Not all pics of nature are meant to go on the cover. And that’s totally fine. All the not-so-fortunate snaps of wildlife have a safe place to go where their author’s lack of skills will be much appreciated.
We’re talking about the widely popular Facebook group called Crap Wildlife Photography where 399.7K members share iconic images in their own very crappy way.
From very out-of-focus photos to the worst timing possible, these awesome photos have surely hit the bottom of the barrel where photography standards used to be. Enjoy the hilarity with the newest batch of crappy goodness from Crap Wildlife Photography, and be sure to check out part 1, 2, 3, and 4.
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#1 Found The Most Majestic Anemone On The Beach The Other Night. It Reminds Me Of Something, But I Can’t Quite Put My Finger On It…
Image credits: Steph Renaud
#2 I Knew There Were Raccoons In The Tree But I Couldn’t See What They Were Doing Until The Flash Came On/Pictures Came Out…
Image credits: Lindsay Sletten
#3 Bottoms Up!…might Get This One Printed On A Canvas
Image credits: Ellen Hickey
Previously, Bored Panda reached out to the moderator team of the Crap Wildlife Photography Facebook group and found out more about their widely popular online community.
The representative of the group told us that following Bored Panda’s June article on their group, the community was joined by 18k new members. “Actual join requests were around 26k, but the other 8k people didn’t answer the short joining questionnaire so didn’t become members at that time,” they explained.
Meanwhile, the founder Tristan Kennedy said that he created Crap Wildlife Photography after someone from another group, Crap Bird Photography, asked if there was a separate group dedicated to all kinds of wildlife. It sparked an idea in Tristan to create a whole new Facebook group since nothing similar existed at the time.
#4 We Broadcast The Possum Signal Only In The Most Dire Of Garbage Emergencies
Image credits: Amy Fisher Rosaaen-McDonald
#5 From A Couple Years Ago While Checking Wood Duck Boxes For Work. This Lil Thing And It’s Friends Jumped Out (They Nest In The Boxes For The Winter). I Proceeded To Freak Out Because I Didnt Want It Crawling Up Inside My Pants. My Coworker Found It And Took A Picture For Posterior Posterity
Image credits: Shasta Slade
#6 I Was Photographing A Penguin, Put The Telephoto Lens On And It Waddled Over To Stand Less Than A Meter Away So All I Could Get In The Frame Was Its Foot
Image credits: Steve Ransome
Over the past few years, the group was steadily growing, but the recent surge in new numbers was evoked by Bored Panda featuring a selection of the community’s submissions.
“Numbers increased from about 15,000 in January to about 45,000 at the start of April. The first Bored Panda article triggered a large spike in numbers—our group numbers spiked from about 45,000 to 100,000 in a few days.” In January, a whopping 300,000 new members joined and Crap Wildlife Photography became somewhat of a household name for poor photos featuring nature and/or animals.
The group’s success has to do with the fact that it’s one of the very few online communities that celebrate all the very bad efforts in photography. “The ‘good’ photo groups aren’t interested in bad photography, of course, so it gives people somewhere to share their lesser-quality photos and have a laugh at themselves,” Tristan explained.
#7 Dearly Beloved, We Are Gathered Here Today…..
Image credits: Emma Atticus Harper
#8 I Nearly Bumped Into This Blubbery Rock Yesterday And Let Me Tell You, When My Wife Pointed Out What It Was I Felt Very Close To Death. The Irony Is That We Had Just Given Up Spotting Any Elephant Seals After A Long Beach Walk Lol
Image credits: Amy Adair-Behr
#9 My Teenaged Son Went To The Coast. I Asked To See The Pictures He Took, And This Was Literally It
Image credits: Rachel Heffington Pross
#10 Heard A Noise At The Door. Thinking It Was The Friendly Raccoon I’d Seen A Few Times This Week, I Got My Phone Camera Ready To Get It’s Picture. However, I Opened The Door And Saw This
Image credits: Lulis Leal
#11 From Vancouver, The Bird Was Parked On The Hood Of My Car, Shot At F16, Giving Lots Of Depth Of Field. Scary!
