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Photographer @james_roddie_photography has been aw

Photographer @james_roddie_photography has been awarded in the British Wildlife Photography Awards @bwpawards with this image.

“This was part of a long term project I ran a few years ago, documenting pine martens which would sporadically visit this abandoned house to hunt for mice. I used a DSLR camera trap for 3 months in the same location, and came away with a handful of images I really liked.”

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Photographer @lobopix is an iberian wildlife speci

Photographer @lobopix is an iberian wildlife specialist based in Spain, these are some of his camera trap images of lynx

“One of the most endangered cats on the planet passes in front of my camera trap, the elusive Iberian Lynx.”

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Photographer @silkycoyote has been working with ca

Photographer @atharva.raut capture this image of a

Photographer @atharva.raut capture this image of an ‘urban leopard’ with his camera trap

“In the middle of the metropolitan city of Mumbai, is a 104sq.km protected wilderness - Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). Surprisingly, this forest has the highest density of leopards in the world despite the overlap of an encroaching urban landscape. Leopards frequently venture out in the city on the outskirts of the protected area. This image of a sub-adult male leopard was shot in the outskirts of SGNP, in proximity of an apartment building. Coexistence at its finest! These leopards use the cover of the night, to stealthily traverse their urban habitat. Made this image with an intention to capture the resilience and wit of these incredible animals up close.”

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Photographer @vb_wildlife has been waiting for thi

Photographer @vb_wildlife has been waiting for this winter to try camera trapping again.

"Wild boar winter photography could be very challenging sometimes, mainly due to their noctural activity. One of the best ways to photograph them in the snow is to use Camtraptions equipment. I set my DSLR camera trap near to my backyard and took this photo after three nights."

Camtraptions PIR Motion Sensor v3 with two flashes.

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Photographer @finleydennisonphoto captured this be

Photographer @finleydennisonphoto captured this beautiful portrait of a squirrel in the snow with his camera trap set up.

"Red squirrel (Sciurus Vulgaris) - Whilst staying in the Cairngorms, I stumbled across a red squirrel in the local woodland. Giving me the idea to set up a camera, which would be triggered if the squirrels came to feed on the nuts I had left. The aim was to try and capture a wide angle perspective of the squirrel, incorporating its habitat and surroundings.
After a week of no luck with lots of trial and error, I was thrilled to find one morning that the squirrel had come, and everything had worked. Not only that, but an unexpected snow storm in the night, had transformed the woods. Amazingly the camera had captured the squirrel in a snowy wonderland, amongst the falling snowflakes.”

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Photographer @sveinbekkum based in Norway has been

Photographer @sveinbekkum based in Norway has been doing camera trapping and capture these images of winter hare

“The photo was taken in Lødingen, Northern Norway. And I used a Nikon D3200 with a nikon 18-70mm DX lens, and 2x Nikon SB-28 flashes. The camera was placed in a Camtraption housing, and trigged with a Camtraption PIR v3.0 sensor.

The camera trap I placed nearby a path in the deep snow, made by the hares. In deep snow conditions they often use the same route over and over, to move easier in the snow.”

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Photographer @zackclothierphotography capture this

Photographer @zackclothierphotography capture this image of a wolverine that he named: Best Of 2022 | "Symbol of the Wilderness"

“In the high mountains of Montana lives a creature with a formidable reputation. A vicious beast rumored to be capable of driving grizzly bears off of carcasses. Gulo gulo, the wolverine, is without a doubt one of Montana's rarest carnivores. A true symbol of the wilderness. I was lucky enough to capture this wolverine last spring on one of my DSLR camera traps.”

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Congratulations to photographer @sascha.fonseca, w

Congratulations to photographer @sascha.fonseca, who has won the People’s Choice award on the @nhm_wpy with his photo:

World of the snow leopard

“Against a backdrop of the spectacular mountains of Ladakh in northern India, a wild snow leopard has been caught in a perfect pose by Sascha’s carefully positioned camera trap.
Thick snow blankets the ground, but the big cat’s dense coat and furry footpads keep it warm. Sascha captured this image during a three-year camera-trap project high up in the Indian Himalayas. He has always been fascinated by snow leopards, not only because of their incredible stealth but also because of their remote environment, making them one of the most difficult large cats to photograph in the wild.”

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Photographer @coloradowildcam based in Boulder Col

Photographer @coloradowildcam based in Boulder Colorado has been using camera traps to photograph the wild life in the region. These are some of the results for this winter on bobcats

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Photographers @savagelensphoto dedicated the last

Photographers @savagelensphoto dedicated the last two winters in search of this elusive wild cat and last November a challenging camera trap project resulted on these images.

“Predicting where Canada Lynx will travel on the landscape can be difficult, as their movements seem to be very sporadic in the winter. Photographing them can be even more challenging.
They tend to travel game trails in the summer, but as soon as the snow hits, lynx are free to walk on top of the snow wherever they please. Just because you found tracks in a certain spot, doesn't mean they'll return there. Batteries need to endure temperatures down to -40, and lenses cover in frost quite often near water sources.
Is it discouraging to fail over and over again? Sometimes, yes. But countless hours in the field tracking and learning about the habits of lynx eventually pays off, and is it ever worth it.”

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Photographer @followmaxfollowmax based in the UK h

Photographer @followmaxfollowmax based in the UK has captured these images from his local camera trap project.

