Actually, whatever the rights and wrongs of whale-hunting, on whatever scale, it can be very photogenic. I have a wonderful Japanese book by Bon Ishikawa called "The Last Whale Hunters of Indonesia" (isbn 4-10-419101-9) which documents some subsistence-level whale-hunters. The photos are superb.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/4104191019/ref=dp_image_text _0/026-9445807-1146853?ie=UTF8 -- Cheers, Bob -----Original Message----- From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 July 2006 11:51 To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: PESO - Jump [...] > > Norway has a traditional history of whale hunting. Australian > aborigines have a traditional history of hunting dugong (which > may be threatened). The former is condemned but the latter is > allowed. Go figure. > It's quite easy to figure, actually. One of them is large-scale, global and industrialised, the other is subsistence-level and local. Regards, Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
