Talk:Eric Hosking

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Though it is a good start, this article as it stands is mere hagiography, elevating Hosking beyond his achievements. The photography of animals in the wild posed a considerable challenge to early photography; it is suggested that the first such photograph was made of penguins in 1872 during the Challenger expedition. Unfortunately this article is too narrow in scope and takes no account of other pioneers such as Richard and Cherry Kearton and Benjamin Wyles in Britain, and fails to place Hosking in a world context (Wikipedia is a global encyclopaedia), against, say, German Ottomar Anschütz or Americans professor Hobart Herrick (1858-1940) and Frank M. Chapman. Yes, Hosking's bird photography is famous and he did much to advance the field in Britain, but how 'pioneering' he was in fact, this article fails to define. His own books should not be entirely relied upon for these facts. He used glass plates early on out of financial necessity, but since they were a superseded technology by the 1930s and because of the fact that he soon switched to film, the discussion of the obstacles he faced as a photographer is not supportable as representative of his entire career and needs to be set in context. Jamesmcardle^(talk) 23:56, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]