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ity fails at oakland zoo have struck again i was like heck my body is doing well i m going to hike the zoo hills today instead of renting a scooter i am optimistic five minutes in i caught my toe at an unmarked raised edge at a viewing platform and nearly ate shit face first on concrete with all my camera gear on my back siiiiiigh tbd on if knees will cooperate now or i have to shell out for an ecv posted 1 day ago 495 notes this has been a complaint zoo accessibility text sunday 17 may 2026 cotton top tamarins always seem to be really interested in my masks even at different facilities i m sure it s because most places have keepers masking around primates still and not because i m a marmoset magnet regardless it s absolutely delightful to have an entire troupe congregate directly in front of your face and examine you studiously alt it leads to some wonderful portraits too alt alt alt posted 4 days ago 1 092 notes tumblrask friday 15 may 2026 hi what kind of camera s and lens es do you use for your wildlife photography right now i use a sigma 60 600 4 5 6 3 and a canon 35mm 1 8 macro i frequently rent a canon 85mm 1 2 and a canon 70 200 2 8 amazingly we are very close to fully crowdfunding the latter of the two rentals i should be able to purchase it soon which is good because it s my main workhorse for dark indoor settings posted 6 days ago 36 notes text friday 15 may 2026 animalphotorefs animalphotorefs animalphotorefs baby capybara photography trip fundraising begins okay folk the poll indicated enough of you are able to contribute towards traveling for baby capybaras that might be able to pull it off i ve officially launched a new ko fi goal to fundraise for it remember this is one of the babies we re hoping to get five million photos of for the repository alt photo by m owyang posted with permission and not part of repository photos that are free to use here s the important details a zoo within reasonable road trip distance for me just had a litter of capybaras two weeks ago they re stinking cute it s a two day drive each way and i plan to spend two days at the zoo i ll be car camping all of the nights on the road but need a hotel or airbnb for two nights in the city my original cost estimate was a little off due to the ridiculousness of gas prices at the moment r i p but i think 800 is the minimum amount i need to raise for this trip if we can fully fund the trip my plan is to go in mid may before the babies have too much time to grow up because rodents grow up so dang fast which means we ve got about two weeks to make this work if we can t raise enough funding for the trip to happen all contributions towards it will be put in a pot to be used for the next photography trip ideally i d refund everyone but payment processors make that so dang hard are we hyped for baby citrus bathing web footed oddly chill rodents i hope so because i am let s make this dream of cuteness a reality support animal photo reference repository support animal photo reference repository ko fi baby capybaras guaranteed holy crap folks y all funded the minimum amount needed for this trip in less than 24 hours alt there were also two incredibly generous donations to which i must say wow you must really like capybara and thank you so much i m going to leave the goal up and continued donations are always welcome 800 is an estimate but a buffer is always helpful if there s a bunch of additional contributions i may be able to add an extra day for photography at another nearby facility as before any funds not used on the trip will go into a kitty for future photo trips operation babybaras is a go i am setting off on operation babybaras tomorrow i ll be shooting monday and tuesday of next week unfortunately it looks like the steller s sea lion has moved on from the sf pier but if the funding stretches to cover it i ll do at least one other facility while i m in the bay area to flesh out some species like spotted hyenas i feel like i should say this if you ever see me around at a place doing photography you re always welcome to say hi i am three raccoons in a trenchcoat as are all long term tumblr denizens and i promise it will not be weird key characteristics to identify why animals do the thing in the wild hair up in a high bun n95 at all times probably an industrial one because my camera eyepiece shreds nicer ones sigh wrist braces almost always a ridiculously giant lens on a cross body strap i might ask to take a bit to finish up what i m trying to shoot before chatting but it s always fun and never an inconvenience to meet other hellsite humans you don t even have to compliment my shoelaces posted 6 days ago 568 notes via text sunday 10 may 2026 animalphotorefs animalphotorefs photos of the day snow leopard mother s day artists creating derivative or transformative works without ai have blanket permission to use these and all photos in the repository as references including works that will may be sold the animal photo reference repository is an independent permanently open access project and funded entirely by donations please consider contributing if you can patreon ko fi a few more from the archives alt alt posted 1 week ago 1 612 notes via text sunday 10 may 2026 animalphotorefs photo of the day bornean orangutans let s snuggle with mama alt the animal photo reference repository is an independent permanently open access project and funded entirely by donations artists creating derivative or transformative works without ai have blanket permission to use all photos in the repository as references patreon ko fi posted 1 week ago 227 notes via text thursday 07 may 2026 animalphotorefs important poll for future site features one of the most requested features for the site is a random image button it is coming as part of the major site update in the works but i need to know how you want it to work my dev and i have completely different preferences re the ui so i decided we re just going to ask the audience we re building it for the reference in my head is the way stumbleupon used to work for folk who didn t use it or would be too young to remember it you went to the stumbleupon website and it gave you a blank page with a button that said stumble when you clicked the button it would load a random webpage the button stayed maybe in a top nav and you could click it again to stumble on a new random site i envision and analog of this for the repository where there is a single originally empty random image page at random that you d navigate to then when you click a button it loads a single image inside the page the url of the page would stay permanently at random there would be a thing to click if you wanted to go to the permalink of the individual image but the way it would display that it would be loaded inside the random page rather than taking you to the image s specific permalink my dev guy envisions a random option more like the current xkcd feature in that option the option for a random image would be i don t know quite the right words it would still be a link in a menu but instead of taking you to a specific random page it would just take you to a random image s permalink like xkcd takes you directly to a new comic s permalink he envisions a random button appearing on each individual image like on xkcd so you can navigate to a new random image without having to hit the nav link again i think he imagines it as being something that would only appear once you hit random image