I went to see the leatherback sea turtles nesting a few years ago. They guide themselves by the light of the full moon and we were explicitly told not to use flash photography, as it disorients the turtles.
As I’m sure will not surprise you, as the turtle ladies crawled up onto the beach, about 100 blinding flashes went off right in their faces.
Oh fuck that makes me mad. If I was running that operation, I’d have those people removed from the beach immediately. And probably fined, depending on the situation.
Or better yet, ban people from bringing cameras with flashes.
pretty hard when they’re phones, but i get it. it’s almost worth investing in some cheap digitals that you can destroy the flashes and give to everyone to take the photos and then email them their copies. and by almost i mean i wish i had the money i’d do it right now.
I went to see the leatherback sea turtles nesting a few years ago. They guide themselves by the light of the full moon and we were explicitly told not to use flash photography, as it disorients the turtles. As I’m sure will not surprise you, as the turtle ladies crawled up onto the beach, about 100 blinding flashes went off right in their faces.
Oh fuck that makes me mad. If I was running that operation, I’d have those people removed from the beach immediately. And probably fined, depending on the situation.
Or better yet, ban people from bringing cameras with flashes.
pretty hard when they’re phones, but i get it. it’s almost worth investing in some cheap digitals that you can destroy the flashes and give to everyone to take the photos and then email them their copies. and by almost i mean i wish i had the money i’d do it right now.