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These 20 photos I make to show people what kind of treasure we have in animals and that we should preserve those treasures we have and not destroy and kill them.
I am Goran Anastasovski, or king of the camera, called by London Daily Mail. I spent 13 years capturing incredible portraits of animals. I have been actively engaged in photography since 2006, mainly focused on nature and the wild animal world. My images show leopards, lions, tigers, giraffes in surprisingly relaxed poses, with many of them sharing intimate moments with their companions. With my photographic mastery, I managed to place my name on many media worldwide.
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#1
Final score:
137points
Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
I want to huff his neck, which I used to do with the late, great Petrushka—that’s where the wonderful kitty smell lives.
sharron lynn parsons 4 years ago
I think this boy, needs some grooming, but in the wild, this is, what it is !!!
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Proud and powerful magnificent wonderful. He truly is King of the Beasts!
I’m happy to not have faced creative blocks much in my photography - I have no problem coming up with new ideas. The idea usually comes as I stop in front of the animal I am photographing. So far I have not photographed a cheetah, and I think it would be great if I manage to make it. For me, the cheetah is one of the most graceful animals. Also, the fastest on the planet.
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#2
Final score:
113points
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
I think that if they were fighting, they wouldn’t be standing side-by-side like that. Granted I know little about giraffes other than they have only seven vertebrae like other mammals.
Load More Replies... sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
These photos are a reminder,if we need one, the stunning beauty of animals we have, and must save !!!
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
I think they are having intimate conversation - "You do know I'm taller than you -Right!"
#3
Final score:
112points
Angela Kelley 4 years ago
The saying may be, momma bear, but if you zoom in on this momma’s eyes, she looks like she is ready to take you out. Yesterday!
sharron lynn parsons 4 years ago
I love this, in a great shot, you see so much, incredible detail !!!
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
So beautiful and cool they seem so passive and friendly. It must take real guts to shoot these beauties!
Usually, it is normal to wait a long time for a great photo to be taken, but in my case, it is not. I took the best photos very quickly with a wait of no more than one hour, which means that sometimes luck has a big part. In the moment, that is the most important for a great photo.
#4
Final score:
106points
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Goran, please get that camera out of my face - I hope my tongue spoils it! Just makes you cuter than ever!
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
May have just been nursing, fabulous shot, love the lemur !!!
#5
Final score:
104points
Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
I love how the spots on the bridge of the nose get down to the size of freckles.
JuniorCJ82 4 years ago
It's a jaguar. Jaguars are shorter and stockier and yellowish and they have wider heads. They have rosettes with spots inside and shorter fatter tails. Leopards are taller and lankier and more tan coloured with smaller heads. Their rosettes are smaller with nothing in them. Their tails are longer and thinner. Both can have black colour mutations.
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sharron lynn parsons 4 years ago
It takes a special talent, when photographing wild animals, I am so impressed, this is fantastic !!!
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Even his eyes look so powerful the concentrated look on his face Amazing!
When photographing animals, there are no special preparations, because we are not working on static objects for which you can make a strategy. Of course, there are some tricks I've learned over time, such as when I start yawning at animals for a while, they start yawning too. It may sound unrealistic, but it really works.
#6
Final score:
103points
Roxanne Ireland 6 years ago
ARE ZEBRAS BLACK WITH WHITE STRIPES OR WHITE WITH BLACK STRIPES?
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Brian Bennett 4 years ago
A horse is a horse of course of course! I've always wondered what horsed or zebras would say to us - "Get off my back dude."
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Great...now I have Mr. Ed theme song running through my brain. Thanks, Wilbur!
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Final score:
101points
RedMarbles 4 years ago
You must be an empathetic person. Apparently yawns aren't contagious to sociopaths.
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Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
I once pet a tiger at Marineworld/Africa USA—its fur was much rougher than I had anticipated.
kathryn stretton 6 years ago
I'd advise you not to stick your finger in his mouth while he's yawning. He might not get the joke.
There are many photographers whose work is great, but I see that I am not inspired by other photographs. I think that only diversity and uniqueness is the real path to success. My plan for the future is to continue with the same passion and love for this work, and I hope that many more beautiful photos will come out of my eye.
#8
Final score:
99points
Memyselfand I 6 years ago
It's okay...You don't have to be scared. Your mother will protect you.
#9
Final score:
97points
Kathy Baylis 6 years ago (edited)
A face only a mother could love. On payday. (But so effing cute!)
Load More Replies... Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
Fun Fact: Old-world vultures (such as these) find its food by sight while new-world vultures (Turkey vultures, Condors, etc.) find their food by smell. I was once driving down the California coast and around Big Sur there were several California condors coming in from a couple of valleys inland because they could smell the two dead whales on the beach.
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
I am sure that is a sight that you will never forget.
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TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
It looks like a Himalayan Griffon Vulture to me 🦅But similar to the bald eagle, they're both scavengers and feeding habits have a hand in how animals evolve.
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Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Never saw such a close up of the Eagle - looks like wings are waxy tremendous shot of both!
#10
Final score:
96points
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
They are so adorable, I understand, people want them for pets, however, that should be stopped !!!
Helen Haley 6 years ago
Is it because they always look like they're staring way to hard. Like a creeper? I mean, they're adorable and all, but the intensity of the stare is a bit much.