Image credits: AP Hovasse
#12 What’s Your Problem?!
Image credits: Jonica Palmer
#13 Just An Alligator And Turtle Eating Spaghetti Together. Yes They Had A Lady And The Tramp Moment. Mont Belvieu Texas.
Image credits: Amber Rose
#14 Oink
Image credits: Beth Perry
#15 We Decided To Go With A Less Traditional Tree Topper This Year
Image credits: Brandi Rose
#16 I Got More Than I Paid For In This Shot
Image credits: Dusty Repaskey
#17 Note To Self, Make Sure Your Trunk Closes When You Hit The Button!
Image credits: Courtney Van Velse
#18 The Majestic Blacktail Deer. Play Catch They Said. It’ll Be Fun They Said. **no Need To Worry! If You Are Unaware, Bucks Lose And Regrow Their Antlers Every Year. This Guy Will Only Have To Look Like A Dork For A Couple More Months
Image credits: Taylor Borth
#19 Behold My Favorite *crap* Wildlife Photo Thus Far
Image credits: Autumn Schrock
#20 Notice A Couple Of Really Tiny Deer On Top Of This Fence…
Image credits: George Silvaney
#21 Nudist Squirrels Of The Northern Bruce Peninsula. This Guy Has Been Around For 2 Years Now. He Doesn’t Have Mange, As His Skin Is “Clean” (No Sores & Dry Skin Associated With Mange), Just Genetically Hairless. Hoping To See Him Come Springtime!!
Image credits: Katrina Page
#22 If You’ve Ever Wondered What A Happy Scalepuppy Looks Like, Here’s A Visual For You
Image credits: Kristen Trueman
#23 If 2020 Was An Eagle
Image credits: David Chang
#24 Omg Please Caption These Eyebrows! Yes, He Just Got Busted Eating From The Bird Feeder!
Image credits: Michelle Evans
#25 Was Supposed To Be A Pelican
Image credits: Emma McAleese
#26 My Dad Has Dementia And Can’t Remember What Squirrels Are Called So He Calls Them A-Holes. Turns Out The A-Holes Are Everywhere
Image credits: MacKenzie Ferguson
#27 I’m New To This Group, Does This Count?
Image credits: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1479326849031169/permalink/2515009218796255/
#28 Derek Put The Seagull Down
Image credits: Emma George
#29 My Friends Cat Bailey Escaped His House. So I Set Up A Trail Cam. He Was Hangin With Da Big Boys In The Back Yard
Image credits: Joie Mattioli
#30 My First Posting
Image credits: Leslie A. Sarazan
#31 No Outside Light On When I Got Home, Cursed Husband For Leaving Pipe I Tripped Over On Path To The Front Door. Once Inside, Husband Vehemently Denied Any Pipe Misdemeanor, So I Turned On Outside Light To Prove Him Wrong…
Image credits: Cindy Lane
#32 Raven Stole A Burrito Smh Can’t Have [crap] In London
Image credits: Alice Yu
#33 May I Present, “Moose At 86mph”
Image credits: Molly Eccleston
#34 Scary Little Egret From Egypt
Image credits: Doaa Belal Abdelhamed
#35 Behold The Majestic Red-Tailed Hawk Update: Hawk Is Fine
Image credits: Michelle Bartelheimer
#36 Waited A Long Time To Get That Iconic Shot Of A Big Family Of Meerkats Standing At Attention.
Image credits: Renee Owens
#37 On A Trip To Antarctica, I Was Fortunate To Witness A Gentoo Penguin Wedding.
Image credits: Shelley Sandusky
#38 Captured A Little Spring In His Step After Being Fed
Image credits: Blujay Emnott
#39 Not A Penguin This Time At The Fence… But Equally Cute. Curious Elephant Seal Pup
Image credits: Alana-Jayne Moore
#40 Spent About 25 Minute Slowly Crawling On My Stomach Through Frozen Mud On A Cold Winters Morning, Lining Up The Perfect Shot For The Last Exposure On My Analogue Camera, After Standing Magestically For The Entire Time I Was Crawling, The Second I Take The Shot It Looks Directly At Me And Lets Out The Loudest Burp I’ve Every Heard.
