This Facebook Group Is All About Poor Wildlife Photos And They Are So Bad They’re Good

The internet is full of many unsuccessful wildlife pictures surfing around, but when the Crap Wildlife Photography Facebook group became the internet's powerhouse for this sort of content, they became cool and edgy—something they’d never been before.

The group’s success has to do with the fact that it’s one of the very few online communities that celebrate all the very bad efforts in photography. “The 'good' photo groups aren't interested in bad photography, of course, so it gives people somewhere to share their lesser-quality photos and have a laugh at themselves,” Tristan Kennedy, the creator of the group, told us some time ago.

But what exactly makes it so difficult to capture that pic-perfect shot when it comes to wildlife? Some time ago, we talked to Marina Cano, an award-winning wildlife photographer and Canon ambassador whose work has been on the covers of National Geographic, and in 2015, she was a finalist of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest.

Marina said that the difficult part “lies in how unpredictable the animals can be, but that’s also the most exciting thing about capturing these images.” This unexpectedness and jumpiness that wild animals have is also what makes the bad photographs so fun and relatable. We all have one in our camera roll and we’re often too embarrassed to share.

According to Marina, the most important thing to know before taking a camera is that “whatever happens in the day you will come back home happy to be in the wild.” On top of that, you need to be passionate, because in this case, “you won’t blame anything and just enjoy it.”

But when it comes to poorly executed photographs, people often blame wobbly cameras, bad weather, or not enough light. Unless you are submitting the picture to Crap Wildlife Photography, this is definitely not something you want in your images.

The photos shared on Crap Wildlife Photography are not to be taken seriously by any cost. People here are celebrating the sheer level of absurdity and lousiness, zero photography standards, and the worst timing ever. After all, we all are desperate for a good laugh these days.