Steve Winter loves being a wildlife photographer, but he dislikes the term.
“I’m telling a story like a photojournalist, I just happen to photograph the natural world,” he said. “But we’re put in a separate category.”
As far as he’s concerned, despite the fact that most of his pictures are of or about big cats, he’s as much a photojournalist in the conventional sense as anyone else.
Mr. Winter, 56, has been photographing wild animals for more than 20 years, mainly for National Geographic. But unlike many wildlife photographers, who “don’t do people,” Mr. Winter said he tried to tell the full story of tigers and other large cats. That includes showing the constant tension between humans and their wild surroundings, and the often-gruesome situations that result on both sides...Continue reading, photos...
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hidden camera captures several frames of tigers. Both of these tigers
have killed people — one killed two local villagers and the other ate a
park ranger. They now live in captivity, in a facility for problem
tigers in Bhopal.
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