Image credits: Sebastian Stern
#41 A Male Hooded Merganser Duck. The Features Weren’t Very Clear, So I Tidied The Photo Up A Bit
Image credits: Laurel Barnett
#42 We All Know That Quokkas Are The Happiest Animals Alive, Right? But How Do They Sleep When Not Smiling Down The Lens Of A Camera? With No F*cks Given.
Image credits: Ania Kay
#43 The Fattest Squirrel I Have Ever Seen. He Lives In Our Yard And Eats The Neighbor’s Chicken Feed And Chases Off Any Birds, Bunnies, Or Other Squirrels That Try To Get In His Space
Image credits: Liz Fischer
#44 Add A Face
Image credits: Quinn Pin
#45 Managed To Snap This Shot Of What I Believe To Be A Bobcat
Image credits: Chris Altis
#46 So This Guy Was Stalking Me At Work One Day
Image credits: Cheyenne Wright-Austin
#47 Bug Photobombs Are The Best!!
Image credits: Ayn Generes
#48 What An Unusual Bird On My Deck This Morning!
Image credits: Ann Marie Jacobson
#49 Spotted This Guy While Delivering Parcels Down On The Beachfront Community. C A M O F L A G E
Image credits: Freya Hogan
#50 Amazing Photo Of My First Hammerhead Shark
Image credits: Roxy Sylvester
#51 Timing Is Everything.. Nailed It
Image credits: Robin Moon
#52 It Was Amazing Experience, Less Than 3 Hours Ago In Jackson Hole, Wy. Pretty Sure This Is Brought To You By The Christmas Star
Image credits: Kimberly Kimrey
#53 Single Pink Male Seeks Companion For Long Walks On The Beach. If You Like Pina Coladas, And Getting Caught In The Rain…
Image credits: Meridith Anzulis
#54 Just A Couple Of Vultures In The Hospital Courtyard. Nothing To Worry About.
Image credits: Hami Sayyadioskoie
#55 $3,500 Camera/Lens? Check. Rare Moment Of Interaction? Check.timeless Photo Of Kia Sportage? Check
Image credits: Malachi Aaron
#56 Me: Wow, There’s An Otter In My Backyard Otter: Wow, There’s A Human In My Front Yard
Image credits: Kate Peek
#57 Look Who I Found In My Patio!
Image credits: Paola Parigi
#58 I’m Here To Break Up Fat Squirrel Day with This Majestical Rainbow Pelicorn Photo.
Image credits: Amber Hays
#59 The Time I Took A Picture Of Two American Goldfinches Through A Window Screen And It Came Out Looking Like A Cross Stitch.
Image credits: Ana Maria Vasconez
#60 This Is How We Do It In The Big Leagues Of Crap Photography.
Image credits: Sasan Beni
#61 In My Defense, He Was A Fast Little Bugger.
Image credits: Jena Van Wagner
#62 Ok Then
Image credits: Irit Katz
#63 My Dog: Fren? Me: No, Not Friend. My Dog: May Be Shy Fren. I Watch. Me: Facepalm
Image credits: Jenny Anderson
#64 So I Had A Pet Door….. How Many Other People Can Say They Had A Raccoon Come In And Sleep On Their Couch For Days With Three Cats And Share Food Bowl. Then Had To Get Rid Of Couches Cause Raccoon Kept Peeing On It
Image credits: Heather Nichols
#65 My Dad Has Dementia And One Of His Simple Pleasures Is Watching The Birds. Behold The Majestic Bluejay Dad Calls Scruffneck
Image credits: MacKenzie Ferguson
#66 Posted This On A Bird Watching Group Thinking It Was A Cracking Photo. Not A Single Person Liked It At All. Must Be Crapper Than I Thought
Image credits: Rachel Balding
#67 I Know My Memory Isn’t What It Used To Be But I Could Swear That Wasn’t There When I Hung Up The Wreath
Image credits: Lisa Snow
#68 We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Twig
Image credits: Leigh Schmidt
#69 Hello Everyone. I’m A New Member From Vietnam. This Is A Fish I See When I’m Working On River Bank
Image credits: Trần Hồng Nam
#70 Hello, 911…i’d Like To Report Someone Ringing My Doorbell And Mooning Me…
Image credits: Patricia Lalonde Snyder
#71 Went To Watch The Starling Murmuration…. I Think They Were Trying To Tell Me Something
Image credits: James Lowery
#72 I Got Married Yesterday At Garden Of The Gods And I Had To Take A Picture With The Deer In The Background
Image credits: Anahi Cazares
#73 Apparently My Husband Didn’t Think I Could See The Giant Herd Of Bison Right By Our Car. At Least His Hand Is Out Of Focus….
