alerted me to this article that was highlighted by Ed Yong in his blog at NatGeo Phenomena. These photos are a cottage industry in Asia, specifically in Indonesia. In short, these photos are staged which employ the use of strings, etc. to pose these animals (and are later photoshopped out). These posings may cause injury to these animals and the photographers are misleading people who buy their photographs into thinking this was just a lucky photograph taken with much perseverance (it seems to be the same handful of photographers who seem to capture these ‘lucky’ shots). In short, these photographers are not “wildlife specialists” as the caption above would make you believe. These photos are unethical and cruel to these animals.

Though beautiful, the Catedrales de Marmol are not easy to reach. Adventurers must fly 1287 kilometers (800 miles) from Santiago to the city of Coyhaique, and brave an additional 322 kilometers (200 miles) of dirt roads to reach General Lake Carrera.

see you at animecon yeah !! let ur turban down