Some say that children and animals are the most difficult subjects to take pictures of (unless they’re sleeping, of course). That’s arguably true for many reasons, a couple of which are that they often just can’t stand still and don’t respond well to the photographer asking them to do so.

Today, we have prepared a list of beaaaautiful pictures of one of the two—animals, as shared on the ‘Crap wildlife photography’ Facebook group. Covering all sorts of scenarios, from the wild beings unable to stand still for a moment, to photographers messing up themselves, the list is filled with some impressive shots; but there’s no need to take my word for it, just scroll down to find them and see for yourself. Enjoy!

#1 I Got Lucky Enough To See The Rare Northern California Sea Potato! Butter And Chives Not Included

Image credits: Nikki Wolf

#2 And Jean Was Never Seen Again. Authorities Suspect Fowl Play

Image credits: Jenny Gray Hough

#3 Effortless

Image credits: Courtney Cole

#4 This Little Guy Takes A Nap In The Same Spot Every, Single Day (And In Another Tree But He Loves This Nook)

since it’s been 100 f degrees..And it’s been 100f for about 2 months here in Austin with no rain. I have plenty of water around the yard.He’s really enjoying his nap! Siesta time!

Image credits: Mirgun Akyavas

#5 Oregon Is Beautiful

Image credits: Rachel Heffington Pross

#6 No Bird Flies As Gracefully As A Sandhill Crane!

Image credits: Paige MacKenzie

#7 This Buck Was Having A Bad Hair Day

Image credits: Nick Yezek

#8 I’ve Been Trying To Get Them To Use This Thing For Weeks. Victory Is Mine!!!

Image credits: Ash Enolaemevael

#9 Behold The Fabulous Pileated Woodpecker!

Image credits: Hazel Bakker

#10 It’s Wildlife. It’s A Photo. It’s Definitely Cr*p

Image credits: Laura MJ

#11 I Was Trying To Take A Photo Of An Adorable Jackrabbit, But It Got Possessed And Stood Up On Its Legs Like A Demon. Yes, I Went The Other Way

Image credits: Rainey Miller

#12 Almost A Cool Picture Of A Great Egret Catching A Fish, But A Bug Got In The Way

Image credits: Robert Otto

#13 I Swear They Didn’t Seem This Big On The Course

Image credits: Mark Griffin

#14 When A Deer Ran By And I Still Caught It On Camera… Well Most Of It

Image credits: Angie Reynolds Photography

#15 Such A Majestic Creature

Image credits: Bill Whaley

#16 When You’ve Been Parked For 1 Hour And 59 Minutes And The Parking Inspector Is Getting Ready

Image credits: Claire Malcolm

#17 When You Think You’re Gonna Get A Great Photo But They Use You To Check Out Their Hair Instead

Image credits: Rachel Way Howard

#18 That Time I Was So Excited To See My First Wild Weasel (I’m An Avid Wildlife Photographer)… And Just As He Got Somewhat Close Enough, He Turned, Ran, And Gave Me Nuthin’ But Nuts

Image credits: Izzy Edwards

#19 My First Post Here

Image credits: Alicia Allen

#20 I Was Trying To Get A Nice Picture Of Them All Lined Up On The Log…

Image credits: Taryn Venable

#21 Well That’s A Neat Trick

Image credits: Amanda Geahry

#22 Been A While Since We’ve Shared One Of Our Majestic Eagle Pictures Here. Having An Eagle Nest In Our Pasture, We Take A Lot Of *good* Eagle Pictures. Here Is A Recent One!

Image credits: Diana Holbrook

#23 Last Year On A Hot Summer Day I Took My Hiking Boots Off Because My Feet Were Getting All Sweaty While Trying To Photograph Wild Foxes

 Not even an hour later the female fox had approached my boots and was sniffing them, before I could react she took off with my left hiker!

Here’s an award winning still from the video I took while running after her. She let me chase her for a minute or so before eventually surrendering the boot 

Image credits: Izzy Edwards

#24 The Majestic Sea Lion Slumbers

Image credits: Anna Smitten

#25 A Breathtaking Performance Of The Nutquacker

Image credits: Faye Nixon

#26 Psycho Owl

Image credits: Michael Rønde

#27 30 Hour Flight To Africa 3 Hour Drive $12,000 Out Of Focus Giraffe

Image credits: Ryan Kendall Brook

#28 My Daughter Just Sent This From Her Vacation. It’s Been Unbearably Hot! She Deserves A Break. She Has Three Babies

Image credits: Charlotte Smith Schaefers

#29 Please Enjoy This Exquisite Photo Of Bridger Butte. It Could Have Been Much Better But These Ridiculous Wild Stallions Fighting Got In The Way

Image credits: Kristin Sarkar

#30 Thought It Would Be So Cool To Get A Photo Of This Handsome Buck On My Property Shedding And Scratching Its Head. But I Got More Than I Bargained For When I Looked Closer At The Photo!!

