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3. My thoughts exactly

Being a (nature) photographer as well as a painter (oil, acrylic, pastels—and dreadful watercolourist) I feel that it is not about 'purity', it is about photography non-destructively capturing reality versus all the other art forms which, also non-destructively, take a more nuanced look at the world.

To leave your subject injured or dead in order to 'get the image' is not something with which I am comfortable. If a plant or animal is beautiful enough to photograph, then it is beautiful enough to not harm. Same is, of course, true for less photogenic living beings.