I spent an interesting day at the RPS Nature group's Chairmen's Day meeting at Oldbury. The day consisted of a series of talks about natural history photography. As usual with these types of days the talks were varying interest depending on you interest in the subject. So I found Martin Dyer's talk about wildlife photography on the island of Mull far more interesting than Gianpiero Ferrari's 'A Year of Wildlife'. This was nothing to do with the individual but rather their subject matter. Ferrari is very interested in moths and orchids, neither of which really do anything for me, whereas Dyer's work is more to interests.
In the afternoon Heather Angel gave a bravado presentation about her work at Kew gardens and then on her wider work. Both were fascinating but something kept going around in my head as she spoke, especially about her other work. Carbon Footprint. Her carbon footprint must be enormous. As she spoke I started to debate this - the individual talent against the greater good and I am not sure what the solution to all this is. She clearly is a hugely talented photographer but could her photographs be sourced locally, thus reducing her carbon foot print and perhaps going some small way to reducing the effects of man made climate change. I really don't have an answer to this but it kept going through my mind as she spoke. This was a shame as some of her work is simply stunning.
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