Category: Animals
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Puppies and Kittens Have Imaginative Adventures With Household Objects
Now here’s an ultimate explosion of cuteness: a creative advertising campaign, that features both adorable puppies and kittens! Titled Life is Adventure, the photos series portray little fellows embarking on various adventures, set up from props on the ground. Created by graphic designer and art director Marek Farkas and photographer Miro Minarovich, the series was created as…
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The Most Beautifully Terrifying Spiders You Never Knew Existed
Wow! Ick. Oooh. Whaaaaaaat. No. No. NOPE. That pretty much summarizes our reactions while looking at these incredible macro shots of spiders photographed by Nicky Bay who lives and works in Singapore. The boundless biodiversity found on the country’s 64 islands includes a vast array of insects and arachnids, many of which Bay has painstakingly documented up close…
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Jumping Spiders Wearing Water Drops as Fancy Hats
Even if you have arachnophobia, don’t be too quick to close this page yet! Jumping spiders have got to be the cutest spiders of all. More than that, they were recently photographed wearing tiny water droplets as their hats, and that way completely denying their image of being threatening and scary. Uda Dennie, 33-year-old photographer…
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Macro Photos of Dew-Covered Insects by David Chambo
Over the past few months photographer David Chambon has been working on a phenomenal series of macro photos featuring insects covered in tiny water droplets. The poor little insects covered in water and dew provide a truly magnificent subject which we haven’t seen before. These are a few of our favorites but you can see dozens more…
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Snail slides across sleeping frog in slowest game of leapfrog ever
To go at a ‘snail’s pace’ is rarely considered a good thing. But when a snail decided to slide across a sleeping frog, it’s very slow and steady rate probably saved it’s life – because it didn’t wake the amphibian, which normally feasts on the molluscs. This snail enjoyed a long game of leapfrog as it…
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Birds made from typewriter parts
Artist Jeremy Mayer just completed this beautiful set of swallows using assembled typewriter parts. The birds required Mayer to find multiple sets of identical parts adding a significant amount of time to sourcing materials, but as a happy accident the artist also discovered his design allowed for the wings to partially retract. If you’re unfamiliar with Mayer’s work…
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Taking dog grooming and Sesame Street to a whole new level
When it comes to Extreme Dog Grooming, Kobe the poodle is the top dog. Transformed into a tribute to Sesame Street – one part Big Bird, another part Elmo with his own Oscar the Grouch in a trash can to keep him company, he won the Extreme Dog Grooming competition in Pasadena, FL earlier this year.…
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Nick Brandt – The beauty of East Africa in black and white photography
Nick Brandt shoots exclusively in Africa and is one of the world’s most prolific wildlife photographers. His amazing black and white images of elephants, lions, and cheetahs can be found in galleries and private collections all over the world. At 26 he moved to Los Angeles from his home city of London to pursue a…
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Windswept images of dogs flying through space
USA-based Benjamin Grelle is a blogger known by his Internet moniker, The Frogman. He has recently published some pictures of dogs, that seem like they are flying through space in a spacecraft. The series is titled Warp Dogs, and in it, several different real dogs seem to be flying through a space orbit. These images were created by cleverly digitally…
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Amazing photos of baby animals in the womb
We’ve all seen ultrasound pictures of human babies, but the animal pictures that follow go way beyond the grainy, black and white images we are used to. These amazing photos of baby animals in the womb were captured by scientists using a combination of high-tech ultrasound scans, tiny cameras and computer graphics, and were featured on National…