This Facebook Group Is All About Poor Wildlife Photos And They Are So Bad They’re Good
Crap Wildlife Photography needs no introduction. The internet's powerhouse founded five years ago as a Facebook group has gone from a couple of thousand members to boasting a solid 411.3K fanbase. It all started when the group went totally viral in January 2020 after being featured on Bored Panda.
Today, it’s one of the most exciting communities on social media which has people sharing weirdly wonderful and impossibly crappy photographs of wildlife. No perfect shots, no well-thought compositions, no good timing: crap photography celebrates the exact opposite.
So get your popcorn ready to scroll through the freshest batch of wildlife photos with deliberately zero quality standards. And after you’re done, make sure to check out our previous posts with the same excellence in crappiness here, here, and here.
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We Have An Albino Squirrel In Our Backyard. I've Been Stalking Him For His Photo. Finally Got One. Isn't He Beautiful!
Okay... So Maybe I Need More Practice Photographing Birds
The internet is full of many unsuccessful wildlife pictures surfing around, but when the Crap Wildlife Photography Facebook group became the internet's powerhouse for this sort of content, they became cool and edgy—something they’d never been before.
The group’s success has to do with the fact that it’s one of the very few online communities that celebrate all the very bad efforts in photography. “The 'good' photo groups aren't interested in bad photography, of course, so it gives people somewhere to share their lesser-quality photos and have a laugh at themselves,” Tristan Kennedy, the creator of the group, told us some time ago.
Caught This Guy Raiding The Bird Feeder At Night. Not Sure Why He Felt The Need To Cover His Private Parts
This Great Horned Owl Was Chilling On The Roof Behind Our House. I Raced Around The Block Where The Light Was Better And Got This!
But what exactly makes it so difficult to capture that pic-perfect shot when it comes to wildlife? Some time ago, we talked to Marina Cano, an award-winning wildlife photographer and Canon ambassador whose work has been on the covers of National Geographic, and in 2015, she was a finalist of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest.
Marina said that the difficult part “lies in how unpredictable the animals can be, but that’s also the most exciting thing about capturing these images.” This unexpectedness and jumpiness that wild animals have is also what makes the bad photographs so fun and relatable. We all have one in our camera roll and we’re often too embarrassed to share.
Is He.. Giving Me The.. Bird?!
Hi How Are Ya, Hi How Are Ya, Hi How Are Ya?
Took A Photo Of This Lazy Fella A Few Years Ago
Part Of The Magic Of New Zealand’s Caves Is Due To The Spectacular Display Of Glow-Worms, As Illustrated In My Award Winning Photo
Behold. The Best Fish Picture I've Ever Taken
According to Marina, the most important thing to know before taking a camera is that “whatever happens in the day you will come back home happy to be in the wild.” On top of that, you need to be passionate, because in this case, “you won’t blame anything and just enjoy it.”
It Was Fast Not My Fault
Next Time Starring On Squirrel Porn Is Ballsy The Squirrel
I Was Trying To Take A Sweet Photo Of A Sparrow Having A Bath. I Appear To Have Taken A Photo Of Two Sparrows Committing A Murder
Check Out The Excellent Welds On This Steel Fencing
I Was Trying To Take A Picture Of This Juvenile Seagull And This Sleepy Pigeon Waddled In And Stole The Show
I Saw A Snowy Owl Today... I'd Say He Was Camouflaged Very Well
But when it comes to poorly executed photographs, people often blame wobbly cameras, bad weather, or not enough light. Unless you are submitting the picture to Crap Wildlife Photography, this is definitely not something you want in your images.
Mr. Grumpy Stepped Into The Frame Uninvited When I Was Just Trying To Get A Nice Photo Of The River In Porto, Portu-Gull
Frog
This brethren has had enough of your photo shooting session!
“Every Move You Make Every Step You Take Owl Be Watching You”
Someone Had A Big Night! This Is A Wild Komodo Dragon. Safe To Say We Used A Different Bathroom
The photos shared on Crap Wildlife Photography are not to be taken seriously by any cost. People here are celebrating the sheer level of absurdity and lousiness, zero photography standards, and the worst timing ever. After all, we all are desperate for a good laugh these days.
