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We have taken animals and nature for granted. We are so fixed in our 9 to 5 desk jobs living a robotic life that we have forgotten how breathtaking nature actually is. When you finally look into the details of some things, it will start to seem unreal. We need to connect to nature every once in a while. Spend some time with animals to feel at peace. Well, even if we can’t go out in the wild to appreciate nature at its finest, we can still count on photography. A picture speaks a thousand words, and you can really get lost in some photos if you look deep enough.
Some animals are hard to capture in the camera. Animals such as hyenas, crocodiles, or hippos are often just adored from a distance. However, photographer Suren Manvelyan has taken breathtaking photos of exotic animals. The photos are a closeup of their eyes. And let me tell you, it looks like something out of this world. You will be enchanted by these images. Scroll down below to see breathtaking photos that show how unique animal eyes are:
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It has eyelashes on the eyeball!
It looks like a glacier in Antarctica.
I can see galaxies.
Isn’t that a sunflower?
It looks like a photo of a canyon.
“I began thinking about this series after I completed a similar one about the human eye,” Manvelyan told Bored Panda. “After the first project, I had really improved in shooting eyes in any conditions, and eventually settled on the idea to photograph animal eyes.”
He photographed animals wherever he could find them. Zoos, his own backyard, oceanariums, you name it. “Sometimes, people even contact me, asking to shoot the eyes of their pets.”
Reminds me of algae.
That’s a black hole!
Looks like an iridescent opal.
This is breathtaking.
It’s a blue pearl!
“The eyes of every animal are the result of it adapting to its living conditions. That’s the reason why there are so many eye types. Water animals have completely different eyes than those living on earth, too. I think this is what makes the animal eye series so interesting to the viewer.”
This is quite similar to the lama.
This is somewhat unsettling.
An eye with canopy! Makes sense with the shiny water above.
The eye of Sauron.
That looks like a very scary eye for such an adorable creature.
It is quite a challenge for the photographer to capture pictures this close to the animal. For example, the lama eye took an hour of him trying to make the animal comfortable with him in a cage to get the perfect shot. “I would like to stress that all animals included in the series were alive and no animal was hurt in any way during shoots,” the photographer added.
Very similar to the human eye.
You can see a solar eclipse here.
That looks like a very weird cat-eye. Not the usual shape.
This is beautiful.
This looks pretty human too.
They have slit pupils just like cats.
It’s a compound eye or many eyes put together. It allows for vision in multiple spectrums but has poor vision quality.
This is a type of wild sheep.
So many bright colours!
This one looks a bit trippy.
A planet giving off radioactive waves.
I’m sorry, I can’t take this one seriously. It looks like a butt.
Isn’t this very dangerously close?
It has muted colours and a complex design in the iris.
Herd animals have similar eyes.
What did you see in these eyes? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
