Reader Nick sent me this 4-minute video about a young Indian girl—only ten years old—has become an accomplished wildlife photographer. I’ve started the video at the point at which her “PBS News Weekend” piece begins. It’s a short video but a heartwarming one, and this young woman is going to go far. It doesn’t hurt that she has access to some of the most charismatic wildlife in the world!
Her prize-winning “Nature Photographer of the Year” photo is stunning.
And she correctly says “peahens!”. I think most people would call them peacocks, but that is for the males.
Today is also the day the Guardian posts many of the winning photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024 exhibition. Very worth looking at, including work by young photographers.
Yes! People can go here, and click on Explore the Gallery.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy
Love the photos and the how and why explanations. I’d miss so much without them, like the two flies on the anaconda v camin battle.
Very cool. It’s unfortunate that the narrator colors the narrative by saying that wildlife photographers have been disproportionately male, and that this young photographer, Shreyovi Mehta, is about to change that stereotype. Mehta seems far more interested in being a wildlife photographer than in being a female wildlife photographer.
I noticed that too. It’s a media staple however.
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She wants to photograph a snow leopard! I love this kid.