John Bevis explores the various feats of cunning and subterfuge undertaken by the Kearton brothers — among the very first professional wildlife photographers — in their pioneering attempts to get ever closer to their subjects: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/stuffed-ox-dummy-tree-artificial-rock-deception-in-the-work-of-richard-and-cherry-kearton
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The target audience for my art is myself
My second target audience is the gays, the religiously traumatized and the old man likers