35 Beautiful Examples Of Animals Photography
Animal photography is probably one of the most dangerous types of photography. The outcome totally depends on the skills of photographer and the time when the shot is taken. A photographer who uses good exposure, color and blur settings along with appropriate shutter speed and focusing techniques can produce stunning photographs.
Animal photographers have to be prepared and be ready for the unknown. They need to study action and language of animals to know every move. Many animal photographers use camouflage to hide themselves and to give photographs a natural and “natural” look. When shooting in wildness, photographers usually shoot with long telephoto lenses from a distance.
Below we feature 35 beautiful examples of animal photography, photos of wild, tamed and other animals. All photographs are linked and lead to the source – the respective photographers. Do not forget to explore further works of these talented photographers. Please notice that the collection presented below is supposed to only give you some inspiration, it can and should be extended; please feel free to suggest links to further resources in the comments to this posts.
You may be interested in the following related posts:
- 50 Stunning Examples Of Reflective Photography
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Further Resources and Sources
- Animals in Love
- Flickr Group: The Wildlife Photography
- Flickr Group: Nature, wildlife and outdoors
- Flickr Group: Wildlife of the world
- Flickr Group: Indian Wildlife Club
- Flickr Group: California Wildlife
- Flickr Group: Wildlife Photography
- National Geographic Animal Photo Galleries
- Photographers Gone Wild Fllickr Pool
- Nature’s Finest Flickr Pool
- Nature Photographs Flickr Pool
- Spectacular Animals Flickr Pool
- Animal Kingdom Flickr Pool
Eddy Munn
February 15th, 2009 2:35 pmBeautiful, I recently bought a DSLR camera, and these have given me some great ideas.
Ian Armstrong
February 15th, 2009 2:53 pmAmazing. Would be great if the type of camera etc. could be displayed.
Great collection again.
Hugh Collier
February 15th, 2009 3:11 pmVery nice and inspiring images. I was recently at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition in London and I was able to see some absolutely stunning examples of wildlife photography. The only problem I often have with these kind of selections is that people usually go for the cute and cuddly side of things. My favourite wildlife images are the raw, wild ones that show an animal in it’s often unforgiving and brutal environment.
My dad is a photographer and over the last couple of years has been getting heavily into the wildlife side of things. You can see some of his work (which includes landscape and portraits too) over at his website
Overall though a very inspiring gallery. I particularly like the Eagle and the Bat.
Jacob
February 15th, 2009 3:17 pmGreat pics! Shooting animals never easy. And only photography! Never hunting…
DKumar M.
February 15th, 2009 3:33 pmBeautiful
Badger
February 15th, 2009 3:45 pmI 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.
SQUIRRELLY
February 15th, 2009 4:14 pmWHERE ARE THE SQUIRELLS??
nasip
February 15th, 2009 6:23 pmFull of life.
Kelly
February 15th, 2009 7:02 pmBeautiful…
not2comply
February 15th, 2009 7:08 pmawesome collection…..
SQUIRRELMAN
February 15th, 2009 7:09 pmYes more squirrels!
Brian Gottier
February 15th, 2009 7:30 pmI especially liked the picture of the crane with sunset background. Beautiful!
sunil
February 15th, 2009 8:41 pmWawoo really great collection :)
Mark Aaron Murnahan
February 15th, 2009 9:01 pmThis is amazing. Some of them are so perfect that they do not even look real. Truly stunning photography!
giles
February 15th, 2009 9:05 pmbreathtaking work. each and every one.
Musings
February 15th, 2009 9:34 pmGreat collection! Awesome captures.
Nature has sooooooo many beautiful colors!!
simon Owen
February 15th, 2009 10:47 pmi love animals – long live animals. nature truly is the base inspiration for the greatest in design. every image in this set is a GEM! Thank you.
Michael
February 15th, 2009 11:34 pmAmazing!
My favorit german photographer:
http://www.april-design.de/
I love her shots.
krishna
February 16th, 2009 12:03 amTruly Awesome captures/pics
matt
February 16th, 2009 12:25 amThe 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
Quakeulf
February 16th, 2009 1:09 amWAAAAT! No guinea pigs? :o
Those cute little buggers are so terribly underrepresented. ;_;
Greg
February 16th, 2009 1:42 amSome 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 :)
Bronson
February 16th, 2009 2:08 amWooo! Amazing.