Image credits: Rachael Keen Kersavage
#74 Definitely Need A New Feeder
Image credits: Cathie Hailer Giglio
#75 Studies Show 1 In 8 Bison Will Be Decapitated By Poachers And Left To Wander Headless Across The Prairie For The Rest Of Their Lives.
Image credits: Lauren Reid
#76 The Soft And Intricate Feathers Of A Parakeet
Image credits: Alex Fish
#77 A Little Nut Flavoured Coffee Anyone ?
Image credits: Renata Quattro
#78 I’m A Crappy Photographer, But This One I Had To Share. Evergreen Co.
Image credits: Lisa Marek Bessette
#79 A Magnificent Mola Mola (Or Sunfish). And, No, He Is Not Dead — Despite Appearances. Funny, But The Whale-Watching Company Chose Not To Feature This Great Capture In Their Trip Photos Of The Day
Image credits: Nicole Cornett
#80 I Wish To Submit For Your Consideration Weird Flat Hissing Doggy
Image credits: Camille Ailey
#81 I Don’t Always Take Pictures Of Coopers Hawks In A Birdbath, But When I Do They’re Flying Away, Obstructed By A Pole, And My Neighbor Is Ripping Out All His Carpet.
Image credits: Halle Ritter
#82 My Sister Does Not Wish To Share This Gem Herself. But She Made This Mistake Of Sharing It With Me For My Own Free Use!
Image credits: Viktoria Kristbergs
#83 Unexpected Wildlife Photography…
Image credits: David Mitchell
#84 This Is The Weirdest Photo I Have Ever Taken! It Hasn’t Been Edited At All
Image credits: Mitsos Psaras
#85 My First Pic Of A Racing Snail!! Stayed On The Car For An 8 Mile Journey
Image credits: Nicole Caroline North
#86 While Cleaning Out Some Space In The Refrigerator To House Our Hello Fresh Dinners, We Had An Extra Guest
Image credits: Gretchen Kron Dust
#87 ‘Imposter! Imposter On The Beach!!!’ This Gentoo Penguin – Clearly Not Impressed With The Surprise Visit By A Chinstrap Penguin.
Image credits: Alana-Jayne Moore
#88 There Was Some Sort Of Majestic Animal Breaching In Front Of Me
Image credits: Liz BG
#89 Does It Count As Crap If It Made Me Crap Myself? Asking For A Friend
Image credits: Rachel Decatur
#90 We’re Getting Babies! How Cute!
Image credits: Kinga Wołos-Zachmeier
#91 Sleepy Sky Puppies. Not A Particularly Crappy Photo, But If You Could Smell It! 100s, Possibly 1000s Of Sky Puppies Roost Here During The Day, Then In The Evening 100s Of Bin Chickens Return To Nest In The Same Trees The Sky Puppies Left
Image credits: Shane Foster
#92 Hi I Was Told This Would Be The Perfect Picture For This Group By A Few People So Here Ya Go Found These Love Birds In My Front Yard This Morning
Image credits: Jenni Lawhorn
#93 There’s A Reason Birds Are Always Side Profiled
Image credits: Rhiannon Sara
#94 I’ve Lived In Wyoming Most Of My Life, And I’ve Only Seen A Mountain Lion 2 Times. Now It’s 2-1/4 Times.
