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Photographer @jannicokelk award-winning image captures Macrotis lagotis, known as “Ninu” by Indigenous communities in central Australia. This powerful camera tap shot of the greater bilby, earned him the prestigious Impact Award at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, showcasing the significance and beauty of this unique species.

“It’s still quite surreal - but I’m beyond excited to share that my image Ninu - won the Impact Award at the most prestigious wildlife photo awards on Earth - the 60th @nhm_wpy - Wildlife Photographer of the Year held at the Natural History Musuem in London.
Ninu is one of many words for the ‘bilby’ used by Indigenous groups thoughout the central deserts of Australia.

This image is the result of an ongoing relationship with @aridrecovery, who has given me unwavering support and friendship over the last five years.
From near 60,000 images, the contest whittled down the entries to 100 of the worlds best wildlife photos of the year.

This image was captured using @camtraptions gear, @canonanz cameras and a bunch of ebay tripods because I’m cheap.
Big thanks to Arid Recovery and the @ilcp_photographers for their constant“

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Photographer @jeevan_vridhan captures a powerful i

Photographer @jeevan_vridhan captures a powerful image, bringing attention to the complex relationship between leopards and humans

“Leopards are one of the most adaptable and elusive big cats, and their ability to thrive in a range of habitats has resulted in their coexistence with humans in many parts of India.
However, as human populations have increased and encroached on leopard habitats, incidents of human-leopard conflict have also increased.

Lack of awareness and education about leopards and their behavior is also a significant factor contributing to human-leopard conflict in India. Many people are not aware of the potential dangers of encountering a leopard, nor do they know how to respond to a leopard sighting. Additionally, people living in close proximity to leopard habitats often lack the knowledge and resources to secure their homes and livestock from leopard predation.

Lack of effective management and enforcement of laws and regulations related to wildlife conservation is also a significant factor contributing to human-leopard conflict in India. Wildlife conservation efforts are often underfunded and understaffed, making it challenging to implement and enforce laws effectively.”

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Photographer @cainedelacy captures an incredible moment of a bear at a water source using his camera trap setup. This shot showcases the challenges and persistence involved in wildlife photography.

“Here’s something new. I’ve been working on this shot with my friend @coloradowildcam at one of his amazing bear spots for the last two years.

The vision was a super close up shot of a bear in the water or drinking from this pond and try to make it a split shot using my underwater housing. The trouble is gear. As this is not a standard use of the underwater gear it’s incredibly hard to keep the housing water tight as we need cables to go in and out of it for wireless transmitters and receivers (they don’t fit in the housing). So given that and the habits of bears to really take physical interest in camera gear the hope was to get a frame before they trash it and submerge the camera. Soon after this shot another young bear came by and tipped it over. Luckily we went there soon after to get it and while the lens survived the camera didn’t as water slowly leaked in.

Here is the best shot to date. It’s not exactly how I wanted it. It’s a bit soft (hard to nail focus when you can’t line up the frame or focus point), and lighting is super challenging as the flashes didn’t fire (batteries-oh the fun of camera trapping). But it is a great motivator to keep going and working on the idea and concept to really get the shot that we envision.

We persist and I hope to have more shots soon and we line up all the vectors - bear activity, batteries, tech working properly at once, focus, lighting, and everything else. I’ll post a video to my story from the trail camera of this moment.”

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Photographer @smitsmitty captures a striking momen

Photographer @smitsmitty captures a striking moment of a tiger in its natural habitat using his camera trap setup. He titled the image ‘King of the Far Eastern taiga.’

“Taking these photos was very challenging for me. I have recently started to master the technique of remote wildlife photography and it has enticed me a lot.

Thousands of kilometers of bad road and hundreds of liters of fuel burned, a whole series of failures and miscalculations in small things and all stages of acceptance in general finally there is a result!

The striped big man in my photos was walking one popular path on the night of May 1. These places in the south of Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East are very popular with tourists for beach vacations. They don’t even know that there are such big cats living next door to their beach camping site.

Setup: Nikon D5, contraptions Wireless PIR Motion Sensor v3, WIRELESS TRIGGERS V2, camera housing, 2x speedlite Nikon SB28.”

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Photographer @andrew.zimmerman.photography, an und

Photographer @andrew.zimmerman.photography, an underwater photographer and conservation biologist, captured this nighttime image of a Red Fox using a camera trap near his apartment complex.

“This image of a Red Fox was the first camera trap image that I was truly proud of. It was taken within the woods of my apartment complex in the first 6 months of camera trapping. Although I haven’t been camera trapping for long, I still consider it my favorite camera trap image. Sometimes wish I still lived in that apartment so I could photograph them more.”

