Magic Like Clockwork - Submitted By Starmagnets

“I have no master, except the wind that blows free!” - Submitted by: fastman27

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Swing the Microphone - submitted by SeesawSiya

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I’ll Always Search For You - submitted by meowstic-seer-of-the-future

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Notes on painting portraits with saturated color and early access to a new piece up on Patreon! 💫

The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.

To Think There Was a Time I Didn’t Know You - Submitted by SeesawSiya

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i’ve got these habits — a tony/bruce fanmix download 

“call it what you want” — foster the people you’re ducking and moving just to hide your bruises from all your enemies

“magdalena” — brandon flowers please don’t tell me i can’t make it, it ain’t gonna do me any good 

“witness blues” — a.a. bondy and once there was a time to join the army, and once there was a time to hear the news

“kiss with a fist” — florence & the machine you hit me once i hit you back you gave a kick i gave a slap

“little lion man” — mumford & sons weep, little lion man, you’re not as brave as you were at the start

“sins of my youth” — neon trees would you love me still if i were to confess that i had a little too much fun, back when i was young

“my body is a cage” — arcade fire my body is a cage that keeps me mrom dancing with the one i love

“you’re the one that i want” — angus and julia stone i got chills, they’re multiplying, and i’m losing control

“hawaii” — meiko and you can’t say that you’re seeing me if you don’t know who i am

“constant knot” — city and colour so stay the night i promise that i won’t bite, ‘cause without you there i don’t think i could close my eyes

“eyes wide open” — gotye so this is the end of the story, everything we had, everything we did, is buried in dust

“running up that hill” — placebo and if I only could, make a deal with God, and get him to swap our places

“salt skin” — ellie goulding you’re as bright as the sun and as bold as the moon, i don’t know when you’ll break but it’s gonna be soon

The State You Found Me In - submitted by SeesawSiya

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Band Camp - Submitted by semothekat

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