This Facebook Group Is Dedicated To Wildlife Photos That Are So Bad They’re Good

Capturing a breathtaking moment in wildlife is probably as hard as snapping a goofy-looking picture of a Tokay gecko minding its own business in the Florida Everglades.

Just think about it—conditions have to be perfect, you have to stumble on something you don’t often see, and in the end, the camera still sees things differently than you do, so you have to compensate for it. It’s hard.

So, it’s only appropriate to celebrate both the good and the bad (and the so bad, it’s good), which the Crappy Wildlife Photography group does.

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#1 I Took This Picture Of A Carpenter Bee Last Summer

#2 Jump With Joy

#3 I Spent About 25 minutes slowly Crawling On My Stomach Through Frozen Mud On A Cold winter morning, Lining Up the Perfect Shot Exposure Analogue Camera, Standing Majestically For The Entire Time Crawling, In second shot looks Directly And The Loudest Burp I've Ever Heard

So, there’s a wildlife photography group on Facebook that celebrates moments in natural life that probably won’t go into the history books, but they will certainly go down in history as some of the “best” photographs of animals out there.

Yep, we’re talking about Crappy Wildlife Photography, which is home to over 455,000 crappy animal photography lovers.

#4 I Still Can’t Tell If This Is Crap Wildlife Photography Or Just Incredibly Cute Wildlife Photography

#5 I Know, I Know, Puh-Lease. I'm The Cutest Thing Ever, Right?

#6 If 2020 Was An Eagle

So, for context, what makes a photograph good or bad?

For the common Joe with a simple approach to enjoying pictures, it’s whether they like it or not. It’s a mere criterion of taste, which, while it can have objective determining factors, usually it’s subjective and that’s quite alright.

#7 I Was In The Middle Of A Zoom When I Noticed This Bastard

#8 Timed My Shot Perfectly. *sigh*

#9 Didn’t Know I Was Playing The Sims

However, when you get into professional photography and the idea of practice makes perfect curses your eyesight forever to start seeing all that is bad in a piece, you begin to understand just how hard it is to pull off a good photograph.

Photographer Kevin LJ lists 5 key criteria that have to be mastered to make a good photograph: light and exposure, composition, color and tone, timing, and relationship.

#10 Realizing I’d Made A Mistake

#11 When You Have An Encounter With A Rare Predator But Get Photobombed By A Magpie