“Mr Rodriguez strongly denied that the wolf was a trained animal,” the BBC News reported on January 20.
Nonetheless Jose Luis Rodriguez was stripped of his first-place price for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the judges disqualifying him based on his subject probably being a “model,” even though they had already awarded Rodriguez first prize in October 2009 — out of 43,000 competition entries.
Frankly, I don’t really care about the politics of this particular competition debacle. But the story grabbed my attention because — to me, before reading the article — the photograph of the jumping wolf rang out as staged.
I didn’t think, “The photographer staged this image.” It was just a gut reaction. Continue reading “What is “Nature Photography”?”