Any wildlife photographers should check out two books I purchased today.
The first is called Monkey Portraits by Jill Greenberg. It is a collection of images where Jill has put trained monkeys into a professional studio environment and photographed them with the same setups as she would her celebrity subjects. Some of the results are stunning. Please bear in mind though that the primates contained in the collection have been trained to perform on TV and film sets.
The second is called Untamed by Steve Bloom (who has possibly stolen Andy Rouse's title of my favourite wildlife photographer). It is a collection of images that he has achieved throughout his career, and I assure you they are 200 of the best images I have ever seen. Truly breathtaking.
Enjoy.

I would also like to draw people's attention to a Deviant named Armenius. She runs the DA club Rep-phibian who some of you may be members of. I feel that Armenius is an irresponsible member of DA and flaming of another member who may not know as much about the life of herps is unnacceptable in my opinion. We should be educating people about this misunderstood group of creatures.
The incident in question can be found here [link]
In case she removes this deviation or her comments (which she is likely to do after the posts I have left) here is a transcript of it:





~mccloaker 3 hours 10 minutes ago
Not feeding him probably didn't help dude. Why don't you feed your pets?

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*Armenius 2 hours 6 minutes ago
because it's winter, and he was meant to be hibernating you fucking jerk!

and adult beardies only need to be fed twice a week or so even in the middle of summer!

so next time, before you go opening your offensive arse-hole of a mouth, why don't you do a bit of research? then, stop and think about what you're going to say before puking your unwanted dibble into the world.

Now run home to your mum before i really flame you.

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~mccloaker 1 hour 43 minutes ago
My intention wasn't to offend, but given how childish that was, I'm now rather glad I did.

Have a nice day. Jesus loves you!

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*Armenius 48 minutes 28 seconds ago
don't try and hide behind your false god little boy, regardless of your supposed intention you were obviously being offensive and you knew it. How else did you suppose accusing someone of mistreating their late pet be taken?

I hope that when your dog dies you receive excessive amounts of equally offensive and insensitive comments.

oh, and consider yourself blocked by me and flagged or blocked by all of my friends.

Have a nice day

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*InsaneGelfling Posted!
Maybe, mccloaker isn't as educated as yourself when it comes to reptiles. Maybe as a club founder you should be setting an example by NOT flaming (that's in your own club rules by the way) and trying to teach people about this misunderstood group of animals.
I am very disappointed to see someone who obviously does know a bit about reptiles acting in this manner, and I notice you dress your Bearded Dragon up for parties. Hmmm... that doesn't seem like proper care of a reptile in my opinion.
I shall be leaving Rep-phibian and leaving a note in my journal about your behaviour for all of my herp loving friends.

Thanks for reading. Have a nice day.





If you feel strongly about this then I would urge you to disassociate yourself with this club. I certainly do not want to be linked to a club where the founder treats people in this way, rather than provide information about the subject in question.

Jonathan Carre

My clubs