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<blockquote data-quote="Trish" data-source="post: 2637945" data-attributes="member: 214695">The difference is so simple, a lot of people miss it:&nbsp; You can&#039;t eat a photo.I have done some fairly serious &quot;photo hunting&quot;, and I&#039;ll tell you, it IS a great way to hone your stalking skills.&nbsp; However, once I started really hunting, I realized there was no comparison.&nbsp; As a photo &quot;hunter&quot;, I was standing outside of the natural world looking in.&nbsp; As a hunter, I became a part of the natural cycle of life and death.&nbsp; One creature eats another in order to nurture its own life.&nbsp; In the end, the nutrients go back to the earth to nurture plants, which nurture the prey, which nurture the predator again.&nbsp; A photographer has nothing to do with that cycle, or pretends not to.&nbsp; Actually, we all eat to survive, and in our own way we cause death.&nbsp; (Yes, even vegans.&nbsp; Plants may not be cute and furry, but they, too, are living organisms.)&nbsp; As a hunter, I face that reality honestly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trish, post: 2637945, member: 214695"] The difference is so simple, a lot of people miss it: You can't eat a photo. I have done some fairly serious "photo hunting", and I'll tell you, it IS a great way to hone your stalking skills. However, once I started really hunting, I realized there was no comparison. As a photo "hunter", I was standing outside of the natural world looking in. As a hunter, I became a part of the natural cycle of life and death. One creature eats another in order to nurture its own life. In the end, the nutrients go back to the earth to nurture plants, which nurture the prey, which nurture the predator again. A photographer has nothing to do with that cycle, or pretends not to. Actually, we all eat to survive, and in our own way we cause death. (Yes, even vegans. Plants may not be cute and furry, but they, too, are living organisms.) As a hunter, I face that reality honestly. [/QUOTE]

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