the first time and would not necessarily be a permanent fixture on every single image open the way it is on every xkcd comic what would be better for how you want to use a random image tool i know people have requested it for things like warm ups and practice that doesn t require choosing what to draw as a non artist my inclination is that a single image siloed on a fairly blank page would be cleaner and have less distractions but would still give you a way to click through to the image permalink if you want to see all the tags or the species info my dev guy think it would be more useful to just take you to a new image permalink every time you hit the button so that you would have all the information associated with the image immediately aesthetically i want the clean container and don t want to clutter the image permalink pages but that is also definitely influenced by my fondness for extinct websites like stumbleupon i would rather go with whatever is best for the people using the site even if i don t prefer it personally please vote on the poll but also tell me in the notes what your use case would be and what would be the smoothest ui even if it s different from what i ve described here random page options images are loaded inside a static page random with minimal text image info random button takes you to individual permalink image pages w all tags and info neither will explain other preferences in notes null answer to see votes see results posted 2 weeks ago 62 notes via text tuesday 05 may 2026 animalphotorefs photos of the day vervet monkeys and their canines let s continue the teeth theme this week alt alt alt alt the animal photo reference repository is an independent permanently open access project and funded entirely by donations artists creating derivative or transformative works without ai have blanket permission to use all photos in the repository as references patreon ko fi posted 2 weeks ago 251 notes via text monday 04 may 2026 animalphotorefs photo of the day cheetah teef and tongue alt the animal photo reference repository is an independent permanently open access project and funded entirely by donations artists creating derivative or transformative works without ai have blanket permission to use all photos in the repository as references patreon ko fi i don t remember taking this photo but gosh i love this photo posted 2 weeks ago 664 notes via text monday 04 may 2026 animalphotorefs oooo i have an idea since the fundraising for operation babybara has exceeded the goal i m trying to figure out if i could do some additional cool photography while i m in california if there s enough surplus donated i ve been thinking about possibly doing one of the local zoo to get more primate photos san francisco now has my favorite species of lemur and i know there s a number of monkey species in oakland that i don t have photos of but i have an alternate idea there is an absolutely massive male steller sea lion hanging out at the piers in san francisco if he is still around in a couple weeks i could go add another marine mammal to the site what do you guys think if there s funding for an extra photography day would you prefer go find the steller sea lion if he s still there primates primates primates either is good null vote to see results see results posted 2 weeks ago 62 notes via text sunday 03 may 2026 animalphotorefs animalphotorefs baby capybara photography trip fundraising begins okay folk the poll indicated enough of you are able to contribute towards traveling for baby capybaras that might be able to pull it off i ve officially launched a new ko fi goal to fundraise for it remember this is one of the babies we re hoping to get five million photos of for the repository alt photo by m owyang posted with permission and not part of repository photos that are free to use here s the important details a zoo within reasonable road trip distance for me just had a litter of capybaras two weeks ago they re stinking cute it s a two day drive each way and i plan to spend two days at the zoo i ll be car camping all of the nights on the road but need a hotel or airbnb for two nights in the city my original cost estimate was a little off due to the ridiculousness of gas prices at the moment r i p but i think 800 is the minimum amount i need to raise for this trip if we can fully fund the trip my plan is to go in mid may before the babies have too much time to grow up because rodents grow up so dang fast which means we ve got about two weeks to make this work if we can t raise enough funding for the trip to happen all contributions towards it will be put in a pot to be used for the next photography trip ideally i d refund everyone but payment processors make that so dang hard are we hyped for baby citrus bathing web footed oddly chill rodents i hope so because i am let s make this dream of cuteness a reality support animal photo reference repository support animal photo reference repository ko fi baby capybaras guaranteed holy crap folks y all funded the minimum amount needed for this trip in less than 24 hours alt there were also two incredibly generous donations to which i must say wow you must really like capybara and thank you so much i m going to leave the goal up and continued donations are always welcome 800 is an estimate but a buffer is always helpful if there s a bunch of additional contributions i may be able to add an extra day for photography at another nearby facility as before any funds not used on the trip will go into a kitty for future photo trips operation babybaras is a go posted 2 weeks ago 568 notes via text saturday 02 may 2026 animalphotorefs baby capybara photography trip fundraising begins okay folk the poll indicated enough of you are able to contribute towards traveling for baby capybaras that might be able to pull it off i ve officially launched a new ko fi goal to fundraise for it remember this is one of the babies we re hoping to get five million photos of for the repository alt photo by m owyang posted with permission and not part of repository photos that are free to use here s the important details a zoo within reasonable road trip distance for me just had a litter of capybaras two weeks ago they re stinking cute it s a two day drive each way and i plan to spend two days at the zoo i ll be car camping all of the nights on the road but need a hotel or airbnb for two nights in the city my original cost estimate was a little off due to the ridiculousness of gas prices at the moment r i p but i think 800 is the minimum amount i need to raise for this trip if we can fully fund the trip my plan is to go in mid may before the babies have too much time to grow up because rodents grow up so dang fast which means we ve got about two weeks to make this work if we can t raise enough funding for the trip to happen all contributions towards it will be put in a pot to be used for the next photography trip ideally i d refund everyone but payment processors make that so dang hard are we hyped for baby citrus bathing web footed oddly chill rodents i hope so because i am let s make this dream of cuteness a reality support animal photo reference repository support animal photo reference repository ko fi posted 2 weeks ago 568 notes via text saturday 02 may 2026 animalphotorefs baby capybara photography trip fundraising begins okay folk the poll indicated enough of you are able to contribute towards traveling for baby capybaras that might 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