Ethics in wildlife photography

Tim Priest · Issue 57, Nov/Dec 2010 · pp. 43–47

Products mentioned: Nikon D200, Anthis/Nexus housing, Inon Z-240 strobes, Nikon Coolpix 5000, Nikonos V, Ebony 5x4in field camera

Wildscreen is a charity working around the world to promote nature conservation through wildlife photography. Their fifth WildPhotos meeting was held at the Royal Geographical Society in London to coincide with the announcement of the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010 in October. Several successful photographers, including Hungarian Bence Máté, the overall winner, joined some of the world’s best to share their expertise and celebrate keynote speaker David Doubilet. His images still astound professional photographers who work above the water. Beautiful, sometimes challenging, images made WildPhotos a rewarding experience. The most beautiful, perhaps, Tim Laman’s from Papua New Guinea where he is pursuing the almost unbelievable courtship displays of male birds of paradise, with a little time left over for the reefs of Raja Ampat. The most challenging, David Doubile…