RE: [Leica] Leica: Pictures of whaling in Indonesia

["Jeffery Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>]

The military is also possibly wreaking havoc on whales with sonar. The
problem with trying to preserve the whales is that we know so little
about them.

Best Regards,

Jeffery L. Smith



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us 
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of 
> Tomoyuki Kumagai
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:04 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica: Pictures of whaling in Indonesia
> 
> 
> Mr Hulsenbeek
> 
> # to all who remembers me...
> # been away from the list for some time, but now I am back.
> 
> I enjoyed the photos. I am no professional so I would like to 
> say some 
> comments about the subject first.
> 
> As a Japanese, when I grew up eating whale meat. It was part of our 
> culture where we did not have custom of eating meat other than fish 
> whales where one of good sources of protein, I have heard one 
> whale was 
> enough to feed one villege, it was just a part of natural Food Chain.
> 
> Not anymore, thanks to all industrialists probably including modern 
> Japan who killed them for oil and in such a large scale that came to 
> threaten their survival as a species... they are the victims of 
> industrialzation, not whale eaters.
> 
> It is wrong to blame on them, but for on us in this part of 
> the world. 
> BTW you can blame on Japanese whale hunters who claim to do so for 
> research because I think they are cheating.
> 
> Hope some day the whale's population on this planet comes 
> back to normal 
> that I get to taste soft and ironish black meat of whales... without 
> guilt. :)
> 
> At the same time, we Japanese no longer need whales as one way of 
> aquiring protein because we became so accostom to eat beefs 
> and porks, 
> but that does not necessarily mean becoming civilized.
> 
> I enjoyed the landscapes and people on the ship. It seems 
> that the whole 
>   villege involves with this hunting. Probably they were how 
> my people 
> used to look like in a couple of centuries ago. I like the 
> idea but I am 
> too used to the world of indivisualism that I probably would not feel 
> comfortable in there.
> 
> I wish some picture you shot at the actualy scene of hunting 
> have been 
> taken using longer focals and eliminated extra waters and 
> skies, that I 
> could see the hunter's muscles and splashes and such in a 
> closer look. 
> Its just my opinion.
> 
> Tom Kumagai
> 
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