#567 - Wildlife Photography and AI

In this episode of the Wild Eye podcast, Gerry confronts the "identity crisis" currently dividing wildlife photographers. He argues that if you use Lightroom masking, Denoise, or Topaz, you are already using AI. Whether you admit it or not.

Gerry explores how synthetic imagery is rapidly consuming the entry-level market and why the "lived experience", the wind on your face and the physical grit of the bush, is your last true differentiator.

He provides a practical framework for using captions as "proof of presence" and shares an ethics statement to help photographers draw their own line between technical enhancement and digital fabrication.

The episode concludes with a direct challenge: stop the existential crisis, define your "why," and decide exactly where you stand in this new reality.

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