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Photographer @davidmayorphotographer created this

Photographer @davidmayorphotographer created this fascinating composite of eight images, captured by a single camera trap, highlighting the variety of endangered species visiting a cenote in Mexico.

“I took a series of photos of the same spot where you can appreciate the diversity of animals that come to drink from the Cenote during the dry season.
These are 8 photos in one, all the animals are in their place.
5 of these animals are threatened with extinction due to the disappearance of their habitat.

Text: Biodiversity in Quintana Roo.
Stack of photographs taken in a Cenote in Quintana Roo, Mexico.

From left to right :
Crax rubra - Male, Bat, Buteogallus urubitinga, Nasua narica, Cyanocompsa parellina - Male, Dendrocincla homochroa, Panthera Onca - Male, Ateles geoffroyi - Female.”

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Photographer @sandro_pollinger, based in Valais, S

Photographer @sandro_pollinger, based in Valais, Switzerland, captured this stunning shot of a Eurasian Lynx at a popular marking spot.

“The head of the area is looking for his "marker" again
Cuddles at a popular marker spot
Eurasian Lynx | Valais 2024”

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Photographer @franciscoandreasphotography, an envi

Photographer @franciscoandreasphotography, an environmental engineer and nature photographer, has been using camera traps to support the @colocoloproject, which focuses on studying and conserving Chile’s only endemic feline, Leopardus colocola.

“Photography is a very powerful tool for communicating what we do. In recent years, we have been using it to share our conservation efforts, with the goal of reaching communities and engaging them, making them part of the conservation project. A striking image can be a very effective tool.
Currently, we are working with new technologies, such as Camtraptions, which involve setting up a camera trap in the field with sensors connected to professional cameras to capture high-quality photos. These images can help connect people more closely to our work and make them part of the conservation efforts.
We are deploying some of these devices in different areas of natural reserves to generate new information and images that raise awareness about the efforts we are making with the Colocolo Project @colocoloproject. 🎥 @anaturbay_”

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Photographer @sonny.parker captures a stunning mom

Photographer @sonny.parker captures a stunning moment of a snowshoe hare in its natural habitat, after weeks of perseverance and patience with camera traps, in an image selected as a finalist in the 2024 cangeo Wildlife Photography of the Year competition.

“I started a photo story project on snowshoe hares last winter. Hares are most active at night so I knew camera traps were going to be a good tool. Unfortunately, camera traps are much more finicky than your typical game camera from Canadian Tire. They include a lot of components that all need to work in sync with each other and there seems to be hundreds of ways it can go wrong. After a few weeks of trial and excessive error, I headed out to check a camera after a week since setting it. A blizzard had happened the night before so I expected everything to be buried. I was right. After digging out everything and letting the camera dry out I quickly scrolled through thousands of false triggers, like I usually do. I was about to erase the card and then noticed a single image with a different look to it. Finally! Not only did a hare trigger the camera (despite one flash not working and trigger burst failing), the only photo ended up being well lit, in focus, nicely composed, and occurred just as the blizzard was starting. There’s always an element of luck involved in wildlife photography, but patience, perseverance, and passion pays off! Hare numbers are on the rise so I hope this winter allows me to create some interesting images about this keystone species.”

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Photographer @krks_wildlife showcases how he uses

Photographer @krks_wildlife showcases how he uses a camera trap to photograph a bear.

“Sometimes I manage to take a photo that brings me a lot of joy, and then it waits several months before I release it. I don’t even know why I do it that way—l just wait for the moment when I’m in the mood. For wildlife
photography, I also use a special setup with a camera trap that includes a DSLR, a white flash, and a wireless motion sensor. When I first got it, I thought it would make photography effortless. Unfortunately, the opposite turned out to be true. That’s why l’m even happier when a shot turns out well. Thanks to @jablonicky_matej for the help with this photo.”

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Photographer @paolo_vimercati captured this female

Photographer @paolo_vimercati captured this female deer in the stunning Northern Italian landscape using a camera trap.

“I took this photo of a female deer on the mountains near my home in Northern Italy, using a Pir sensor V3 and two flashes.
I travel a lot abroad for work, but the high autonomy and reliability of the Camtraptions gear allow me to leave my equipment for many weeks into the wild”

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Photographer @maurizioberni_photos from Italy capt

Photographer @maurizioberni_photos from Italy captured this intriguing camera trap photo of a fox titled “La Volpe e la Zanzara”.

