Here are some pretty wild (forgive the pun) photos from camera traps. I'm so fascinated with some of these photos that I'm on the verge of getting one of these.
There is something interesting about these photos in that these are animals that are so rare or hard to approach that a manned camera is either impractical or - in the case of the strange, very endangered and appropriately shy African cheetah - impossible. There is both the element that these cameras can sit in one place for weeks at a time and faithfully monitor the area directly in front of them with an inhuman level of reliability. And that a person's presence would impact the subject making the photo impossible.
They are also interesting in the 'vernacular' photo sense in that they are not created for aesthetics but they do stand up in that realm. The exception to this is the Iberian wolf in the last photo which is a well received wildlife photo taken with a camera trap. Also, the idea that the 'creative' element is no longer in the photo-taking (the framing, exposure, fluffing the subject etc.) but in the editing - selecting from thousands of photographs the one informative photo.
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