I Will Be Leading A Online Class In Photography Soon. Feel Free To Western Union Me Your $500 Enrollment Deposit
Took This After Getting Out Of My Car To Go In A Store
Sigh. This Is My Bathroom Ceiling, That Is A Brush Tailed Possum Foot
That Moment When You Realize You're Gonna Need A Bigger Bird Feeder
So I Helped A Raccoon That Was Unable To Get Up The Slippery River Bank And Was Stuck In The Water. I Was Repaid With Him Shaking The Water Off Of Himself All Over Me
Not [Bad] Photo... But I [Pooped] My Pants... Back Away Slowly
The Ermine In The Lovely Minnesota Snow. Nailed The Exposure On This One
Here Is The Pic I Happened To Snap Once Of A Capybara Getting Snipped By A Goose. I Couldn’t Believe It When I Saw What I Captured
You Are Considered Lucky To See One Cape Clawlless Otter. Two Together At The Same Time Is Even More Unusual. Not Sure What It Means When Eight Demonic Ones Come And Visit You Out Of The Darkness
Any Ornithologists Out There To Identify This Bird?
I Thought You Might Like To Look At My Beaver
I Feed The Critters. The Yard Is Overrun. It Makes My Boyfriend Crazy. Today, While At Work, I Receive This Photo. Apparently They're Checking To See What Time I'll Be Home
I Was Doing Some Yard Work When I Saw A Roadrunner Running Around On My Roof. I Grabbed My Phone To Take A Shot, But It Jumped Off Just As I Snapped
Excuse Me, But Could I Borrow A Cup Of Sugar?
When You Try To Feed Bambies Some Cabbage, But You Have Poor Aim
On The Way To Work Today I Looked At My Dashboard With My Toy Dinosaurs On It, And I Thought, I Don't Remember Buying A Lizard
I HAVE A LIZARD IN MY CAR! When I got to work it was over by the passenger side door. I thought great, I'll just catch it and let it go. So I did catch it, but as I was walking to put the little guy in a bush it wiggled free and ran up the inside of my long sleeve shirt! Great, I have a lizard on me. I took off my shirt, it wasn't in the shirt and I tried to find it on my tee shirt. I couldn't find it so I put my shirt back on. Then I felt it on my shoulder, I took the shirt back off and it ran to the front of my tee shirt. I caught it and let it go....
My Dog Wouldn't Stop Barking So I Flipped On The Porch Light
I Said I Don't Want My Picture Taken
Oh Look, Honey.. There's A Sweet Little Chipmunk In The Bird House... *quickly Grabs Camera*
Landed On The Sun Roof... Not The Most Flattering Angle
Northern Cardinals Apparently Survive On A Steady Diet Of Tennis Balls
Got Yelled At Today
Behold - A Green Tree Frog In All Its Glory Exiting Our Spa
Soon As I Zoomed In It Screamed, Took A S*** And Flew Off
As you would, if you realized someone was long-lensing you as you pooped.
What Do You Think This Guy Wants To Tell Me? Guess I'll Never Know. Since He Wasn't Paying Rent I Evicted Him!
It Was A Few Years Back In Brisbane, Australia. He/She Got So Excited By The Selfie That Jumped Onto The Phone And I Dropped It. For A Second I Thought I'd Never Get It Back
This Little Guys Bum Is Literally Calling His Food To Him
This Great Horned Owl Doesn’t Believe A Word You Say
Derek Put The Seagull Down
Indignant Bluebird Staring In From The Window Feeder
My Husband Has Wings
Not Dead, Just Sunning
I'm Using A $200 Camera, I'm Shooting From More Than 100 Feet Away, I Spent 20 Minutes In Photoshop Getting It To Look This Good, And You Still Have To Look Twice To Even See The Damned Barred Owl That 30 Seconds With Google Will Provide You With Photos That Are 1000x Better
A Bird In The Bra Is Worth Two In The Bush. (Originally "In The Hand" And Original Quote Attributed To King Solomon)
I've never yet gotten a bird to eat out of my hand, but out of my bra, yes. i've even had squirrels in my bra. how many ladies can say that? File under: ways to amuse yourself in the winter during a pandemic.
Behold, The Icelandic Hover Fox
Back To The Mother Ship
Might Need To Work On My Backgrounds But He Was Relieved To See Me After A Long Night In Plastic Prison
I Said Good Day, Sir!
