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The techniques of wildlife photography differ greatly from those used in landscape photography. For example, in wildlife photography wide apertures are used to achieve a fast shutter speed, freeze the subject's motion, and blur the backgrounds, while landscape photographers prefer small apertures to keep the entire frame in focus.
The world's three largest photography organisations, the Photographic Society of America, the Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique and the Royal Photographic Society have adopted a common definition for nature and wildlife photography to govern photography competitions, their respective presidents writing in a joint statement, "The development of a common definition for nature ...
The winners of the 2024 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards have been announced. Launched in 2001, this competition is one of the most prestigious in modern nature photography. This ...
Image credits: Natural History Museum #3 Winner, Behaviour: Birds: Practice Makes Perfect By Jack Zhi, USA. Jack Zhi enjoys watching a young falcon practicing its hunting skills on a butterfly ...
Hobby photographers taking pictures of wildlife at the Chobe River / Botswana (2018) Wildlife observation is the practice of noting the occurrence or abundance of animal species at a specific location and time, [1] either for research purposes or recreation. Common examples of this type of activity are bird watching and whale watching.
Many venomous snakes occur, some of which include famous examples such as the black mamba (one of the most deadly snakes in the world), eastern green mamba, boomslang, Cape cobra and rinkhals. Though human fatalities can occur, these snakes are normally timid and prefer to avoid humans.
Lying almost entirely within the tropics, and stretching equally north and south of the equator creates favorable conditions for variety and abundance of wildlife. Africa is home to many of the world's most recognizable fauna such as lions ‚ rhinoceroses ‚ cheetahs ‚ giraffes ‚ antelope , hippopotamuses , leopards , zebras ‚ and ...