Interesting. It seems almost obvious that the picture is staged, unless he used a remote camera, because a flash was used, and if he was standing there, the wolf certainly would have seen (and smelled) him. There is good depth-of-field, so a long lens was probably not used. Also, the article states, '"José Luis risked a slow shutter-speed to reveal the moonlit sky and conjure up the atmosphere of the place."'. This shot does not look like a moonlit scene to me at all; as I said, it looks like it was taken with a flash, and very little of the surrounding scenery (the moonlit sky -- where? was the included photo a cropped version of the actual photograph?) can be seen. And, rules are rules. If the specific rules say that you cannot use animal models, well, you can't. Whether or not you agree with the rules doesn't matter. Recently, there was a competition that said that all photos needed to be in landscape format. I thought that the rule was ludicrous, and didn't enter the contest, but that was the rule. Andrew On 1/21/2010, "Alberto Tirado" <fotodiseno2003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Forum too quiet. I hope *not* to open a can of worms, but I found this news interesting: > >Photographer José Luis Rodríguez won the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, but then the jury, after some investigations, ruled that the animal depicted was tamed/trained and thus the photo ineligible for the competition > >http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/21/wildlife.photographer.disqualified/index.html > >The disqualification also means a permanent ban for the photographer. > >Some are (I am!) very passionate about the subject of ""reality" in photography, but lets just keep this about the rules of the contest. > >********************** >www.alberto-tirado.com > > > > > >