Tried To Take A Panoramic Photo While Doing A Safari Ride
Lighting? Check. Background? Check. Wildlife? Check. Pose? Oh
This Is My Friend’s Ring Camera
Am Relaxing On The Back Verandah, Minding My Own Business, And This Happens
My Dad had a running battle with one living it his roof. The final straw was installing sensor lights to blind it when it tried to walk across the wire to the roof. He got home very late the same night and as he drove into the drive way he was blinded by the lights. Yep the possum pushed the lights down to blind him back. At this point he realised he was never going to win and learned to live with it.
Boing
Some Stray Cat Snuck In Through My Cat Door. No Collar. No Chip
I've Transcended From Normal Into Paranormal Photography. Ghost Hummers!
Today Is The Perfect Opportunity To Share My Not-So-Crap Photo Of A Luna Moth I Saw Last Year. Look At His Little Pink Legs
Merry Christmas Everyone
I Was Trying To Get A Picture Of The Chicago Skyline, But Got Photobombed By This Majestic Avian Instead
My Bff Moved From The Left Coast To Florida. So She Sends Me Lots Of Bird Pictures. With Permission I Present The Skywalker
I Think It's Trying To Tell Me Something
Seagulls Keep Resting On The Skylight, Which Drives My Cat Insane
Nothing Makes You Want To Re-Assess Your Life Choices Like A Gull That’s Home Shopping, And You Can Barely Afford Matching Socks
Seagulls never pay for their food, that's why they are able to buy a house. See how you can learn from nature?
Deer?! These Lovely Ladies Were Strolling Down The Street In The Middle Of Chicago, Illinois! Gotta Love Urban Wildlife. So Here's My 1am Glamor Shot
Guys! I Told You! I’m Not Your Leader!
Is anyone else having a "Life of Brian" flashback? "You've got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals!" " YES, WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS"
Duck Duck - Goose!
Things Were All Right Until They Weren’t And It Felt Like Something Out Of A Horror Movie. Ok, Ok, Sorry To Disturb You
Please tell me this is a huge group of red-winged blackbirds and not some colorful version of a murder hornet.
Sure. Like That’s Not Creepy Af
Its Worse Its So Much Worse
Possum Broke Into My Friend's Roof A While Back. This Happens Often But You Don't Usually Get A Cross-Section View With Added Eye Contact
To the Americans in this, this is an Australian brushtail possum. Also, while I have your attention, could I ask you (for the sake of my dinner) to please specify if you're using Fahrenheit and not Celsius in online recipes? Thank you for your consideration.
FYI: baking something at 350C is not usually a recipe for food, it's a recipe for charcoal.
Geckos On Military Bases Are Bad-A**
I See Your Woodpile Snake Orgy, And Raise You One On A Fence
It Was A Pic Shared By My Aunt-In-Law And It Is In Nj Early This Morning. Look How High The Snow Is On The Deer! She Said More Than 30 Inches And Still Snowing! Had To Share! We’re Getting Dumped On Now In Me!
The Graceful Water Ballet Of A Duck Is Awe Inspiring
This Is The Pacifist Toad That Lives In Our Back Yard. Nearly Every Morning Last Summer He Greeted Me When I Opened Up The Skimmer To See If There Was Anything To Remove. It Was Him. He Was Always There To Remove
I Just Wanted A Nice Snow Goose Picture
Sums The Year Up Really Thanks For The Add
I Give To You, A Danish Wolf... We Have Very Few Wolves In Denmark, A Few Migrated Through Germany. And I Were So Lucky To Meet One, And This Is The Photo I Got
I *think* There Might Be An Elephant In This Picture Somewhere. He’s Betting You Can’t Find Him
I'm So Excited! I Finally Have A Great Photo Of A Bald Eagle To Share With You Guys!
If He Would Just Stop Hammering, I Might Catch Him
My Very Own Zebra Art! From The Kruger 2019
Trying To Take A Picture Of A Sunset While Being Photobombed By A Dolphin
Long-Horn Beetle Wearing Furry Slippers. His Feet Must Have Been Cold. Limpopo, South Africa
This Is A Coyote Desperately Looking For A Hole In The Netting To Get Away From An Enraged Opossum Which Was Chasing It
That's one opossum which did not take kindly to being coyote-sniffed
Nice To See The Glowing Harry Potter Stag Out And About In Our Local Woods!
