The Leaping Wolf may not have been running free

tororosso

bedlam wrote: »

Jose Luis Rodriguez has been disqualified as a result of the allegations.

I have just read that article and have to say that the whole thing is farcical :rolleyes: He has been disqualified because the judging panel reconvened to make up their minds again!
"Louise Emerson from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition office explained that the judging panel had been "reconvened" and had concluded that it was likely that the wolf featured in the image was an animal model that could be "hired for photographic purposes"."

All they have to go on is suspicion hence the notion that it was "likely" that it was posed...and there doesnt appear to be any concrete proof that it is a pet wolf either.
The bottom line is that the photograph is great but never in the slightest bit looked natural to me at all. If the Judges felt this was the best "wildlife" shot out of 43,000 submitted they look completely incompetent to go back and basically admit that they now have suspicions.

Oh Yeah, and based on their "suspicions", which he has denied, they have now banned him from the competition for life...big deal about that but the aspect I dont like is that he is now having his reputation sullied by the whole thing as well. Each of these photography competitions gets worse and worse to be honest :mad:

democrates

+1 tororosso, and without proof that it's the tame wolf Ossian aren't they actionable for libel?

Run_to_da_hills

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Judges say they are convinced José Luis Rodriguez staged prizewinning picture of wolf

The UK's Natural History Museum's wildlife photographer of the year has been stripped of his £10,000 prize, after judges found he was likely to have hired a tame Iberian wolf to stage the image of a species seen rarely in the wild.

It dose look like a clipart or else something stuffed.




http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8470962.stm

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Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

It dose look like a clipart or else something stuffed.

If you read your own link you'd see that it's a tame wolf from a zoological park near Madrid. :rolleyes:

Many wildlife photographs, and indeed films, use "models" and trained animals. It doesn't take from the splendour of the animal but it is cheating in a Photographic Competition for sure...

tororosso

democrates wrote: »

+1 tororosso, and without proof that it's the tame wolf Ossian aren't they actionable for libel?

Yeah I guess that is another dimension to it now. I mean it seems that they have jumped the gun with how they have handled the suspicions publicly! I wonder what Rodriguez's response will be now but I wouldnt say the story has ended quite yet :pac:

stevoman

i think this may be more apt for this forum. mods, i hope thats ok with you.

Run_to_da_hills

Grady Sticky Realtor wrote: »

If you read your own link you'd see that it's a tame wolf from a zoological park near Madrid. :rolleyes:

My link said he was likely to have hired a tame Iberian wolf.

and the possible use of photoshop. :rolleyes:

CabanSail

Is that Elvis I see lurking in the Shadows there? It looks like he's talking to Michael Jackson.