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While you may never have heard his name, it's certainly possible you've seen the work of Harry Whittier Frees. The photographer, known for his anthropomorphic portraits of animals, was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1879.
His timeless photos evoke a wide variety of emotions and display timeless characteristics....
The snow leopard is an incredibly rare animal—even spotting one in the wild is an infrequent occurrence. And now, for what appears to be the first time ever, an image has been recorded of one making a kill.
Snow leopards are not only few in number, but are also famed for their stealth. Adam Riley of Indri Ultimate...
In a move to try and get more people adopting rescue animals, Dallas Pets Alive has teamed up with ad agency Dieste to bring animals to your Instagram selfies. They've dubbed the movement #muttbombing, and they photoshop a dog that's up for adoption into people's selfies that they post online.
The images are going up...
Rhode Island School of Design professor Dennis Hlynsky's Small Brains on Mass is an ongoing project looking at the way small brained animals flock in groups. While primarily focused on birds, Hlynsky has also tracked ants, flies, and fish. And while studying mass movements may not stand out too much in itself, what's...
In 2011, photographer Carli Davidson started taking photos of dogs shaking water off their faces — and found herself with an instant viral hit. Now, two years later, Davidson has put together a book of some of these wonderful images, a collection of 130 different photos of dogs swinging their faces at high velocity. And,...
Shooting wild animals takes a certain amount of patience, but National Geographic photographer Steve Winter has put even the most tolerant photographer to shame with a photo of a mountain lion in Los Angeles that took him 12 months to capture.
Winter made it his mission...
Happy Friday, everyone! Here's a nice story to set you off on your weekend photography adventures. It seems that Mario Aldecoa was photographing alligators during a night shoot at the Everglades Alligator Farm eight months ago, when one aggressive gator leapt out of the water and grabbed Aldecoa's entire camera rig,...
Remember Seth Casteel, the photographer behind those viral underwater dog photographs from last year? He's now turned his skills working with animals in a new direction. Second Chance Photos is his new initiative to get better photos of rescued animals, and help them find homes.
Pets often come into shelters in pretty...
Serenah Hodson is a pet photographer but she may have found her greatest muse with the strange-looking Sphynx cat. Hodson, who is from New Zealand but is now based in Australia, is drawn to photographing these hairless felines both for their bizarreness and their unusual beauty.
While hairless cats have been around...
Photographer Dan Milner learned the hard way that it's best to keep a safe distance from the wild animals you intend to photograph. In the below video from Live Leak, Milner stops by the side of the road to photograph a stag -- which is an adult male deer without a mate -- while crouching just a few feet away from the...
Swiss photographer Sebastian Magnani isn't exactly sure where the idea for his wonderful "Underdogs" series came from but it may have been divine inspiration.
"It was the flash of an idea, like the beginning of the universe," he told us about his anthropomorphic portraits, which combine dogs and their owners into a...
What is it about GoPro cameras that make them so appetizing to wild animals? In February, we showed you this crazy clip of a lion munching on a GoPro mounted on a miniature robotic tank.
Now, here's a Grizzly trying to make a snack out of naturalist and wildlife documentarian Brad Josephs' GoPro, which he had set up on...
Photographer Zach Rose of Driftwood Photography has made his Instagram account massively popular by putting a unique spin on photographs of pets and their owners. Rather than just snapping a cute shot of someone holding their cat, Rose instead uses an innovative combination of forced perspective and multiple devices to...
Ok, here's a bit of Friday fun for you. In this video clip from the BBC series "Last Chance to See," actor Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine travel to New Zealand to photograph one of the last remaining kakapo, which is an extremely rare, flightless parrot.
When Carwardine lies down to photograph the kakapo,...
Yes, perhaps, the Internet is filled with too many cat photos but a new series of images called "Big Cat, Small Cat," offers a clever take on everyday feline snapshots. The series, captured by photographer George Logan, is part of a new marketing campaign from Whiskas pet food.
The computer manipulated photos show...