Oops. He Was A Little Too Fast For Me! This Great Egret Was Running, So I Tried To Guess Where He/She Would Land Next, But I Was Off By Just A Wee Bit!
Death From Above
You Can See Its Peen With Balls!
That Was Well Brought Up
Late Night Visitor. Stayed 10 Mins Inside And Flew Out A Window. Batman... Come Back... Please
This Is What Happens When A Duck Decides To Bite You Exactly As You Take Its Photo. Also, You Get Bit
Dillo Crossing The Road. Bonus Point If You Spot The Road Runner
A Blue Tit
When You Open The Back Door And This Awaits You
Do you see it, folks? Even the squirrels are practicing social distancing! Oh, wow... my state's got a lot to learn from them!
It's time to throw on your crown and sing like a Disney Princess.
I'd Like To Introduce You To Bob And Rico, My Daughter's New Lock Down Buddies! Every Day For The Last 2 Weeks They Come For A Visit. I'm No Longer Sure Who Is Watching Who
At times to get our attention they will come and tap on our window with their beaks, and will stay anywhere from just a few minutes up to an hour! I feel the small white presents they leave on my balcony are a small price to pay for the wonderful exposure we are getting to this glorious wildlife.
Banana. Squirrel For Scale
It's Over. Even The Weather Is Swan. They Have Won
What To Make Of This?
Above This Crowned Hornbill Is A Bird Feeder Filled With Fat Balls
Weavers are very messy feeders and most of the fat ends up in fragments on the lawn, where hornbills and several other birds scoop them up. The hornbill feeds by picking up the fragment with the tip of its beak then tosses it up and catches it, as captured in this pic
Shall We Play A Little Game Of.... What Just Touched My Foot?
Mantis shrimp aka. thumb splitter. You're lucky not to have been thwacked.
As You Can See, This Fake Owl Jack Installed To Scare Birds From Our Deck Is Really Intimidating This Red-Tailed Hawk
Photograph Of Our Carrot Overlord. H A I L C A P R I C A
Not A Good Day For Someone
Manatee Resting In Our Local Marina
So... So sweet. The idea that anyone would want to do harm to a manatee is just evil.
Behold, A Majestic Wild Horse
I Was Looking For Packages.... But He Showed Me His Instead
These gecko pics bring back so many wonderful memories of living in Hawaii.
Riding Bikes In The Everglades Is Full Of Fun Surprises
This Is Not My Dog Waiting The Door
In Line To Be Vaccinated Late Last Night. This Fellow Was Not Pleased To Be Sharing Space With A Group Of Hopefuls
Trust Me... This Fox Is Not A Pet
It lives in the woods not far away, and occasionally stops by for a scratching session. I snapped this photo from inside my house.
I Went To The Bathroom To Take A [Dump], And Crouched Before Me Was A Deer Also Taking A [Dump]
Hiding
The Camouflage Is So Good You Might Not See It Straight Away
Managed To Catch An Aerial Battle Between A Buzzard And Two Crows On Our Walk Today! Had To Zoom Right In To Capture The Intensity Of It All
Let's Play Find The Robin
Curious Woolly Bois Stalk The Peaks Of The Welsh Border
He's desperately running away from the slate-mining dragons. No idea why they're mining slate.
I Learned Two Things This Day
1. Can confirm the iPhone 11 is waterproof. 2. Tadpoles are really hard to photograph.
Behold The Majestic Koala (When You Forget To Switch Off Flash)
This is not a koala, it is the elusive drop bear. Once he sees you it's too late. You have been warned.
One Day The Kitchen Window Will Get Cleaned... This Day (Three Years Ago Now) Was Not It
When Your Swimming Along And Something Brushes Your Leg. Yes, That Is A 40' Long Whale Shark. Surprise!!
"When a 40 foot long whale shark brushes your leg."
Worcester Has Flooded And The Swan Uprising Has Begun
Husband Told Me Our Cat Was Stuck In The Trash Can. Went To Help The Poor Cat And Found This. Ps, I’m The One That Just Had The Possum Waltzing Through My House Too
Hiding In Plain Sight All Day Until I Literally Tripped Over Him. My 4 "Watch" Dogs Are Fired
My Super Nosey Neighbour
I Was So Excited To Find This Very Unusual Armidillo Looking Bug With Its Very Odd "Butt Accessory " So I Immediately Posted Pictures So I Could Identify My Rare Find Only To Be Told. It Was A Roach Which Was Giving "Birth" To An Egg Casing. I Am Still Mortified!