Image credits: Brenda Meloche – Kraner

#31 Backyard Bunny Handstand

Image credits: Nicole Remmler

#32 Trying To Photograph Bumble Bee Sweetly Sipping Nectar

Image credits: Judy Cardin

#33 Things I Never Expected To See In A Tree: Groundhogs

Image credits: Sara Hoover

#34 A Once In A Lifetime Experience—seeing A Snowy Owl In The Wild. And By “Wild”, I Mean A Guardrail On Highway 20 In Upstate NY, Across The Street From The Drag Racing Track. I Think I Captured Nature In Its Purest Form Here

Image credits: Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman

#35 I Finally Captured A Photo Worthy Of This Group! Behold! I Give You, The Elusive Headless Moose!

Image credits: Angutekaraq Qakvalria

#36 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

#37 Clearly Underestimated The Size Of His Backside When Planning His Getaway

Image credits: Kara Smidt

#38 The Bird Wasn’t Cooperating

Image credits: Martine Freiberger

#39 Tried To Get A Duck Take Off. Got This Instead

Image credits: Ally Piercy

#40 I Never Believed That The Earth Was Flat Until I Saw It With My Own Eyes

After returning home from a safari on the Masai Mara, I discovered that I indeed traveled to the ends of the earth- not seen with the naked eye, no one must capture it through a lens on a camera phone in order to know that it exists. It’s strange how some wildebeest were perfectly fine to live on the edge of the earth without falling. Hmm

Image credits: Josie Blue-Fox

#41 Behold The Majestic Bluejay

Image credits: Violet Longferret

#42 I Saw An Armadillo For The First Time Today And He Looks Like He’s Guiltyyyyy

Image credits: Justina Bagger

#43 Just Came Across This Picture I Took Of A Mourning Dove Singing It’s Little Heart Out

Image credits: Jill Epling

#44 Frankly, I Don’t Know Why Natgeo Isn’t Returning My Calls

Image credits: Tyler Bozzuto

#45 Opossum In A Tree In My Yard Last Night. I Think I Did Well Capturing The Look In His Eyes

Image credits: Rob Mueller

#46 This Bee Comes By My Brother’s Ring Doorbell Every Day

Image credits: Cathi Davis

#47 Captured A Really Awesome Moment Of A Lizard Capturing A Bug. Except You Wouldn’t Know Because I Was So Excited I Couldn’t Hold My Hand Still

Image credits: Rebecca Crawford

#48 Merp

Image credits: Brad Imhoff

#49 I Wanted A Dive But He Just Wanted To Hang Out

This fella lost his balance upon landing and ended up upside down. He stayed like this for a good 3 minutes (probably from shock / embarrassment) before pulling himself up and perching normally

Image credits: Adam Maniam

#50 Beluga

Image credits: Allison Von Der Lande

#51 5 Years Ago Today I Took This Picture Of A Fox

Image credits: Jessica Errington

#52 When Panoramic Goes Pano-Wrong

Image credits: Jenny Garland Gray

#53 Long Time Lurker, First Time Poster

Image credits: Hannah Huff

#54 Imposter Alert!

Image credits: Molly Rutten

#55 I Got Mooned By A Peacock

Image credits: Jenny Morris

#56 My Husband: Quick! The Moose Running Toward Us! Get A Shot!

Spouse of the other photographer: Quick! The moose is running away! Get a shot!
I just hope the other photographer got me in his picture. But that he focused on the moose and not me

Image credits: Deb Griffin

#57 Screenshot From A Video I Took Yesterday! I Had A Praying Mantis On My Hand, Then It Flew Up And Landed On My Phone And Chaos Ensued. But I Cannot Get Over This Face

Image credits: Sara Hemenway

#58 Midair Froggy

Image credits: Katherine Mae

#59 Does Not Belong Inside My Laundry Room

Image credits: Angie Preciado

#60 I Was Late Gathering Eggs This Morning And Our Resident Black Rat Snake Got There First

I often find her shed skins in and around the chicken house but since she also keeps the rodent population down, I don’t begrudge her an egg now and then. The photo might not be cr*p but the snake made it very clear that taking her pic at a particularly awkward moment was a cr*ppy thing for me to do

Image credits: Pamela Ebrey Williams

#61 He Was Unhappy At The Indignity Of It All…

Image credits: Rebecca Smith

#62 I’m Pretty Sure He Also Took A Photo Of Me And Posted It In The Group Cr*p Human Photography

Image credits: Coralee Monaghan

#63 This Pelican Sat In My Husband’s Chair For 3 Straight Hours In Cabo San Lucas Mexico

Image credits: Debbie Kay Wright Aulger

#64 Texas Coral Tagged My Baby Toe. Here He Is Is Waiting For Me To Dead. Lucky For Me I’m Not Dead… In The Hospital Tho Because Snek = Lotta Pain