First image:
“This chap is the local dog otter. He is larger, more inquisitive and territorial compared to the juvenile in my last photograph.
Lovely to see him jump out of the river looking so shiny and healthy”

Second image:
“I used the recent frost to my advantage and captured this Otter on the edae of a frozen lake. This was no fluke however, using trail cameras and my tracking skills, I followed the frozen footsteps for 5 days for this final moment.”

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Photographer @lalawildlife capture this image in R

Photographer @lalawildlife capture this image in Rajasthan, India which he named:
Under the covers of darkness.

“This healthy Sub Adult Leopard decided to grace my camera trap that I had set up in hopes of photographing some smaller animals. Never fails to amaze me how nature always has the most random of surprises in store for you when you least expect it!

I've set up this DSLR Camera trap using the Camtraptions PIR V3 Sensor and a couple of Camtraptions F1 Flashes”

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Photographer @savannahrosewildlife based in Jackso

Photographer @savannahrosewildlife based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has captured this image of mountain lions with a camera trap.

“Night of the Hunter: In early 2021 I had the opportunity to track a mother mountain lion and her cub as they fed on an elk kill, and I wanted to get an intimate portrait of the two travelling. There was no snow at the time, so tracking them in the mud was a bit difficult as they walked over the rocky water's edge on their way to and from the bed site. I noticed a spot where the tracks passed between a murky puddle and a large boulder and decided that was an ideal "pinch point" to set up on. I even noticed a thin, crumbled piece of soft rock that the cats had stepped on. Sure enough, that night the cats triggered my camera right where I wanted them, and as an added bonus a late spring snow filled the scene with a dramatic white flurry.”

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Photographer @ms.wildlife.photography has successf

Photographer @ms.wildlife.photography has successfully tried camera trapping

“After receiving the gear from camtraptions I built my cam trap at the beginning of winter.

I always wanted to take pictures of pine martens but it is very difficult getting it in front of the camera the conventional way. That's why I wanted to invest in a camera trap system to be able to capture all the elusive and mostly night active animals in my region (South Germany).

After playing with the settings of the PIR V3 sensor through trial and error to see what works best for me I decided to deploy the system the first time. Weeks before I have scouted a location with my trail cam where a pine marten was passing by quite regularly.
After deploying the system for 7 nights I came back and was really happy to see this great result. For me personally it is the winter scene and the fluffy winter coat of the pine marten what makes this picture so awesome.”

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After weeks of waiting for the winter to come in e

After weeks of waiting for the winter to come in east Iceland, photographer @ingolfur.david finally got an image of his favorite subject, the arctic fox.

“This was taken on my farm where I follow wild foxes. Here in Iceland, Arctic foxes are mostly brown and they are super skittish since you’re allowed to hunt them, amazingly. And hunting is done with government support; they kill them in dens with young. I’m trying to bring awareness over here in Iceland to this issue. This needs to stop, the arctic fox is our only native predator on mice.”

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Photographer @pwatsonphotos based in Switzerland c

Photographer @pwatsonphotos based in Switzerland capture this image of a roe deer.

“A curious roe deer buck inspects my camera trap. Roe deer shed their antlers in late autumn or early winter, hence why this buck has no antlers. However you can see the bumps on the top of the head where the new antlers will grow from.

I set up the camera trap in a forest in the UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch in central Switzerland and left it there for 2 months hoping to capture lots of wildlife. When I returned 2 months later, the memory card was filled with photos of roe deer, badgers, foxes, pine and stone martens, and squirrels. This region of Switzerland also has lynx and wolves, but unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures of them... yet.

Equipment used: Nikon D7200 + 18-55mm lens. 2x Nikon SB-700 Flashguns with Camtraptions wireless triggers and battery adaptors to extend battery life, Camtraptions PIR wireless sensor.”

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Photographer @marco_andreani_photo based in Italy

Photographer @marco_andreani_photo based in Italy captured this image of a gray heron

"This photo was born from my desire to experiment, to place the equipment inside the river to see the life hidden between the banks of the small river near home.

When I set up the camera I had a precise idea in my head, a shot that I had imagined, but which unfortunately I was unable to achieve in a month and a half of monitoring. However, this didn't prevent me from being able to obtain an interesting photo of a species that I have never seen photographed with a camera trap, in It's hunting environment. So I followed the life of the grey heron for several weeks until I got this shot. With the elegance of a dancer on stage, the heron showed up at the same spot every day to hunt small fish and river crayfish. How much life there's where we don't even image."

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Photographer @daryljpeters took this image in his

Photographer @daryljpeters took this image in his suburban front garden on the outskirts of Worthing in Sussex

“For me watching wildlife and its behaviour is one of the best parts of wildlife photography.

Many times you can walk away without a single photograph. But still had an amazing encounter or seen something new and exciting.

Camera trapping means that you are not there at the moment. However, it does allow you to capture some pretty amazing glimpses into the lives of the wildlife that surround us.

These were two of six regular visitors to my garden over the last 12 months. The one on the left was very dominant and frequently chased off the others. On one occasion squaring up to a Badger sow, albeit very briefly! The trail camera video missed this interaction but the DSLR camera trap just caught it.”

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Photographer @brenden_simonson has based his work

Photographer @brenden_simonson has based his work in the Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

“The crested porcupine Africa's largest rodent weighing in at just under 30 pounds.
Porcupines are almost strictly nocturnal mammals spending their nights foraging for bulbs, tubers, barks and fallen fruits.

Here a mother and young search the ground for fallen desert dates in the height of the dry season.”

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