Weekly Photography Assignment: Animal Faces

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Each week we’ll be giving you a theme that you can submit a photo for, and we’ll choose our favourite to be featured on the Nature TTL website. Participating in these assignments will be a great way for you to encourage yourself to push the boundaries of your photography and improve together as a community on the website.

Enter to be our Monthly Assignment Winner!

From these weekly favourites, each month we will select one exceptional image, crowning the photographer as the Monthly Assignment Winner. This talented photographer’s captivating image will be shared on our Instagram story and in our newsletter.

Remember to include your Instagram handle in each weekly entry for a chance to be featured!

Week 296: Animal Faces

Our theme this week is Animal Faces, and we’d love to see what fantastic images of wildlife faces you can take! There is so much that can be communicated in an animal’s facial features. Perhaps you will choose to focus on the eyes of a bird, or capture the inquisitve expression of a mammal that turns to look your way. Look for unqiue ways to capture their characters in a portrait, and above all, have fun doing it! Whether you’re a seasoned nature photographer, or are new to the genre, the options for awesome portraits of animal faces are endless, and we can’t wait to see what inspiring images you can create.

Here are some tutorials to help you:

To enter your photo to this assignment, add it in the comments below this post. By submitting your photo, you are giving us permission to feature your photo the following week if it is chosen as one of our favourites. Please keep images under 2MB in size otherwise you may have difficulty uploading them.

weekly photo assignment — To enter your photo, look at the comments at the bottom of the page and press the ‘Upload Image’ button.

Here are some guidelines to keep things running smoothly:

Photos must be your own work
Please enter no more than 3 photos per week
Please only enter photos taken within the LAST WEEK
Include a description with your photo and tell us a bit about it!

You have until next Monday, 9th of September, to submit your photo.

Last week’s winner

Last week’s theme was Garden Wildlife – and our favourite image this week is:

This week’s winner is this image, captured by Andrew Thomson: ‘In Australia we can get many different creatures visiting our back yards. I live on a small suburban lot very close to Brisbane and often get visited by Coastal Pythons. This one was approximately 2.5m in length and about 10cm thick. I waited patiently for some time waiting to capture a flickering of the tongue, but it did not happen. It is easy to know when one of these magnificent specimens is around because of the change in the bird calls, obviously warning of danger.’

This is an excellent portrait of a rather unusual species for the ‘Garden Wildlife’ theme. The use of light cleverly highlights the subject, with the darker elements of the background providing highly effective contrast and a strong sense of mood and atmosphere. Well done, and thank you to all who entered!