Award-winning photographer Tim Flach brings a portraiture eye and intention to animal photos. Just amazing.
Colorful Parrot Plumage from Fashion Photographer Solve Sundsbo
Known more for his fashion photography than his nature photography, Swedish photog Solve Sundsbo has this bright collect of colorful parrot feathers.
Azuki the Hedghog goes Mini-camping
Azuki is a little Japanese hedgehog with a huge Instagram following. And this recent camping trip will probably only add to the following.
Nick Brandt's Stunning Photos of Birds Calcified by Lake Natron's Alkaline Waters
I am both horrified and awed by photographer Nick Brandt's images of birds calcified by the overwhelmingly alkaline waters of Lake Natron in Tanzania.
Brandt writes in his new photo/essay book, Across The Ravaged Land.
"I unexpectedly found the creatures — all manner of birds and bats — washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. No one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake.
"The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry."
To add to the effect, he posed the animals as if they were frozen in life.
Zoo Fashion Photos
Barcelona based Yago Partal has this fun and funny photo manipulation series called Zoo Portraits.
Squirrel Sticks His Head In A Jack-o-Lantern
Photographer Max Ellis of Teddington, London:
"My kids love Halloween and beg to start decorating the house and carving pumpkins from about October 1. Obviously cut pumpkins only last a couple of days so I carved a small one to keep them quiet. I thought we could have a bit of fun with it making it hover spookily in the back garden."
Ellis waited days to capture the curios creature donning the pumpkin. What an adorable accident.
Lion Cam Wildlife photographer Steve Mandel
Croatia - Dalmatian
Dogs of the World Cup
Life on White, an animal stock photography site put together their ‘Soccer Nations Dogs’ project in the lead up to the FIFA World Cup in June.
Brazil - Brazilian Mastiff
US - American Staffordshire Terrier
Mexico - Chihuahua
France - French Bulldog
Portugal - Portuguese Water Dog
England - English Bulldog
Germany - German Shepherd
Argentina - Dogo Argentino
The Netherlands - Kooikerhondje
Spain - Spanish Galgo
Japan - Shibu Inu
Stunning Black and White Animal Portraits from Czech Photographer Lukas Holas
Czech photographer Lukas Holas has created this astound series on Behance entitled, Portraits of Animals.
Beautiful Photos of Animals in Winter
What an amazingly beautiful collection of animal photos set in the stark of winter.
via Bored Panda
Fashionable Animals by Miguel Vallinas
Continuing the stylish treatment of animals ( see Zoo Fashion Photos or Underdog: Humanized Dog Portraits), Madrid-based advertising and industrial photographer Miguel Vallinas styles the whole look, boots, scarves and all, for his project Segundas Pieles.
Witty Wild Animal Photo Manipulations
French photographer Thomas Subtil has this witty and charming photo manipulation series "Hakuna Matata" with wild animals from Kenya as its stars.
See also Zoo Fashion Photos
Photos Hungry and Rare White Tigers by Birte Person
Australia-based photographer Birte Person took these astounding photos of the very rare big cats during feeding time at the Singapore Zoo
Person explains:
"They sit in anticipation on the rocks waiting for the first morsel to be thrown. Then it is a huge lunge into the water by all of them. It carries on at a frantic pace until they all get some food."
See also Portraits of Captive Animals
Luminescent Underwater Sea Creatures from Joshua Lambus
Hawaii-based photographer Joshua Lambus has created this collection entitled Blackwater.
Lambus explains:
"Now being underwater I'm inundated with stories, struggles, triumphs. Seeing our fragile ecosystem inch ever closer to the verge of destruction pushes me to continue my work, not only for artistic value, but for a far greater purpose. I hope to tell a story and ask for help for those without a voice."
Also see Gorgeous Underwater Photos of Vibrant Jellyfish
Animals Having Or Becoming Dinner
The circle of life makes for some dramatic photos, from some fantastic photographers...
Portraits of Captive Animals
Cally Whitham, a New Zealand-based photographer, snaps animal portraits in her series Captive. Emerging for the darkness, into the light of personality, the photos are moving and revelatory.
2 - Head-on Animal Portraits
5 - Birds Up Close
From photographer Tamara Kenneally:
"The beauty of animals captivates me.
Their truth, instinct and innocence grounds me.
All I ever wanted to do was to be surrounded by animals, they tell you exactly who they are through their eyes and their behaviour.
Humans create so much pain for so many animals and without a voice they can’t tell their stories. I try to speak for them through my images.
I produce bodies of work which look at animal issues whilst also portraying the beauty of the animal.
I like to represent my subjects as the individual souls and personalities they are.
All animals are worthy of a happy, enriched life. All of them. The dog chained up in the backyard. The chicken at the factory farm. The bird in the cage. The tiger at the zoo. The pig in the sow stall. All of them."
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5 most amazing photo posts of 2012
In no particular order, the 5 most amazing photo posts of 2012.
Award-winning photographer Tim Flach brings a portraiture eye and intention to animal photos. Just amazing.
Russian photographer Andrew Osokin makes the normally invisible visible. There are so many more on his LensArt profile.
Tiltshift does this interesting thing where it both removes a lot of the distance between you and the subject and distorts it past recognition.
4. VIBRANT JELLYFISH PHOTOS
Russian biologist Alexander Semenov amazing images.
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