Today (29th July) is International Tiger day! The point of this day is not to raise money (although that is nice), but to raise awareness! So, celebrate your tiger shots, share them and share the awareness!
Shelley Lake is an extremely talented photographer (www.ShelleyLake.com), but more-over she is a Chiropractor! So when she posted tips for holding and shooting, we should all take note... Great images and no personal damage... Shelley, our backs thank you! :)
Early this month I posted about a decree by the French ecology and agriculture ministry addressing the concerns of farmers and resulted in relaxed hunting laws for wolfs and increasing the number that could be killed this coming season. The news is not getting any better, with the french government landing on the side of livestocks. [LPO reports]
Thankfully, I have never seen any real conflict, but I have seen many animals on the state highways around and running through national parks.
A recent paper by Brewin et al. 2015 in PLOS looks at "the Potential of Surfers to Monitor Environmental Indicators in the Coastal Zone". In short, they demonstrated that by using the abundant surfer population in the south west United Kingdom (UK), they could generate ~40 million data points per year, overcoming the current inadequate sampling methods. This data would be invaluable for costal monitoring and management.
Want to try macro photography, but don't have the cash... well here is an option!
Macro photography is fun... but a good macro lens is expensive (as all good lenses are). So if you want to try it, but don't have the cash to do it... just flip your standard lens around... no, i'm not kidding!
Infra-red flash reveals the panthers spots!