Found on the Web

The Mighty Tiger: 15 Facts and 25 Stunning Photos
Beautiful, deadly and endangered. The tiger is all of these.

Putty in their paws: Why we do what cats want
A pair of studies shows cats cleverly manipulate us to get what they need.

Kids and Furkids
If parents teach their children how to deal correctly with a dog while the children are young and curious, their relationships with dogs will be richer.

Carolyn Scott Photography

Carolyn Scott Photography is a pet and wedding photography business based in Raleigh, NC.

About the photo above, Carolyn said,
"Khia is a very well-behaved Australian Sheepdog puppy who belongs to one of my former wedding clients. Her owners had just gotten her a few months before and wanted some photographs to document the puppy stage in her life. Khia was so good throughout the shoot and listened, sat still, and posed quite beautifully! She also never barked once. She is a super adorable dog."

Carolyn believes in taking fun, original photographs of pets in their natural habitat in order to create a calm and relaxing atmosphere where the pets can be themselves. Although most of her pet clients are dogs, Carolyn Scott Photography has two spokescats, Buckles and Dolfy, both spoiled rotten rescues who enjoy meowing while we're on the phone with clients.

Please visit Carolyn:
Web: www.carolynscottphotography.com
Blog: www.carolynscottphotography.com/blog
Facebook: www.facebook.com/carolynscottphotography
Twitter: http://twitter.com/csphotographync

Can horses fly?

In 1872, former Governor of California Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner, had taken a position on a popularly-debated question of the day: whether all four of a horse's hooves are off the ground at the same time during a gallop.

Stanford sided with this assertion, called "unsupported transit", and took it upon himself to prove it scientifically. Stanford sought out photographer Eadweard Muybridge and hired him to settle the question.

A series of photos taken in Palo Alto, California, is called Sallie Gardner at a Gallop or The Horse in Motion, and shows that the hooves do all leave the ground — although not with the legs fully extended forward and back, as contemporary illustrators tended to imagine, but rather at the moment when all the hooves are tucked under the horse as it switches from "pushing" with the back legs to "pulling" with the front legs.

Muybridge used a battery of cameras lined along a track. The first camera had to be triggered manually, but the rest were automatically triggered by an electronic apparatus he designed.

This series of photos stands as one of the earliest forms of videography.



Source

Book Review: Photobooth Dogs

Photobooth Dogs is a wonderful collection of 100 portraits, taken in photobooths, of folks who love their dogs and decided to create a photo memory of that love.

Cameron Woo, co-founder and creative director of The Bark, collected the photos from flea markets and attic boxes and documented 80 some years worth of memories.

Looking at some of these nostalgic photos makes me want to run out and find a photobooth and bring my cats to pose with me.

(via Dog Art Today)

Photo : copyright Cameron Woo, 2010

The world’s rarest birds through caught on camera

The winners of The World's Rarest Birds international photo competition have just been announced. The competition, launched in 2010, aimed to secure images of the 566 most threatened birds on Earth for a new book highlighting their plight.

Thousands of images were entered into the competition and hundreds will be featured in The World's Rarest Birds to be published in 2012 by the ethical publishing company WILDGuides. Profits from sales will go to BirdLife International's Preventing Extinctions Programme to help support conservation projects worldwide.

The winner in the "Endangered (372) or Data Deficient (62) species"
is Quan MinLi: a beautiful photo of a flying Asian Crested Ibis from China.

Asian Crested Ibis (ENDANGERED)
A medium-sized water bird that once bred in Russia, Japan and China but underwent a major population crash. It is now restricted to Shaanxi province in central mainland China, where just 250 individuals survive.

PHOTO: Quan MinLi

Source

Photography by Tim Flach

Photo credit: Tim Flach . . . the best dog photos I've seen in a long time.

Wild Wonders of Europe

Wild Wonders of Europe showcases beautiful photo galleries sponsored by National Geographic which highlight the flora and fauna of Europe.

This is Marmots Feeding on Flowers by Grezgorz Lesniewski, from the Austria Galleries

International Garden Photographer of the Year

The finalists of the UK's International Garden Photographer of the Year award have just been announced.

Garden tiger moth close-up by Paul Keene

This picture of a garden tiger moth (Arctia caja) was taken in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. The caterpillars of this moth feed on nettles, so if you want these moths to be a feature in your garden, then keep a rough, uncultivated patch

(via Look at This)

The four faces of the Bengal tiger

Displayed for the first time in a specially constructed studio in South Carolina, The Four Faces of the Bengal Tiger show the four varieties of Bengal tiger.

"There are only four distinct types of Bengal tiger in the world and they are all in this amazing photo shoot," says Dr Bhagavan Antle of The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S), who brought these majestic animals to the studio.

Dr Antle believes the images give away the characteristics of behaviour, age and personality of each tiger. "Like human photographs, you can see the difference in their age as some of them look a little more grizzled and haggard than others."

See all 18 photos

Photograph: Barry Bland/Barcroft Media

Smile, it's Friday!

It's Tanis Guinness & "Ta Wang"

From The Library of Congress Collection at Flickr

Great Animal Portraits

20 Great Animal Portraits: A Sneak Peek at PDN Faces

Photo by Michael C. Rathsam: “Captured during photo shoot of one of the sweetest dogs I’ve ever met.”

