The grimness of the helter skelter. #helterskelter #beamish #ukbm #blackmetal #musiciansofinstagram #blackandwhitephotography #tiltshift #winterfayre https://www.instagram.com/p/ClsVl05KXZ0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
I freed the lions from Bristol Zoo! Not really, I just used a bit of AI to remove any artificial elements from the frame, giving a sense that the photo was taken in the wild. It's just a slightly easier way for a little guy whose visually impaired & doesn't have an awful lot of money to make it look like he's photographed all sorts of interesting stuff. How good he is though is another question! I first got the idea of this sort of editing when using the AI-powered "healing" function on Snapspeed while editing some of my photos from Pretoria Zoo. They weren't great in the 1st place & even worse following editing, so I didn't use the version, but those that I did publish are still on my profile. One point which I was quite interested in during my visit to Bristol Zoo last year was the information they had on display about the lions' habit of walking up and down along the edge of their enclosure, which many understandably but incorrectly assume to be them wanting to escape its confines - in reality, such behaviour is founded on their perfectly natural habit of patrolling their territory. What certainly seemed evident was that modern scientific study has clearly provided a lot of very practical knowledge on how to keep animals happy even in the relatively confined space of a traditional zoo, and that many zoos are using this best practise. This I think is an important consideration in the ongoing debate on the ethics of zoos in that it presents a strong reason why the poorly if at all substantiated opinions of public activists should trump the very great benefits of zoos, not least allowing people to see a wide variety of animals they might never otherwise see in their natural habitats. #WildlifeWednesday #BristolZooGardens #AsianLion #tiltshift #lensblur #Snapspeed #2022 #WednesdayWisdom #Bloganuary #photographerlife #traditionalist #ZooDebate #lion #Bristol #England #science #education #zoo #wildlife #WidlifePhotography #ZooPhotograpny #SpecialPlace #animal (at Bristol Zoo Gardens) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnAw45xo2NN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=