normsmith wrote:
As a Wildlife Biologist for my entire career, I have seen it all and none of it bothers me much. I sometimes feel a little empathy for a prey animal being torn apart in it's final throes. I also dislike seeing a predator expending a lot of energy in pursuit and fail. I wonder if its offspring will go hungry for the night or maybe perish.
I think you did a nice job in your presentation.
Norm
Thanks so much Norm for your perspective which I completely agree with. I have only once felt a twinge for an animal being preyed upon and that was watching a cheetah cub on a hunting lesson spend an hour with a Tompson Gazelle fawn....you do get attached sometimes but after all when there are at least a million gazelles and only 2500-5000 cheetahs how can you not root for the predator.
Eric
dorian wrote:
yeah eric, whenever the animal is a staring into space like in shot #1, the viewer needs to use his imagination to think about at what the subject might be looking. shot #2 does tell a good story though!
dorian
Thanks for the comment Dorian...I agree that each has its own merit and am happy that many here do not find the second overly gruesome or offensive.
Eric
I don't mind graphic images, even though I can do w/o
Having said so it is the first pic that has more connection to me. It is more about who took the picture and has a more symbolic emotional content , IMO. The second shot is more a documentary representation of a scene and even if it has its own impact it is not about the photographer or his emotions.
Socrate
ScottHM wrote:
Nice shot Eric...a little cropping certainly goes a long way in changing the emotions of a scene. I do like the second one better, I think when it comes to wildlife shots a little bit graphic shows the true nature of the animal and it's world.
+1. Nature is more than pretty pix. I like seeing the real thing
Ted