PDN is conducting their second annual Faces contest, seeking today’s best portrait photographs.

This is a sneak peek at some early entries in the Animal Portraits category.

These are not the winners of the Faces Contest. These are a few early favorites based on popular votes on the People’s Choice page.

There’s still more great work being entered in Animal Portraits and the three other categories: Celebrity/Editorial Portraits (studio), Environmental Portraiture and Self-Portraits.

The contest remains open for entries until April 7, 2009. Select winners will be exhibited at the PDN PhotoPlus International Expo from October 23 to 25, 2009 in New York City, and a winner’s gallery will appear in the December issue of PDN.

To see more People’s Choice entries, or to enter the contest yourself, visit the PDN Faces portrait photo contest.

Sold!

Taken by an anonymous American photographer in the 1850's, and titled "Poodle With Bow, On Table," this daguerreotype was sold at a Sotheby's auction for $8,125.

This might possibly be one of the first "Pet Photos" ever taken.

Sony World Photography Awards 2009: professional finalists

The professional finalists of the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced.

Here are some of those which feature animals.

Natural History: Lisa Maree Williams (Australia)
Winner - Wildlife Warriors: A kangaroo joey receives treatment at The Australian Wildlife Hospital

Natural History: Lisa Maree Williams (Australia)
Winner - Wildlife Warriors: An injured koala receives treatment at The Australian Wildlife Hospital

Second: Steve Morenos (Australia)
Australian Possum

Second: Steve Morenos (Australia)
Kestrels

Conceptual & Constructed: Tamany Baker (UK)
Winner - A series called Living With Wolfie, a response to the "presents" that her beloved cat brings into the home.

Fashion: Piotr Fajfer (Poland)
Winner - Princess of the Crows for Eva Danhofer

Source

Photography by David Stewart

See many more at the photographer's web collection.

Photography by Murphy Dog Studios

Based in San Jose, CA, Murphy Dog Studios is the home of professional photographer, Robert Vreeland. Robert specializes in creating unique contemporary, fine art dog photography.

You can admire Robert's photography at
his website: Murphy Dog Studios
his Flickr collection: Murphy Dog Studios Photostream
or you can visit his blog: Murphy Dog Studios, the blog


Photo from Flickr, uploaded by Murphy Dog Studios

(via Fetching Dog Collars blog)

Snap* What a great idea

Ever wondered if there was a stylish pet photographer in your area? Ever look at a pet magazine spread and wonder if your dog could look that good? Ever wonder if there was someone who could capture your pet’s unique personality, with an aesthetic that expresses your personal style?

Now, it's much easier to find a professional pet photographer because some of the best are showcased at Snap* the Pet Photography Showcase.

This sample is from April Ziegler Photography

April also has her own website: www.aprilziegler.com

(via Mod-Dog Blog)

Say "Cheese!"

Photo: Bernard, Jeanette
ca 1890-1910
Miller Plummer Collection
From George Eastman House Collections

I wish I could take pictures like this

hummingbird, Rufous Female, breaking the topmost water bubble from the fountain spray with her beak. You can see the spray above and below her beak here.

Also by the same photographer:

hummingbird from a different view, atop the water droplets from fountain. Reminds me of a bumble bee here :) Note the little dash of bright red iridescence on it's throat in this shot. Don't know if its an immature male or female.

Photo credit: Alandrapal

On the subject of penguins

Looks like the inauguration, doesn't it?

This amazing photo was taken on South Georgia Island. The photographer says, "This is not the largest colony of king penguins on South Georgia but there were over a hundred thousand breeding pairs in this location. The brown spots are not open spaces but chicks that have not fledged."

from Flickr, by chuck12600

Take a look at it in the largest size: 3200 x 2135. Better yet, set it as your desktop wallpaper.

Photography by Gary Parker

When attempting to describe Gary Parker’s unique brand of photography forget words.

Begin with this: picture what an exuberant 8 year old boy might do with a camera if he had 25 years of experience winning awards in advertising and photojournalism, could light anything and could read the minds of dogs and go figure, EVEN CATS!

Gary is so busy taking photographs, he actually needs 2 websites to show them
all off.

At Gary Parker's Cat/Dog Photography, I found this wonderful photo:

But Gary Parker Photography, which seems to be his main site, is also crammed full of pet photography, like this:

Doesn't this look like FUN?

Gary Parker Photography also showcases Gary's pro bono work with Little People of America (LPA). His photos encompass the #1 dwarfism photography website in the world, a site which has positively impacted the lives of many Little People families worldwide, as well as many of average stature who have found the portraits a source of inspiration, education and delight.

Look:

Please note:
All photographs are the exclusive property of Parker Photographic productions, Inc. – and are protected by US international copyright laws. These photos may not be downloaded, reproduced, copied, stored, manipulated, projected or used in any way without the expressed permission of Gary Parker. If you wish to use any of these photographs please contact ary@garyparker.com.

Gary Parker is currently creating Gary Parker's "Lunatic Light Workshops,"a series of workshops on various photographic topics including lighting, photoshop techniques, backyard photography, and the art of photographing your pets.