"Common neighbourhood plants and animals are usually overlooked and undervalued, yet they are most people’s first, sometimes only, point of contact with wild nature. They matter for that reason if no other. They can make us feel better, let us see ourselves in perspective.
We want people to sit up and take notice of these wild neighbours by presenting them as celebrities: photographed in the white field studio, in exquisite detail under beautiful lighting. And we need photographers around the world to partner with us in this effort."
Here's a link to the website: Go there and have a look at and then join in the effort!
7 comments:
Hi Natasha!
Thanks for posting about Meet Your Neighbours. May I suggest linking directly to our new website: http://www.meetyourneighbours.org/.
Kind Regards,
Clay Bolt
Sure Clay, have done it now. Great effort I wish you the best with it!
Been following your blog for a while, and now it appears I've met a friend of yours here in St.Louis...Malvika Talwar! :) Hopefully, we'll be going birding together some time soon.
Thanks for this link, I'm headed there now!
-Deepa Mohan
http://deponti.livejournal.com
Hi Deepa,
Sorry I get a bit lazy about the blog these days. Malu wrote recently to tell me that she knew you too. :)
Did you go birding finally? Hope you like Mizzou.
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Its a great idea, nice post spreading that site :)
I'd like to join up for "Meet Your Neighbours"...but I have a few questions....one, I don't know how to photograph "local" flora and fauna only against a white background...and two, wouldn't doing that make it UNinteresting by removing the context?
Would like to have your views on this...
Hi Molarbear,
I believe the website gives you pretty detailed explanations on how to set up to do the images.
Off course removing context makes it less contextual, but I don't know about uninteresting. I think the focus is shifted, to the animal very very sharply. In all its details, form, etc.
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