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Amazing. Would be great if the type of camera etc. could be displayed.
Great collection again.

Great pics! Shooting animals never easy. And only photography! Never hunting…

I could NEVER take photos like this even with the right gear, so people who can, I admire you, but the picture of the dog as an example of ‘Beautiful’ photography. Not so sure on that one.

Gotta love Reyes pic of the monkey. Great moment captured in b&w. No colour needed there to convey the beauty in that shot.

Full of life.

awesome collection…..

I especially liked the picture of the crane with sunset background. Beautiful!

This is amazing. Some of them are so perfect that they do not even look real. Truly stunning photography!

Great collection! Awesome captures.
Nature has sooooooo many beautiful colors!!

Amazing!

My favorit german photographer:
http://www.april-design.de/
I love her shots.

The one marked as “unknown” is part of Tim Flach’s portfolio the photos below link to his website which include the picture,

Great collection all round

Some really great photos there, especially of the lion, just love lions – I have always liked this one Link as well.

My only query would be how much after processing was done for each photo. Having seen so many photos RAW to used it is quite amazing to see the difference from original to end product, seems there is no truth to any photos these days – but I guess that is why they call photography art :)

Great Collection, I really liked the Toucans eye photo.

Animal photography is probably one of the most dangerous types of photography

Really? Don’t you mean can be one of the most dangerous types of photography?

Sorry for being a pedant – nice photos :)

This is a spectacular collection. I especially liked the bat and the eyes of an aligator. I admire people who not only venture into wild but also take wonderful pictures there. thanks :)

These are very nice photos, but I would like to know which of them, if not all of them, are HDR. High Dynamic Range photos to a true nature photographer is cheating. A picture should tell a story, not lie. What the photographer saw is not what is represented.

There is a difference between cleaning up a shot and using HDR to completely change the shot.
All my photographs are true shots. Exposure, and noise reduction may be used, but no extreme photoshop tricks.

Are they real? no photoshop?

Very good, I love the greyscale monkey on the black background…very creative.

#30 Dan said it right. None of those pictures are natural. They’ve all had Photoshop trickery done to them because the colors are not natural. I myself work in photography and photoshop, and can pick it out no matter how well it is hidden. A kid with a camera in his phone can take a picture like this, and use photoshop to add the colors and lighting in for the effect these have. Please stop encouraging these people for not really having any skill. It takes away from the people who do.

Thanks for including my photo in this list!

To answer a few of the comments, I corrected the exposure and nothing more. I used a 50mm/1.8, was sitting about 2 feet from the bird and spent 20 minutes baiting him closer and closer.

I like especially the birds pictures. Very colorful.

Went to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natual History Museum in London last week, below is one picture that i thought absolutely stunning.

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nice post

Thank you for including my Merlin the Lion King picture. This was taken using available natural light in the afternoon behind a glass window at the Philadelphia zoo. It was cropped and sharpened; it’s not an HDR and no Photoshop ‘tricks’ were used. This lion truly is as proud as he looks here.

super picture

Amazing photographs. I want to know if they are edited after shot or not.

A lot of these pictures are very nice.
They do have sharp contrast and vivid colors.
These days contrast is king.
I prefer black and white and less contrast but this is only a matter of taste.

Most photographers are showing great skills notwithtanding my personal taste.

In my blog recently today i publish a post with wild animals photos in black and white from the portafolio of nick brandt.

is a amazing gallery i hope you like so than this amazing collection of SM is great.
animales salvajes

best regards…

If you think that this is beautiful, wait to see it useing God’ Eyes.

Anyone that says that Animal Photography is dangerous probably hasn’t spent much time shooting punk gigs.

The main things that could add to the danger are the type of the animal, and the political situation in the country where those animal photos need to be taken.

Maybe you guys should do a feature on live music photography, would be happy to chat to you about experiences/technicalities of doing the job.

http://www.okletsgo.com.au

“High Dynamic Range photos to a true nature photographer is cheating.”
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All you folks who claim using HDR techniques is “cheating”…it’s painfully obvious you have never worked in a real darkroom. Never pushed your film, never dodged and burned, strictly “straight” photography, eh? Took your film to the drugstore or sent it off to York, eh? Never, EVER did ANY manipulation to ANY of your images, eh? Not even a ND filter, eh? I won’t even bring up the stupid “camera phone” crack. That was just plain ignorant.

Some superb images here thats for sure..
My image of the “Toucans Eye” was almost as shot…..just a levels tweak thats all.
I’m pleased its on display but would have liked to have been asked for permission first.
Other images of mine can be seen at http://roberttaylor.smugmug.com/

oh my.. beautiful photos, more cats please the bigger the better :D

great pics…

damn the croc photo was intensely good.

What the fuck is “Animals Photography?”

Please have a look at the stunning photos from Nick Brandt at his web page (http://www.nickbrandt.com/). You will be impressed!

A great collection of images. Thank you for the show case.

wonderful …

I love it. Now that I have grandkids, I find that taking time with them to pour over the amazing pictures of God’s creation online… is time well spent! (I hadn’t taken time for that for awhile, so this is good).
I’m amazed at what a big impression it makes on my 4-year-old grandson, too. He says, “Grandma, let’s find more cool pictures of animals online!”

It would be so nice if man could be as peaceful as these animals . To them color does not matter. We would all live such better lives.
Great Photos. No matter fixed or not still nice to look at. Thanks

Thanks for posting my picture of a Douc Langur, however it says I am unknown and their is someone else stamp on the bottom of it..when you click on it it does say, “god Bless” by Cheri…..I am not on that website and a little confused as why it has that stamp on it…

its really very beautiful images. Thanks
Good luck

its so beautiful and i am happy to see those pictures.
thanks

it is amazing , i am spellbound.

What the heck!!!!!NO KOALAS!!! how dare you!!! Im done with you people. have a horrible day!`

realy this is amezing