Image credits: Shannon Marie

#65 A Whopping 45 Megapixels Of Sharp Background And Blur Otters

Image credits: Tan Yong Lin

#66 Behold This Wildlife From A Nearby Beach. I Wanted To Rinse It A Bit To Reveal Its Glistening Splendor, But Ours Is An Imperfect World

Image credits: Cee Johnson

#67 My New Car Came With Blind Spot Monitoring, A Year’s Worth Of Oil Changes And A Red Tail Boa

Image credits: Karen Thompson

#68 When I Grabbed My Camera I Thought This Was A Raccoon. Then I Realized It Was A Big, Ugly Possum . . . Then I Realized The Big, Ugly Possum Was Taking A Big Fat Dump In My Back Yard. I Will Never Walk Barefoot Out There Again

Image credits: Lauren Cook Wike

#69 My First Post. Pic Is From 2016 And I’m Still Mad About It…lol

Image credits: Mary McGowan

#70 Whilst Trying To Obtain Photographic Evidence Of Being Held Hostage In The Car By Steven Seagull…along Comes His Evil Twin Stephen Seagull!!

Image credits: Abi Gail

#71 This Mountain Lion Came Out Of The Bushes And Was Blocking The Trail Way Ahead Of Me

 I snapped a quick picture with my 600mm zoom and then yelled at my dog for us to go! Once I was around the bend and out of sight I ran all the way back to the car, about half a mile. When I was safe and sound, I checked the camera to see if I had a good picture of it….I ran from a fox. And I didn’t even get a decent picture of it

Image credits: Brooke Edwards

#72 My Neighbor’s Umbrella Gets Me Every. Single. Time

Image credits: Karen Gilder

#73 So There I Was Patiently Waiting For The Perfect Shot

 I see that 3 sharks are going to converge in the same spot. Air is getting low time is running out, Current makes being still almost impossible. Persistence finally pays off. Sharks are in perfect position. Just as I snap the shot this jerk Photo Bombs me. It’s a Yellow Tail Snapper stealing the show!

Image credits: James Simms

#74 Lemme Get $50 On Pump Uhhhh 7

Image credits: Joe Dallmann

#75 $4000 Camera With Bird Eye Detection $2500 600mm Lens Useless Photographer? Priceless

Image credits: Jason Epperson

#76 My House. Not My Cat

Image credits: Dawn Eyestone

#77 I Was Trying To Get The Graceful Landing Of A Barred Owl. Instead I Got A Drunken Pole Dancer. The Third Eyelid Being Closed Was The Icing On The Cake

Image credits: Kelly Umberger

#78 Got This Beautiful Shot Of Mother And Baby Out Back This Morning

Image credits: Beatrice Shaw

#79 Wild Bear In Yellowstone I Checked My Pictures And They All Came Out Like This

Image credits: Destiny Rabbani

#80 Act Natural

Image credits: Jennifer Rush

#81 I Witnessed An Egret’s Soul Leaving Its Body. #phenomenal

Image credits: Ellen Austria Harvell

#82 Squirrels Can Have Abs Too

Image credits: Anna Elizabeth

#83 I Wanted To Show My Girlfriend How Graceful And Handsome The Common Cranes Are…. Let’s Just Go See Them Another Day

Image credits: Eskil J. Nielsen-Ferreira

#84 A Beautiful Owl Landed On This Stop Sign The Other Night As I Was Driving By. I Was So Excited That I Threw The Hamburger I Was Eating So I Could Grab My Phone And Take A Picture. I’m So Glad I’ll Always Have This To Remember It

Image credits: Kari Wagner

#85 Well I Wasn’t Expecting To See That In My Pot!!

Image credits: Tricia Stuart

#86 Weeeeeeeee

Image credits: Lisa Jayne Reynolds

#87 In My Yard At The Same Time!

Image credits: Melissa Winkle

#88 Raccoon On A Telephone Pole … A Very Comforting Presence

Image credits: Lindsay Sletten

#89 Very Good Shot Of A Cardinal

Image credits: Alex Lupo

#90 Egg Thief. My Kids Named Him Quiche So I Guess He’s A Pet Now

Image credits: Melissa Freeman

#91 Rare Plant

Image credits: Jaimee Price

#92 Green Snake Playing Tetris On Our Crawl Space

Image credits: Sharron Sims

#93 I Finally Found The Perfect Place For This Beautiful Photo

While vacationing in the Colorado Rockies, late at night driving down the road to our cabin:
Husband: ”OH MY… A Mountain Lion!!! Get the camera, GET THE CAMERA!!!”
Me: fumbling to get the camera and quickly snapping a pic before the mountain Lion is gone.
Husband: ”Did you get it, did you get it?”
Me: “Well, um… kind of”  
I swear this is a mountain lion. The only one I’ve ever seen in my life, and the only picture I have to prove it.

Image credits: Lisa Kaufman

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