BBC's nature photo competition (Fraud)?
 

the most significant cases of fraud in the history of nature photographing?

http://www.suomenluonto.fi/bbcs-natu...ud-allegations.

A facinating read, see what you think.

Harry

An interesting read. Look forward to seeing the final decision.

I haven't read the rules of the competition, but isn't a wolf essentially a wild animal, even if in captivity?

That said, when I saw this photo for the first time a couple of months ago on AP, I commented then that it looked like a lot of work had gone into setting up - probably with a motion detector to trigger the shutter.

Someone must know the photographer. Let's hear his side of the story before we shout 'cheat' all over the place.

I ask myself a number of questions about this shot. Firstly as it was taken at night, how and why would the animal jump the gate? why wouldnt he jusst crawl through the bars of it? Just dont seem right.

Eventually this photo has been disqualified.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/p...-of-award.html

So what. the photo still has to be taken, this is still the hard part. Is this any different to a person shooting a macro in the lab.

Alan

The competition is for Wild life photographs so it is quite right to disqualify it. No harm in taking shots of captive animals, the sin is in trying to pass them off as genuine wild life photos and when it is for a very prestigious competition with a large sum of money to be won and the possible remunerative photographic contracts which could and probably would follow on winning the competition then fraud is the right word. No doubt he will pay for this the hard way, reputation and money.

That sums it up nicely Mike

I forgot to say that in wild life photography taking the actual photo is the easy part. If you talk to the pros then you will discover that one shot can take days or even weeks of preparation not to mention a good understanding of the behaviour of the subject. Not quite popping down to the local duck pond on the off chance or going to a bird display to capture raptors in flight. 'Nuff said from me I think! :)