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A Majestic Leopard Accidentally Takes a Selfie in the Streets of Mumbai
- garblegarble 10y agoThere's an interesting conflict in the wired article here - it claims the photo to be a selfie taken by the animal (and I'm assuming Indian copyright law would similarly classify animal-taken photos as non-copyrightable) but then later on refers to them as "his photos" (presumably referring to the main image in the article).
- gbuk2013 10y agoThere's a bit about Mumbai's leopards in BBC's awesome new Planet Earth 2 documentary (S1E6): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbScW81yYKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbScW81yYKU
- Brakenshire 10y agoThe first episode is actually being shown next Wednesday.
- gbuk2013 10y agoNot in the UK it isn't - we've already seen them all! ;)
- passivepinetree 10y ago"Takes a Selfie" is disingenuous at best - the cat was caught on a motion-sensing camera. It seems like Wired was just trying to put a buzzword in the headline. @garblegarble it seems pretty clear that the photographer would own the copyright.
- iaw 10y agoWired isn't a publication I'm that pleased with anymore.
- djrogers 10y agoWhen did tripping IR sensors become 'taking a selfie'? By that logic, every time I'm on a security camera it'd be a selfie - and by extension that would be my copyrightable imagery. Ridiculous article, ridiculous headline. Click-bait...
- sandGorgon 10y agoMy university - IIT Mumbai - is not far from where this photo was taken. we had leopards in the dorm at night.
- libraryatnight 10y agoMy house cats can startle me in the night, I can't imagine bumping into a leopard.
- civilian 10y agoLike, in the dorm hallways? Were they scavenging food? Were they eating freshmen? What's the protocol for when you are greeted by a leopard when you're getting up to piss in the middle of the night?
- sandGorgon 10y agoyes. they climb trees. P.S. we also have crocs along one of the lakes. they eat dogs. They usually dont attack humans.
- iaw 10y agoThis is a gorgeous photo, but wired is a horrible site.
- irontoby 10y agoAre those bullet holes to the right of the door? This looks like something straight out of a video game. Note to Wired: "Enlarge Photo" doesn't mean what you apparently think it means.
- FraaJad 10y agopainted Yellow flowers.
- irontoby 10y agoThanks, I'm obviously letting my video game colored view of the world get the better of me :)
- sosuke 10y agoFunny and sad that is what happens so I found another larger one. http://i.imgur.com/EHnTYef.jpg http://i.imgur.com/EHnTYef.jpg I think that is the original size, I uploaded it to imgur so the source didn't get killed. https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/articles/2016-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-winners/ https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/articles/20... Edit: sorry it looks like imgur resized it? the original was 4928x3264 https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/-nayan-khanolkar_wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-urban-winner.jpg https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/-n...
- irontoby 10y agoThanks for this! What a gorgeous photo. Still looks very surreal.
- Upvoter33 10y agoit must be crazy living in a place where you might bump into a leopard - yikes
- jogjayr 10y agoNo more so than coyotes. Or mountain lions. Both have been known to make appearances in American cities. Mumbai is also unusual in being a large city that has a national park within its limits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_coyote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_coyote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Gandhi_National_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Gandhi_National_Park
- hxegon 10y agoGreat picture, cut the buzzword.
- g3cko 10y agoSome added pictures and little backstory, it took him 4 months to capture this http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/nayan-khanolkar-mumbai-bbc-wildlife-photographer-award/1/792250.html http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/nayan-khanolkar-mumbai-bb...
- dipthegeezer 10y agoI remember back when I was a kid my uncle told me a story about a night watchman who had a few drinks to alleviate the boredom of his job. He got really drunk and wondered off into the jungle ( back then the line between where the city starts and the jungle begins was shall we say blurred, probably still is ). Anyway they found his half eaten body the next morning not far from his post. I think my uncle told me that story to scare the hell out of me but, it had the opposite affect. I just said that that was the coolest thing ever and we should go leopard hunting.
- atomicbeanie 10y agoEvery human in Mumbai is probably hunting that cat now. I wish a conservationist had seen the photo first. The article is likely a death warrant for the cat.
- g3cko 10y agohttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/wpy/gallery/2016/images/urban/5090/the-alley-cat.html http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/wpy/gallery/2016/images/urban/509... You can read from the summary his motivations for his project shooting this image....
- atomicbeanie 10y agoVery nice. I hope the outcome is as the artist intends! Thank you for pointing to this link.