Picture this!
You are an ethical birder and keen nature photographer
traveling through the Kimberley's shortly after one of
the worst floods in history to ever hit the area.
You round a bend in your Landcruiser and cross a steep
ravine with a huge torrent of water cascading over a
massive water fall. As you pass the threshold of the
falls you see a wet and bedraggled man clinging onto a
log wedged on the edge of the falls, his legs dangling
out into the void.
You get out of your vehicle and run down the
embankment which is in close reach of the victim. Time
is short and the log is coming loose, you must hurry.
As you get closer to the pathetic bedraggled person
clinging so tenuously to life, you see it is a well
known bird bander, a person who uses cannon nets and
is renown for leg flagging hundreds of small waders
like Red-necked Stints and Curlew Sandpipers
You are beset with a terrible moral dilemma. Do you
put down your camera in the mud and drag this awful
creature to safety? Or do you wait a few seconds and
take a most spectacular Pulitzer Prize winning photo
of
this dreadful human sailing down into oblivion as the
log gives way in just a few seconds.
Urgently considering the birding code of ethics in
such a situation, the question every decent right
thinking person must ask themselves is this:
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WHAT SHUTTER SPEED AND F STOP SETTING DO I USE?
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