re: Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award

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To be able to get the leopard and the mountains in complete focus?

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The leopard doesn’t seem like it’s in focus to me

That's good stuff.

The cheetah and monkey is very evocative and somehow symbolic of our troubling times. IMO.

That's an amazing photo.

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Same with the polar bear picture. If that's not a trail cam then that photog is one brave idiot

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That was also taken remotely.

Those are amazing images. The amount of work and luck it takes to capture images like that is difficult to understand.

I good friend was on a National Geographic photo contest jury. All finalists had to submit original digital files to determine whether they were photoshopped images. They disqualified dozens of potential winners to get a true set of finalists. Shots of this caliber are very rare.

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Pics are great, but how many of these were photographed love by a person and not a tripod with a motion detector?

And does that matter?

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It definitely should matter IMO. I do think there should be some reward for each though, but there’s a very distinct difference between physically snapping a picture and utilizing automated cameras (trail cameras, motion triggered, etc).

I also think there should be different categories of touched up vs. untouched pics.

… Despite knowing that Cheetah Johnson had killed before, the Kenyan DA let her go, fully knowing she would kill again. It’s a jungle out there and you don’t monkey around with Cheetah.

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Two for the price of one.

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Or BOGO!
Bite one get one.

Yeah, anyone can set up a high-end game cam and acquire thousands of pics without even being there.