and gives us a list of photography’s advantages over specimen collection:
- You don’t need permits to take images.
- You can take images of wildlife and people (you can’t “collect” those!).
- Storage of images takes a lot less room than storage of an insect collection.
- It takes less time to prepare an image than a specimen (that may change as I get more sophisticated).
- You can share images (I can’t pin an insect specimen to my blog).
- Photography makes you more observant.
- Images of living organisms are more colorful and robust than faded, withered dead specimens.
- You can record behaviors in a photograph.
- You can record habitat in an image.
- Carpet beetle larvae can’t eat my hard drive.
don’t forget another reason: you don’t have to kill anything to take its photo 🙂