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Final score:
89points
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
I think these guys look super intelligent they are considered lookouts for the animals! Wonderful shot!
#12
Final score:
88points
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Love the position you caught the parrot in preening his feathers! These guys are gorgeous!
#13
Final score:
77points
glowworm2 6 years ago
Vultures may be looked down upon, but I think they are lovely looking creatures.
Blacksheep 6 years ago
Without vultures and hyenas nature would smell of rotten flesh and flies would be even more a problem...
Load More Replies... Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
Old world vultures work by sight and new world vultures work by smell.
Jane Zimmerman 6 years ago
Just like all living creatures, they didn't ask to be born and they are just living their lives...
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
It is said the head is shaped and feathered like this because they eat carrion - the head tends to stay fairly clean! Neve seen one this close!
#14
Final score:
76points
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
This shows an animal smelling for pheromones using its vomeronasal organ. We humans probably had that sense too but lost it along the way through millions of years of evolution. Read more here -> "Mammalian Pheromones" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4310675/
Kathy Baylis 6 years ago (edited)
Sing it, Freddie! (Can anybody find meeeeeeeeee? Somebody to Love?)
#15
Final score:
73points
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Each zebra has its own unique pattern...like fingerprints in humans.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
🦓Zebras' skin is black, so they're considered black w/white stripes and when they're running in a dazzle, the stripes confuse predators making it harder to pick out an individual. Their stripes are as unique as our fingerprints. A Zorse is the offspring of a male zebra & female horse🦓🦓🦓
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Prisoner of love- they say the pattern of the stripes are different (who ever they are).
#16
Final score:
69points
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
I have to think about this a bit - please take picture and lesve - thanks!
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
Not sure of this one, there is a great number of primates !!!
#17
Final score:
68points
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago (edited)
🐴These look like Icelandic Ponies to me🐴They are small (comparatively) but are usually considered a hardy horse and are a long-lived "easy keeper" having a double-coat to keep them warm.
#18
Final score:
60points
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
I've never seen one with a third horn - is that unusual? (I know, technically not a horn, but you know what I mean...)
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
The giraffe's “horns” are not antlers — they are permanent outcroppings of bone from the skull, called “ossicones.” Some giraffes have three ossicones. Some of the extinct relatives to the giraffe had four. https://www.irl.co.za/blog/post/photo-of-the-week-why-do-giraffes-have-horns/
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Mary Rose Kent 6 years ago
It’s the long, sweeping eyelashes that really caps it for me.
Load More Replies... Kathi Keegan Chang 6 years ago
I always love the frontal view of a giraffe, in front of his/her mom.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
No it's not a thinking cap its a horn, no I can't blow it. Those eyelashes are super Liz Taylor would have loved them!
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Final score:
59points
#20
Final score:
53points
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CookieNeerrrrd 6 years ago
Animals ARE beautiful, and you showed that amazingly! Well done!! <3
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
YOU say, couldn't live without them, most of us feel that way, however, with deforestation in part, some animals are near extinction, many zoos are breeding such animals, but not all can be returned to the wild, perhaps some animals we will only be able to see in a zoo, so sad, as the population grows, we take some of the animals natural habitat !!!
Load More Replies... sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
One more post has given us great pleasure, thanks for the fabulous shots !!!
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
Goran, you think as I do, nature is my love, I just love the wild animals, you did a fabulous job, thanks for sharing, if you have more in the future, share again !!!
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Goran - these shots are unbelievable a lot of animal photos look almost posed (I suppose waiting for the "right" moment). You have got the eye of an artist - these beautiful critters look natural and undisturbed by the camera. I guess it must be wonderful to be so talented and so one with the animals! Congratulations and Thank you!
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
The photos are indeed beautiful - but the choice of a uniform black background leaves me cold. To me, it makes them 'artsy', as if they are processed to be turned into fancy postcards, or like something for the species' tombstone. Are they all showing captive animals, from zoos? There are many accomplished wildlife photographers who show their subjects in their natural habitat. No living being exists in isolation, we are all part of, and dependent upon, the environment that surrounds us.
CookieNeerrrrd 6 years ago
Animals ARE beautiful, and you showed that amazingly! Well done!! <3
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
YOU say, couldn't live without them, most of us feel that way, however, with deforestation in part, some animals are near extinction, many zoos are breeding such animals, but not all can be returned to the wild, perhaps some animals we will only be able to see in a zoo, so sad, as the population grows, we take some of the animals natural habitat !!!
Load More Replies... sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
One more post has given us great pleasure, thanks for the fabulous shots !!!
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
Goran, you think as I do, nature is my love, I just love the wild animals, you did a fabulous job, thanks for sharing, if you have more in the future, share again !!!
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Goran - these shots are unbelievable a lot of animal photos look almost posed (I suppose waiting for the "right" moment). You have got the eye of an artist - these beautiful critters look natural and undisturbed by the camera. I guess it must be wonderful to be so talented and so one with the animals! Congratulations and Thank you!
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
The photos are indeed beautiful - but the choice of a uniform black background leaves me cold. To me, it makes them 'artsy', as if they are processed to be turned into fancy postcards, or like something for the species' tombstone. Are they all showing captive animals, from zoos? There are many accomplished wildlife photographers who show their subjects in their natural habitat. No living being exists in isolation, we are all part of, and dependent upon, the environment that surrounds us.
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