Image credits: Peter Noah Thomas
#95 So I’m Sure I’ll Get Some “Not Crap” Comments Which I Agree With In Principle, Except I Really Was Trying To Get A Picture Of The Top Part Of The Heron Too!
Image credits: KM SH
#96 Anyone Know This Species Of Squirrel?
Image credits: Ree Ree
#97 Always Looking For A Little Help When I’m Working On Someone’s Car
Image credits: Harv Vander Griend
#98 I Was Told This Would Be The Perfect Picture For This Group By A Few People So Here Ya Go Found These Love Birds In My Front Yard This Morning
Image credits: Jenni Lawhorn
#99 Photobomb Level 100 …tried To Get A Nice Pic Of The Pier!
Image credits: Alana Bubb
#100 Floating Pigeon!
Image credits: Melissa Newell
#101 Crappy Wildlife
Image credits: Shira Silverberg
#102 Hold My Beer, I Am Going In…
Image credits: Nino Mskhiladze
#103 Ummmm, You Seem To Have A Little Something On Your Face… (Crappy, Cause It’s Got Some Crap On It’s Face
Image credits: Camilla Holmvall
#104 A Most Magnificent Bird Of Prey.
Image credits: Sarah Dailey
#105 Had A Visitor Today In The Shed.
Image credits: Jason Fryman
#106 My Son Came Into My Bedroom To Tell Me There Was A “Mouse In His Room”
Image credits: Allison Edlund
#107 My Cats Were Going Nuts In The Bathroom Over This!
Image credits: Elizabeth Morris
#108 Pair Of Bison From The Overlook Ft Niobrara Wildlife Refuge, Amazing Creatures!
Image credits: Kelly Skrivan
#109 Carp Wildlife Photography, No Pun Intended
Image credits: Barbara Trinilea Polonara
#110 A Magnificent Mola Mola (Or Sunfish). And, No, He Is Not Dead — Despite Appearances. Funny, But The Whale-Watching Company Chose Not To Feature This Great Capture In Their Trip Photos Of The Day
Image credits: Nicole Cornett
#111 Squirrel Eating Onion Ring While Wearing It. Taken On An Upstate NY College Campus.
Image credits: Susan Smeby
#112 Pretty Much The Best Photo I’ve Ever Taken.
Image credits: Mark Rosenblatt
#113 I Don’t Usually Have Spiders For Friends, But Something About This Jumpy Boy Is… Sorta Cute So He Can Stay.
Image credits: Rigney James Marius
#114 This Is Not The Bird I Was Hoping For When I Put My Bird Bath Out… But I’m Not Going Out There To Tell Him.
Image credits: Beth Durham Todd
#115 When A 999 Call Is Made, Regarding ‘Broken Wood’
Image credits: Dermot Hoyne
#116 Thankfully, I Mastered My New Camera’s Exposure Settings Just In Time For The Bald Eagle To Fly By.
Image credits: Tessa Pagones
#117 This Is Freddy, Our Resident Toad. He Got His Own Pad This Summer And Was Pretty Happy About It
Image credits: Sarah Tyler
#118 Behold. The Majestic White Tailed Deer. In Eatontown, Nj
Image credits: Sarah Anne
#119 One Of The Majestic Wild Mustangs Of Western Nevada
Image credits: Coleen Brooks
#120 I Scared The Piss Out Of Him
Image credits: Keirston Rinehart
#121 This Was The Last Photo I Took Before I Was Chased Across A Hilly Field, Screaming And Running As Fast As My Legs Could Carry Me
All I had wanted was a closer hawk photo. I did not see this beast in the grass. My husband was in the car on the side of the road, and he responded to my screams by rolling the windows up as I barreled towards him in superhuman flight whilst the badger snarled and gained on me. He thought it was bees or hornets (and left me for dead which I shan’t forget), but no. It was a very large and very angry member of the Mustelid family.
