50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic Exhibit
We all know how awesome the National Geographic photographs are. Our challenge was to pick the one that we liked the best from the exhibit. I picked the one about the baby albatross. The albatross had died and its stomach was opened up to reveal all the things it had been fed by its parent. It was full of non-digestible items like pieces of plastic, The top of a toothpaste cap, the ring from a milk jug, two whole bic lighters, all kinds of shrapnel. The little bird just starved to death. It says a lot about the cost of our modern lifestyle and the silent price being paid. And hopefully it will motivate us to be better stewards of our resources and make less of an impact on the environment.
The Indians have a saying about treading lightly on the earth.
And that's the point of the exhibit. It is to teach, inspire, to educate and to motivate.