and gives us a list of photography's advantages over specimen collection:
- You donât need permits to take images.
- You can take images of wildlife and people (you canât âcollectâ those!).
- Storage of images takes a lot less room than storage of an insect collection.
- It takes less time to prepare an image than a specimen (that may change as I get more sophisticated).
- You can share images (I canât pin an insect specimen to my blog).
- Photography makes you more observant.
- Images of living organisms are more colorful and robust than faded, withered dead specimens.
- You can record behaviors in a photograph.
- You can record habitat in an image.
- Carpet beetle larvae canât eat my hard drive.
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OK, I apologize in advance for the general venting that is about to occur. But, in my defense, people really bug me sometimes.
slacktivist: T.F.: By the rivers of Babylon
Dr Free-ride, Sheril Kirshenbaum, and Isis the Scientist
SK â definition of civility at your site â if you want children to feel welcome, for example. You have to set the tone. Some topics seem more important to be civil about.
don't forget another reason: you don't have to kill anything to take its photo :)