How calm can you be to see that creature and just "take a photo" instead of burning your house down?
Turn Off That Light!
This Young Lady Kept Knocking On My Window This Morning Saying She Was Being Chased By An American Kestrel
Out Of Focus Deer Taking Off
The Urban Deer is in the process of evolving an invisibility shield to protect it from predators
There Is An Interloper In My Snack Cup
I'm So At Home In This Group
Trust Me There’s A Baby Owl On The Left And Mama Owl On The Right
It Was Amazing Experience, Less Than 3 Hours Ago In Jackson Hole, Wy. Pretty Sure This Is Brought To You By The Christmas Star
Oh My!!! Plop, Plop! Fizz, Fizz!
Tried To Get A Cute Photo Of The Otter Playing With A Pebble. Got A Crap Photo Of The Otter Playing With A Pebble And A Happy Photobomber
Sizeable Hawk. Jet Included For Scale
I Call This Little [Prick] Malfoy
He’s a male Anna’s hummingbird and he’s a total d**k. He sits in my lemon tree and guards the feeders and chases off any other hummingbird that he catches trying to feed. He does such a good job of this that he’s FAT. You ever see a fat hummingbird before? Well now you have.
Missed The Bird, But Captured The Falling Sunflower Seed
I Had To Wait For Just The Right Picture And I Think This Nailed It - But Maybe A Little Too On The Nose?
Big Ass Moth. Pizza For Scale
I Think My Lighting Is Off?
The Magnificent Mute Swan
BOOTY!! (reference from P90X. It's a workout program that's like, 20 years old)
Toad In My Yard, Bananarama For Scale
When You Blindly Stick Your Phone In A Culvert, Knowing You Have One Shot
I Present To You The Extremely Rare Two-Faced Cow Elk
Check Out My Beaver Pic
I Think This Image Is Relevant Here
Please, for the love of God, let's go back to using bananas for scale! Although this is a valid measuring unit for 2020-2021.
If You Look At This Picture Just Right, It Looks Like The Little Pig Is Hovering. Hover Pig Is Judging You For Not Driving Safely Enough!
“Something” Was Having An Existential Crisis On My Deck Last Night
Squirrel
If You Look Into Her Eye It Gets Weirder
Not Her Best Angle
Caught This Little Guy On My Neighborhood Walk The Other Day. Sister Act For Scale
Behold! The Biggest Skein Of Migrating Geese I've Ever Seen!
Fox
You'd Think Since I'm A Florida Panther Biologist, That I Just Snuggle Panthers All Day Long, Right?
I Will Leave The Captioning Of This Image To The Creative Imagination Of Other Group Members
This Is A Crap Picture I Took Of An 8 To 10 Foot Tiger Shark Who Ended Up Stalking Us This Morning While We Snorkeled In Crap Weather On Maui
Got This Pic Of An Eagle, But It Wasn't Too Clear, So I Thought I'd Help You Guys Out W The Details
Woke This Morning To A Possum Butt Poking Thru My Wall. Gave Him A Poke To Move Him Now To Fix The Hole So He Doesn't Come Any Further Inside
You know your house is not up to building regulations when possums are able to make holes in your walls. I mean, the critters don't even know how to handle a jackhammer.
Looks Like Someone Nursed Their Babies Too Long!
I've got a funny one with a clever seagull. "the man who has no imagination has no wings?" "Nope dumb humans, you have no wings, period!" 20180705_1...99e30f.jpg
My friend has a selfie of her laying down next to a dead raccoon on the ground and I feel like it fits here
Some of my added captions are dotted around that page, you can find one of them if you can find the original moose photo on the group that was reposted here :D
I've got a funny one with a clever seagull. "the man who has no imagination has no wings?" "Nope dumb humans, you have no wings, period!" 20180705_1...99e30f.jpg
My friend has a selfie of her laying down next to a dead raccoon on the ground and I feel like it fits here
Some of my added captions are dotted around that page, you can find one of them if you can find the original moose photo on the group that was reposted here :D