What’s on the menu?

[Sam-D]

For a graphic example of the effect on wildlife from pollution and a throwaway culture, have a look at this memorable collection of unaltered shots showing the remains of deceased albatross chicks.

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11

Sam-D

 

[StewartR]

Oh my goodness. It's certainly memorable. That's a great find, and thanks for posting it here.

 

[gromit99]

That is tragic

 

[Barney12]

Incredible pictures.

 

[squizza]

It is truly tragic

On the subject of the photography however, I don't believe a word that has been said about there being no set up. There's something screaming out to me that makes it a little faked.

 

[arclight]

It is truly tragic

On the subject of the photography however, I don't believe a word that has been said about there being no set up. There's something screaming out to me that makes it a little faked.

Got to agree with that.
Absolutely no wish to belittle the horrible misery that does get inflicted on wildlife by humans discarding rubbish.

I think the photographer has attempted to illustrate a point by arranging all that rubbish on carcases. The quantities are probably far too great to have been ingested naturally.

Perhaps the impact would have been greater if less rubbish had been used.
Sometimes less is more.

 

[dd77]

Wow! This is amazingly sad.

 

[Irus]

It does look like lot of plastic in the photos and at first I thought that maybe it was set up but another site states that the healthy chicks often have one ounce of plastic in their stomachs and that it takes about 2 ounces of plastic to kill a chick. I just weighed 4 soft bottle tops together and they weight in at 0.25 of an ounce combined, therefore 2 ounces would be 32 soft bottle tops....I’m now leaning towards the pictures being accurate as stated.

Either way it is amazingly sad.

 

[fatphotographer]

A truly incredible set of images....but it is very difficult not to question the authenticity as it it that unbelievable.

 

[Forbiddenbiker]

Got to agree with that.
Absolutely no wish to belittle the horrible misery that does get inflicted on wildlife by humans discarding rubbish.

I think the photographer has attempted to illustrate a point by arranging all that rubbish on carcases. The quantities are probably far too great to have been ingested naturally.

Perhaps the impact would have been greater if less rubbish had been used.
Sometimes less is more.

There's a whole paragraph explaining that their untouched in all ways.

 

[blinkerz]

in the documentry 'Addicted to Plastic' they show this sort of thing, so i dont think its staged..

 

[arclight]

There's a whole paragraph explaining that their untouched in all ways.

Yip, I read it.

 

[Janet S]

After browsing various other websites, I'm inclined to agree that the pictures are indeed untouched...

Shameful, isn't it?

Janet