All of us hear the conservation message repeatedly—preserve what we have or it won’t be there for the next generation, right? I’m sure most of you educate yourselves on what you can do. You learn about your subjects before photographing them, use low-impact techniques to reduce ris...
The concept of conservation photography has been proposed out of the need to make a distinction between the creation of images for the sake of photography, and the creation of images to serve the purpose of conserving nature.
by Joe Smith | December 1, 2005
My first Coastal Bend Wildlife Photo Contest in 2001 was my introduction to nature photography and photographing on ranches in Texas. As a recently retired businessman living in Houston, Texas, I knew nothing about wildlife and habitat and had little experience in taking nature slide images, eit...
Introduction by Heather Forcier
Almost a year ago we received correspondence from a new organization looking to promote conservation through use of private lands to lease for nature photography – the Images for Conservation Fund (ICF).
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More than any other animal the tiger stands out as the defining symbol of wildlife in the Indian sub-continent. As commonly known, the tiger once thrived all over India, but what is not known is that with the ascendancy of the British Raj, the tiger was considered to be vermin, and the slaughter...