Image credits: Rachel Heffington Pross
#122 Birbs
Image credits: Quinn Pin
#123 A Photo I Took Of One Of The Many Million Wild Deer In Nara, Japan.
These deer are feisty. They bow the traditional Japanese greeting to woo you in to giving them deer cookies. Then after the polite greeting they just attack en masse, biting your arse, stealing your tourist map, and making it impossibly difficult to get any decent photos of them in the beautiful surroundings. So I ended up with many shots like this
Image credits: Emily Walker
#124 My First Submission To Crab Wildlife Photography
Image credits: Kathleen Eriksen Bristol
#125 We Hired A New Receptionist At Work, But All She Did Was Scream At The Clients When They Got Close, So We Had To Let Her Go…
Image credits: Alyssa Cavarretta
#126 Why You So Kinky?
Image credits: Keirston Rinehart
#127 Tried To Take A Picture Of This Striped Gopher Eating A Snack
Image credits: Natalie Kaufman
#128 Sir You Are Too Large For The Squirrel Table. Also You’re Not A Squirrel
Image credits: Jessi Smith
#129 On My Neighbors Fire Escape. Just Chillin. I Didn’t Bother It. It Just Kinda Walked Away After I Called It Cute A Few Times.
Image credits: Gabbie Piper
#130 Look At This Awesome Bat! I Saw Him While In A Cenote In Mexico
Image credits: Jim Guy
#131 Kinda Wanna Run Away, Kinda Wanna Check What Food You Got
Image credits: Nicola Slooten
#132 My Shower Was Interrupted By A Peeping Tom. Or Rather, Peeping Jerry As Others Have Pointed Out
Image credits: Lauren McArdle-Bailey
#133 Aggressive Geese
Image credits: Ki Choi
#134 This Is The Face Of Somebody Who Was Caught Looking At My Blueberry Trees
Image credits: Mel Downey
#135 I Think This Eagle Is Broken… What Song Do You Think He Is Singing
Image credits: Velisha Howard
#136 Lol Recent Snap I Got. Perfect Timing. Instant Meme. Ready Go
Image credits: S Brent Lee
#137 This Quokka Wanted To See What I Was Eating
Image credits: Andrea Whaltey
#138 Tried To Take A Photo Of Hundreds Of Geese, Ended Up With Something That Looks Like Jupiter. So, Unvoluntary Accidental Wishful Amateur Astrophotography, Can We Call It That?
Image credits: Merle Alliksoo
#139 After Falling Asleep For The Third Time In A Row, Ralph Is No Longer Allowed To Take The Late Afternoon Guard Duty Shift
Image credits: Greg Maurer
#140 Found Out Who Stole My Christmas Lights!!!
Image credits: Juli Geiger
#141 I Thought I Was Getting A Picture Of A Bird Flying- But Not Quite Sure What I Got
Image credits: Teresa Bullard Carman
#142 Two Headless Fawns, I Think They Were Doing The Hokey Pokey…
Image credits: Lori Sitton
#143 South End Of A North-Bound Bobcat
Image credits: Stephen Cowen
#144 The Baba Is Getting Big Thanks To All Of Our Fruit Bearing Plants That We Are Not Entitled To. It’s A Good Thing You Guys Are So Cute. But You Owe Me Dammit!!! I Want An Awesome Picture Of You!!!! Stay Up A Little Late And Come In The Morning??
Image credits: Kate Wood
#145 This Is Not One Of My Best Shots, But I Saved It. Since I Joined This Group, Now I Know Why
Image credits: Jessica Baldwin
#146 I Upgraded To A $900 Nikon And Like Magic, I Finally Found A Herd Of Bighorn Sheep. If You Want To Use This For Holiday Cards, You Have My Permission
Image credits: Jennifer Laidlaw
#147 My Husband Just Sent Me This And Said “Whole Shitwhack Of Blue Herons” I Believe “Shitwhack” Is The Proper Term For A Group Of Blue Herons
Image credits: Brittany Berge
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