#project photography

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.

[cassandragemini]

Aimee, from Leonard Nimoy’s 2010 photography series Secret Selves

Aimee — tattoo and body piercing

I like being a girl…no one knows I am a woman, let alone a lesbian. My beard is natural, there is no imbalance.

[bitesonmyneck]

Ethel Cain shot by Silken Weinberg // The Blair Witch Project (1999) dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez

@mothercain

[glimpseinto]

Tokyo (2008) by Willem Alink on Flickr.

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Berlin Atonal festival Sergey Skip

[wintercorrybriea]

y project x solomon

[myreitha]

So I uh, did it again? A friend called this a Celestial design, so that's what they are now. My Celestial Gloves.

Paint is Jacquard Lumiere Metallic paint in the color 552 Bright Gold! Gloves are a pair that I probably got at a thrift store years ago??

Enjoy! I hope y'all like this pair as much as you liked the last one! :)

[rosieandthemoon]

light as a feather

[thepapersnail]

Shuji Terayama, from Photothèque imaginaire de Shuji Terayama, les gens de la famille Chien Dieu, 1975

[humanoidhistory]

The launch of Gemini X on July 18, 1966.

[octaviasdread]

(no reposts)

Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

[wanderlandjournal]

august sunrise

[constantlyfalling]

Southern Sun

Southern Trans Youth Emergency Project

[xeptum]

cabbage puppy!!! source

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By Jean Dawson

[theenbyroiderer]

Sleepy dog modeling some more crochet ferns for my moss wall project.