I can’t believe how beautiful the Owls are!
Wordpress designer
February 16th, 2009 2:55 amGreat Collection, I really liked the Toucans eye photo.
Alex Rainy
February 16th, 2009 3:37 amAmazing!
Shane
February 16th, 2009 4:14 amReally? Don’t you mean can be one of the most dangerous types of photography?
Sorry for being a pedant – nice photos :)
zoel
February 16th, 2009 5:07 amwow.. thatz amazing… i love the lions pic
good stuff, four thumbs for ya
Joanna
February 16th, 2009 5:11 amThis 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 :)
Cédric GIRARD
February 16th, 2009 5:43 amhmmm… I don’t think wildlife photography is dangerous ;-)
I practise aerian photography with ultra light plane and this one is really dangerous ! Not photographying bears or roe deers…
Dan
February 16th, 2009 7:00 amThese 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.
Ozmatx
February 16th, 2009 7:21 amvery nice, love the ladybird!
mike
February 16th, 2009 8:02 amAre they real? no photoshop?
Possumposs
February 16th, 2009 8:48 amthe racooon seems to simple – but i really like the elephants, you can tell they are using a lighting system.. my favorite has to be the crane in the sun- Camera settings have to be perfect and timing aswell- great shot!
Kayla
February 16th, 2009 9:57 amVery good, I love the greyscale monkey on the black background…very creative.
kliker
February 16th, 2009 10:02 amThis site is absolutely amazing.
You are the best!!! I have been visiting this site regularly for about a year almost every day and I just can’t thank you enough for your help.
Thank you very much!!!
meiliken
February 16th, 2009 11:52 am#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.
Olivier
February 16th, 2009 1:10 pmOMG. PON1ES !!
Nathan Clark
February 16th, 2009 1:12 pmThanks 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.
Uğur
February 16th, 2009 1:14 pmbeautiful photos. amazing.
Ken the tech
February 16th, 2009 1:34 pmI like especially the birds pictures. Very colorful.
BY M_EnES
February 16th, 2009 3:06 pmthanks for great compilation
Simon Marlow
February 16th, 2009 3:10 pmWent 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.
See Image
Joan
February 16th, 2009 3:18 pmaaww. the pictures are so beautiful. thanks for sharing. :)
Tony Xia
February 16th, 2009 3:35 pmnice post
Gordy Glen
February 16th, 2009 3:37 pmThanks for Putting my Eagle shot in,Only photoshop used was to crop and slightly darken the bushes behind the bird,#36 Meilican i would love to see these shots your talking about kids/mobile phones i really dont think so!!!
~Terrie K ~
February 16th, 2009 6:53 pmThank 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.
jim
December 2nd, 2009 12:50 amhi？
Felix Ker
February 16th, 2009 8:29 pmAwesome photographs.
B.J.Danilo
February 16th, 2009 10:09 pmsuper picture
Andris
February 17th, 2009 2:22 amI love animals. And I really like the pictures shown here. I spent a lot of my time taking pictures of my pug.
abc
February 17th, 2009 2:27 amAmazing photographs. I want to know if they are edited after shot or not.
Oleg
February 17th, 2009 7:19 amGreat collection! The pictures are so amazing!
Alain
February 17th, 2009 8:13 amA 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.
Fenasi Kerim
February 17th, 2009 8:15 amoh shit wonderful photos
jorge
February 17th, 2009 9:17 amIn 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…
Alice
February 17th, 2009 9:28 amGordy, Terrie, and Nathan… no doubt you three didn’t cheat on photoshop. Not sure about the chameleon, the first pink pelican, the orangutan, the ladybug, and the sunset bird though. To me, those backgrounds are just too good to be true.
PS. I’m in love with all of the eye close-ups. Especially the crocodile.
Sylvia Torres
February 17th, 2009 10:09 amIf you think that this is beautiful, wait to see it useing God’ Eyes.
danny_baltazar
February 17th, 2009 1:15 pmBeautiful x2
Matt Palmer
February 17th, 2009 2:13 pmAnyone 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
Gordy Glen
February 17th, 2009 4:46 pmThank you Alice,Any one else can see my other Eagle shots just by clicking on my name above the shot,My photostream has the shot before and after the Scream!!! LOL Thanks to all that have viewed my shot’s
Ignatz Horowitz
February 18th, 2009 6:40 am“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.
