My usual goal in zoological portraiture is to try to keep the environment in the photo looking as close to the animal’s natural habitat as possible. And unless you’re in some sort of post-apocalyptic movie, an urban center is not where most of these guys live. Still, sometimes the “zoo” shot is the one you have to take.
I can all but guarantee you the designer of Predator Ridge saw this shot in their mind while making the initial drawings. I can also all but guarantee you there’s a few thousand people out there with a shot that’s pretty damn similar to this one. Still, sometimes the obvious shot is the one you have to take.
Zoo shot, obvious shot. Neither of those matter in the long run. This is my shot. And that’s all that matters.
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