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The Interaction of Man and Nature
Jose Luis Rodgriguez* recently won the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award for his photograph, The Storybook Wolf.
For more information on the contest and other winners, go to this BBC article, Leaping wolf snatches photo prize, or the this photo gallery at The Guardian.
The BBC article quotes one of the judges, Mark Carwardine, “It’s captured thousands of years of human-wolf interaction in just one moment.” I couldn’t agree more. I would even go so far as to say that this photograph captures mankind’s interaction with nature in general. We have persistently tried to tame, control and keep out nature but nature, life itself, always finds a way.
Maybe this is just me. Photography seems to capture just one discreet moment in time but always make me want to know more about who or what is being photographed, what happened before or after the shot, what brought the photographer to that place at that point in time.
Video on the other hand is more directed. It leads you through the story. It not only answers those questions but often defines what the questions are.
Each serves its purpose just fine and I certainly don’t see one being better but there is something about photography can seem more compelling.
Do you have any favorite photos?
* I tried to find if the photographer has a website but apparently googling Jose Luis Rodriguez in Spain is about like searching for a John Brown in England. I’m still trying to figure out how to get a print of this.
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Thanks Skep,
That picture is awesome. I know you hate cat pictures, but Jerry Coyne blogged about this too and posted that pic above and a pic with a cat standing up to a fox!
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/bbc-wildlife-photo-winners-felid-included/
If the fox isn’t eating the cat, then I’m not interested
I HEART <3<3<3 CAT PHOTOS!
http://felinephotos.blogspot.com/
Ya, I like the attack cat.
The fact is true though. Man has done his best to control the animals but it is impossible, evolution is inevitable.
Haven’t you heard about the Animal conspiracy theory – when animals attack? This will be a constant battle between the species. Survival of the fittest.
I hate to say it but I’m honeswtly thinking, Photo Shopped! Great photos eitherway. The Fox looks to faded/fuzy to be part of such a crisp photo. And the wolf looks real but the fence and rocks look to perfectly imagned and the back ground has no clear defined lines to show where they attach into the photo properly.