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Not sure if this one would qualify

2013 Reader Submission
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I’m a member of an amateur camera club in the suburbs of New York City, we have a guest lecturer who visits us once or twice per year who tells us how he goes on photography walks in various national parks, national forests, state parks and state forests, and in order to photograph views which no other photographers have likely ever captured before, he enjoys wading out onto thin ice over semi- frozen ponds and lakes in the winter, he wades into rivers close to the edges of waterfalls, and he got lost in the Mojave Desert for an entire night because he didn’t realize that in an area which is that isolated, he wouldn’t be able to get a signal on his GPS devices. He’s lost so many cameras into rivers, ponds and lakes by now that there’s not one single insurance company in the U.S. which will offer to cover him anymore. He is a famous and very talented nature photographer, his photo travel essays have been published in numerous books in recent years, and so even if I could remember his name right now, I wouldn’t be able to submit it to you because that would be an invasion of his privacy- We semi- expect that some winter afternoon, he’ll go for a walk to take photos and then the forest rangers will find pieces of him in the spring after the snows thaw… I don’t know if this would constitute a Darwin nomination, if he’s not exaggerating when he tells us about his “techniques,” he has certainly crossed the line between “high risk adventure outdoor photography” and “complete idiocy” though…

Submitted on 11/08/2013

Submitted by: Scott Benowitz
Reference: Just trust me here, this IS a true story

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Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Lacks Excellence
Thanks, Scott, but without some specifics this sounds too much like an urban legend. If this photographer is going around lecturing about his foolhardy escapades then they're certainly in the public domain and therefore it wouldn't be an invasion of privacy to mention them here. Thanks just the same.

Candi said:
Definitely Toss: Lacks Excellence
What Bruce said. A reference to a transcript or an article of a speech or presentation where he spoke of these would be fine.

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