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A photograph by Brian Johnston of a rare albino male red deer
“It’s become a bit of an obsession." After a summer of searching, hobbyist photographer photographs a rare "white hart" – for the second time

By Hillary K. Grigonis last updated

WILDLIFE A photographer spent two days searching for a rare albino white hart deer – and also stumbled across another creature he had been hoping to photograph

WILDLIFE
A dark Brandt’s cormorant flies to the right with a large bundle of green surfgrass in its bill, its head and body sharp while its outstretched wings blur into streaks
High above a California cliff colony, a Brandt’s cormorant flew in with a beakful of surfgrass. Kevin Lohman slowed his camera’s shutter to turn the moment into a dramatic picture

By Tom May Published

Award winner Kevin Lohman used a classic panning technique to make a nest-building cormorant look weightless

Award winner
Red-crowned crane.
How far can you blow out a scene before losing the subject? Wildlife photographer breaks down the high-key technique behind his stunning series of Japanese red-crowned cranes

By Alan Palazon Published

Bird Photography Multi-award-winning photographer Somdutt Prasad purposely exposed the images beyond what “felt natural” to capture the majestic birds against the snow-capped Hokkaido landscape

Bird Photography
Photograph of a Masai giraffe eating with an oxpecker, taken by M & C Denis-Huot in the Masai-Mara game reserve, Kenya. This giraffe is grazing in the grass alongside a yellow-billed oxpecker.
Remembering Giraffes: the latest book in the photo conservation series that has already raised over US$1.6 million is now on sale

By Niall Hampton Published

news We catch up with Remembering Wildlife founder Margot Raggett as the ninth coffee table book goes on sale

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Trail cam footage of adult jaguar walking in forested area.
Jaguars strike again! Conservationists spot “majestic” feline for the second time this year using 120 camera traps

By Alan Palazon Published

Camera Traps The sighting took place along a jungle corridor connecting Guatemala and Honduras, and marked the first time in a decade that the conservationists had seen the species on both sides of this border region

Camera Traps
Photographing animals from a moving boat is tricky unless you follow these top tips to keep your images sharp and your camera dry

By Wendy Evans Published

How to A day out at Longleat Safari Park was a good reminder of the right camera settings to use when shooting from an unsteady, moving platform!

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A Ghana cukooshrike in the rain forest canopy
This colorful, lost bird species hasn’t been seen in 13 years. A photographer just took the “best photos ever taken of this bird” – and the first-ever video

By Hillary K. Grigonis last updated

BIRDS Researchers working in a West African rainforest captured photos of a vulnerable bird species for the first time since 2013

BIRDS
A critically endangered King Island Scrubtit photographed at Boulder Wildlife Sanctuary, a 200-hectare wildlife refuge on Tasmania’s King Island
“I was confident I’d photographed the right species but given how rare they are, I also had a bit of doubt.” Photographer captures one of Australia’s rarest birds with a last-gen full-frame camera

By Mike Harris Published

News Only 100 King Island scrubtits are thought to exist. Brad Leue set off with the audacious plan to find and photograph one in only a week

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Rare black color red fox portrait in woodland
Michigan confirms unusual fox photo is “an incredibly rare sight” – and could be the only one like it in the region

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

WILDLIFE The Michigan DNR recently confirmed that a photo of an unusually colored fox is a rare melanistic gray fox

WILDLIFE
Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in sea, Mexico, Guadalupe Island
“She just rocketed through and then it was over,” says Nat Geo filmmaker on first-ever underwater camera footage of great white shark ripping prey from fishing line at Cape Cod

By Alan Palazon Published

News Brian Skerry, the renowned National Geographic filmmaker, captured the first-ever footage of underwater great white depredation in Cape Cod, Massachusetts where experts say flourishing seal populations have attracted more sharks

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