Caught Bang to Rights

[BananaRepublic]

Award-winning wildlife photo disqualified - USA NEWS HEADLINES

 

[limr]

Oops.

EDIT: Another article that shows a picture of the stuffed anteater: Judges in top photo contest rule anteater in winning image is stuffed

 

[Gary A.]

Cheaters suck!

 

[cgw]

The stuffed anteater story was absurd. Long exposure, multiple flashes, lots of movement and zero blur on the animal. If he wasn't stuffed, then he suffered a stroke or seizure just as the photographer arrived.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Well then, I'll just take a stuffed animal out in the back yard and I too can be a wildlife photographer.


And I don't know what that website is... US headlines? this happened in the UK.

I think looking at it that it's just a forum and anybody can post whatever. I knew something was off when the headlines had so many mistakes in grammar. The person who is a forum member on there as AtoZ Publishers wrote this and seems to have embellished the information from the museum's site including what seems to be inaccurate statements. I wouldn't go completely by what that site says.

 

[espresso2x]

Eventually, however, judges found that Rodriguez had hired the wolf from a wildlife park

lol

 

[nerwin]

There is always cheating in competitions.

At least they caught him.

 

[Gary A.]

Eventually, however, judges found that Rodriguez had hired the wolf from a wildlife park

lol

I imagine hiring a wolf isn't all that easy.

 

[Fujidave]

There is always cheating in competitions.

At least they caught him.

I think it is a right sad state of affairs when you have to cheat in the art of photography, and any other thing too. If your good/great just show your skill that way, otherwise don`t enter.

 

[smoke665]

I imagine hiring a wolf isn't all that easy.

Apparently there are agents. LOL

 

[nerwin]

There is always cheating in competitions.

At least they caught him.

I think it is a right sad state of affairs when you have to cheat in the art of photography, and any other thing too. If your good/great just show your skill that way, otherwise don`t enter.

That's why I don't bother with photography competitions. It's never fair because most of the time judges are bias.

 

[dennybeall]

I read a well researched article that said that a large percentage of "wildlife" photos are taken of animals in captivity.
I know I've got photos of alligators and various wading birds that were taken in the wild of a local river and also in the Withlacoochee Wildlife park and you could not tell which are which??

 

[BananaRepublic]

Picture from zoo and things always bothered me morale as its like going into a prison a taking photos