Virtually every couple of days I get a call from someone requesting me to take them as assistant. When I ask why they want to do wildlife photography, I get lot of answers. First is I like it. When I did deeper, I find that it is the glamour that pulls people in. Wish they had known the truth.

No photograph is more important than the welfare of the subject. The problem is people are after facebook likes. Some kind of narcissistic tendency I guess. I am told people are buying facebook likes as well to brag about their facebook likes. I had heard of kids buying virtual things in video games. However here we find adults doing the same. Its a crazy world.

One of the major problems of people trying closeups is because people don't understand the concept of environmental images. In US the concept of shallow depth of field to create image of a bird with background out of focus got prominence. Our photographers madly follow that bird in a stick concept going to great lengths to not only blur images during post processing but also to plant sticks and change the habitat of the birds so that they can photograph closeups.

In the following link, there are guidelines for ethics in Nature photography. I hope people can be educated. http://www.indiawilds.com/diary/ethi...e-photography/