| Ethics of picking fungi for photos
I recently came a across a set of photos on flickr of some nice fungi but I noticed (quite quickly) that they had been picked and arranged.
Now I understand that some folks like to pick fungi for food or in somecases to get a tricky ID confirmed but this photographer had picked lots (30+ in one) and arranged them how he wanted.
Do others think this is ethically dodgy both in the photographic sense, there not in a natural arrangment and could be regarded as fake, and more importantly ecologically, having unnecessarily removed the fruiting body of some fungi, perhaps in numbers that could affect the population? Or am I overreacting? |