Donny Reza
February 18th, 2009 10:24 amAwww, so cute! Beautiful…
Robert Taylor
February 18th, 2009 11:27 amSome 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/
Mats
February 18th, 2009 12:14 pmI would add this photo taken by Åsmund Seeberg as well:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vasano/3066573844/
Amazing Lizard photo!
bolix
February 18th, 2009 8:07 pmoh my.. beautiful photos, more cats please the bigger the better :D
baran
February 18th, 2009 8:45 pmwhat a beautiful !
yen
February 18th, 2009 11:06 pmgreat pics…
Ali
February 18th, 2009 11:56 pmGreat pictures,
Thanks
name requred
February 19th, 2009 9:52 pmdamn the croc photo was intensely good.
Manish
February 21st, 2009 8:35 pmWow!! so amazing n stunning photographs..! you guys always smash.!
thanks for this post ! :)
Syntax
February 23rd, 2009 2:08 amWhat the fuck is “Animals Photography?”
Willy Yanto Wijaya
February 24th, 2009 9:24 pmAmazing!! Just wondering whether the photos had been digitally re-processed…
Willy Yanto Wijaya
Pål
February 25th, 2009 10:28 amPlease have a look at the stunning photos from Nick Brandt at his web page (http://www.nickbrandt.com/). You will be impressed!
zara karthi
May 30th, 2011 10:42 pmYaa. I Love his capture always…
Brant Schroeder
February 25th, 2009 1:09 pmMakes me want to go out and take some pictures.
Digital photography
February 26th, 2009 5:53 amA great collection of images. Thank you for the show case.
Ryan
February 27th, 2009 10:57 pmThese are great shots, and I am really impressed that you took the time to flag the name (or flickr name) of the photographer, with links. Most bloggers don’t take that small courtesy. So, I’ll be back to view more later!
COsmin
March 1st, 2009 8:02 amwonderful …
charlotte poblador
March 4th, 2009 5:40 pmwow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jennifer Cote
March 5th, 2009 8:52 amI 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!”
shushank.goyal@gmail.com
March 6th, 2009 8:39 pmits very beautiful images of the net
Danny D
March 7th, 2009 8:15 amIt 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
Srik
April 12th, 2009 4:28 amPhotographs look good. But lots of photoshop in place – which makes them more works of digital art rather than photographs.
Cheri
May 1st, 2009 9:48 amThanks 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…
Zylar
May 7th, 2009 3:56 pmI adore the ladybug pictre. It’s so cute.
hamid.gh from iran
May 17th, 2009 1:19 amits really very beautiful images. Thanks
Good luck
jerry jeon
May 21st, 2009 1:01 amwonderful!
I was really surprise!
kami
May 27th, 2009 11:09 pmits so beautiful and i am happy to see those pictures.
thanks
bikramjit halder
September 24th, 2009 6:48 amit is amazing , i am spellbound.
bikramjit halder
September 24th, 2009 6:53 ami am a true animal lover,it’s amazing so i am spellbound.
julio***
October 2nd, 2009 7:38 amWhat the heck!!!!!NO KOALAS!!! how dare you!!! Im done with you people. have a horrible day!`
subbu
October 14th, 2009 11:49 pmwow great pictures, its so beautiful and i am happy to see those pictures.
thanks for ur best animal pics
subbu
devanand
November 7th, 2009 9:46 amrealy this is amezing
Naggary
December 31st, 2009 1:55 amThey are really awesome , i like
manibabu
February 6th, 2010 10:22 pmrealy this is amezing
MylaLu
February 21st, 2010 12:06 amAbsolutely breathtaking! All of these photos are amazing! Bravo
becca
February 26th, 2010 12:44 pmthese are so beautiful wow this is so impressive
AB
April 14th, 2010 4:18 amgreat collection
anushree
April 18th, 2010 3:01 amthe photographer is awesome mean he click such a wonderful pcs i just love him man :) :)
sahar
May 28th, 2010 8:07 amI Love animals & tank you. Photos are very nice.
Mazid Khan
June 16th, 2010 4:46 amAwesome. I dont have words to explain the beauties of the gallery
tolessa gemeda
June 29th, 2010 10:49 pmthese pictures are highly interesting