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I recently went to the *Adelaide Botanic Gardens* to take a look at the *Wildlife Photographer of the Year* exhibition which is currently on loan from the Natural History Museum in London and on display in the Bicentennial Conservatory in the gardens, the structure pictured below and above. The conservatory mimics the lowland rainforest climate of northern Australia and inside is very humid - and it periodically "rains" due to its artificial mist-spray system. It's a nice, if hot, location for the photography exhibition. ![20260102_142335.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/galenkp/243zR4JMLAZSFvranYbQQfWWEh5xYB5QDhGyDcVrEghXSHiRZNKiuYwUNJofvhV2QRCg7.jpg) I'll be sharing a few of the images and some of the notes I took about them beginning with this one below. Please keep in mind, *I took the images in this post, not the original images in the exhibition.* Image by: Alvaro Herrero Lopez Location: Pacific Ocean, off Mexico ![ko00rEEW.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/galenkp/Eou6jvunW3zHVgzzEhQPjM7LeXueABsBRY5ufKtkVnGn1Ah6oLPEDuARqKSoX6JqS8T.jpg) The image shows a whale off the Baja California coast (a State of Mexico bordering the U.S. State of California) that is starving to death. The whale's tale is caught in discarded ropes from commercial fishing enterprise and was useless - the whale was unable to reach the surface to breath despite the photographer's attempts to remove the ropes. According to research, over 300,000 whales and dolphins are killed in this manner each year through entanglement with "ghost" nets, ropes and buoys discarded by fishermen. A sad indictment of the disgusting creatures called human beings. _{Note, the image is pristine in real life, the little spots you see above are water droplets from the mist-sprayers used to maintain the climate in the Bicentennial Conservatory.} *** What are your thoughts on the callous manner in which human s treat this planet and its inhabitants? Comment below if you'd like to.

*** *** *Design and create your ideal life, tomorrow isn't promised* - galenkp _{[Original and AI free]} _{I took the images in this post, not the original images in the exhibition.}

Little Armoured One!