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Photographing animals in wildlife refuges

Photographing animals in wildlife refuges

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Photographing animals in wildlife refuges

>> Hi, I'm Ben Long and this week, on the practicing photographer, we're going to look at an interesting way of getting very compelling wildlife photos. I'm sitting here right now with Carolyn Wright, an attorney who specializes in photographer's rights issues and copyright. But, Carolyn is also a fantastic wildlife photographer. Carolyn, I'm, we're looking at some of your images here. These wolves are incredible, and there's kind of a trick to how you got them. You aren't actually off in the wilderness with a bunch of wild wolves around you. >> No, I mean, first of all, once you're in the wilderness, you need to make sure that you're safe because, you're, you're entering into the wildlife domain. And you also don't want to, impact their environment. I mean, a lot of animals will run away or leave their young, or if you're in that area. So, one, one way to do this is, especially with wolves, because if you go to Yellowstone, you're not supposed to get within like a 1,000 yards of a…

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