“While walking through the woods, I noticed an old tree that had recently fallen and thought it might be a home for some animals; after some time, I noticed many creatures going inside of it. This photo of the fox was captured with a 10mm lens, camera inside of the tree trunk and two flashes with low light. I have taken, in this location, other photos with additional flashes to further illuminate the landscape around the fallen tree.”

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Photographer @billgorum captured this captivating

Photographer @billgorum captured this captivating camera trap photo of a ringtail, showcasing the elusive beauty of this nocturnal creature.

“This Ringtail was captured on April 25, 2024, 11:17 pm in central New Mexico. The Ringtail is near the top of an approximately two meter high “dry waterfall” in a canyon I’ve been camera trapping in for a couple years now. The composition is set for a Mountain Lion at the very top of the “waterfall”, a shot I’ve yet to get. Even though the Ringtail is small in the frame, I like the shapes of the boulders and the stars in the sky. Not really happy with the flash illuminating the oak leaves in the upper right though.”

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Photographer and cinematographer @christopher_bear

Photographer and cinematographer @christopher_beard_ captured this stunning photo highlighting the beauty of this remote landscape, where even the smallest animals find their homes in breathtaking locations.

“The photo is of a mountain hare in Kyrgyzstan ( Sary Chat National Park ) much of the local wildlife in these mountains use large boulders to make their homes, this guy chose possibly the most beautiful place, and so I set their trap there. I caught this photo after about 2 weeks this is part of a multi-year project to photograph the different wildlife in this region of Kyrgyzstan.”

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Photographer @a.castillo.photography captured this

Photographer @a.castillo.photography captured this photo of a bobcat with a camera trap in Florida, USA, on May 31, 2024.

“Big Cypress Preserve is in the swamp. Traps here are extremely difficult due to flood, a lot of bear activity, abundant alligators, and water moccasins. I placed my camera traps on small islands in the middle of the swamp. To reach these islands, we hiked through the swamp with water above the knee. It’s beautiful here, but the heat and mosquitoes make the stay difficult.”

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Photographer @ryan.pennesi.photography captured th

Photographer @ryan.pennesi.photography captured this close-up of an American Marten with a camera trap during his conservation work.

“This is an American Marten getting up close and personal with the camera trap. In the winter of 2016 I landed a research assistant position with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) in the Adirondack region of New York. In my off time I would set out to photograph these charismatic weasels. This mossy log was near a research station which had a trail camera mounted to a tree, a “skunk scent” lure, and some hung roadkill beaver meat to attract the mustelids.

I could see that martens had traversed the log from scat left behind. This male was a study animal that was part of the monitoring project I got to help out with. If you look closely you’ll see an ear tag with a unique serial number. The camtraptions sensor allowed me to get my camera close enough to be able to zoom in on the ear tag numbers and identify individuals.”

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Photographer @raulcastrou captured a stunning came

Photographer @raulcastrou captured a stunning camera trap photo of a jaguar in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Known for its rich biological diversity, this region boasts eight main ecosystems, each supporting a wide range of unique flora and fauna.

“Finally, I did it! After many months of searching and thousands of kilometers traveled, I managed to photograph what, to me, is the quintessence of Mexico’s jungles—one of the most beautiful and perfect things nature has to offer. A dream fulfilled.

Where a powerful gaze projects the indomitable force of this being and connects us with the numerous legends that have woven its history.

It’s not just an image; it’s the essence of the jungle and an invitation to marvel at the grandeur of wildlife.

I call for conservation and hope that this photograph inspires others to see beyond the visible, to value biodiversity, and to protect the natural treasures we share with these legendary beings.”

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Photographer @grantwebsterphoto used a camera trap

Photographer @grantwebsterphoto used a camera trap in Iowa to capture these striking images of a bobcat.

“This is private property in Iowa, USA that I have been scouting for three years. In January of this year I purchased two Camtraptions systems and set them up at two separate locations where I have documented bobcat activities. I positioned one camera trap at the edge of a woodland pond where there is a fallen tree bridging two sides of the pond. On this particular evening a bobcat crossed over a log and using the PIR motion sensor I was able to capture this perfect photo. I have one off camera flash (camera right) as a key and one off camera flash (camera left) as a fill, both triggered with camtraptions transmitters and receivers. I use Nikon D750 and Nikon SB-28 flashes”

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Photographer @thesantogrial captured this image wi

Photographer @thesantogrial captured this image with his camera trap in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

“Beauty of an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), a young male exploring the territory of a larger adult ocelot. Endangered in Mexico.”

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Photographer Alexis Castillo captured these photos

Photographer Alexis Castillo captured these photos of black bears at Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, USA. They were shared in our Facebook group called Remote and Camera Trap Photography. Join us and share your own wildlife photos there!

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