accepting wild to be wild

The pesky thing about wild animals is that they are indeed wild animals. It is quite the transparent statement, which some individuals may scoff at due to its obvious nature. However, as individual who has spent most of the last decade interacting with large wild animals in their natural world, it surprises me how people are quite upset by such a thing.

Most of the time it comes from a place where people have been putting expectations in their head of how these animals are suppose to behave. I am assuming a lot of these expectations have come viral Facebook and YouTube clips of amazing and incredibly rare encounters. It takes quite a bit of informing to get some people to simply appreciate where you are at that time and how special it is to interact with such a massive animal. Regardless, of how we think it should act for us as individuals, rather than be grateful of spending time observing this huge animal just going about its day.

For example, this photo is a pretty cool shot I took of a humpback fluking in Antarctica. However, most people want to get the perfect symmetrical shot of the tail perfectly straight and not angled like it is in the photo. However, I reckon it makes it even better, as it always reminds me that this animal was simply focused on foraging and not trying to instagram perfect