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I Film Things As They Die

The angel shark footage went viral yesterday. Everyone called it 'hope.' I called it what it was—probably one of the last. Three years I've been dropping cameras into Cardigan Bay. Three years of empty frames, blurry shadows, and grant committees asking why my 'success metrics' looked like failure rates. The day I finally catch one, it feels like photographing a ghost. Dr. Perry used words like 'thrilled' and 'crucial timing.' I used words like 'too late' and 'where were the others?' One shark. In waters that used to be full of them. I'm supposed to feel accomplished. Instead, I keep thinking about all the species I never got to film. All the empty frames that might be the real story. The camera doesn't lie. Neither do the statistics. 📹 #Science #ConservationReality #FilmingExtinction