Friday 4 September 2020

Armenian Photographer Captures Just How Unique Animal Eyes Are (30 Pics)

 Few people get a chance to photograph animals such as hippos, hyenas, or crocodiles. Suren Manvelyan, however, has managed to get so close to them, he even captured insanely detailed close-ups of their eyes.

Some of these macro shots look like landscapes of distant yet-to-be-discovered planets while others remind some sort of a portal to another dimension. But they all prove that the eyes really are the windows to the soul; analyzing the images you can't help but experience profound sensations, as if you're uncovering deeply personal secrets.

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Lama

Lama

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Perfumista Perfumista 3 days ago

Dang, even their eyeballs have lashes

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"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."

Manvelyan captured animals pretty much everywhere he could find them, from his backyard to zoos, oceanariums, and so on. "Sometimes, people even contact me, asking to shoot the eyes of their pets."

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Husky Dog

Husky Dog

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Raine Soo 3 days ago

The pupil looks like a dark pool in a frozen tundra.

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"The eyes of every animal is 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."

Manvelyan also started a game with his online followers. When he would upload a new photo, he'd ask his Facebook and Instagram fans to guess what species the eye belongs to. "Interestingly, it can become quite a tough challenge."

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Alaskian Malamut

Alaskian Malamut

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Being so close to animals, however, is a challenge of its own. For example, Manvelyan spent an hour with a llama in her cage, trying to make her familiar with him and to allow him to get within the required distance for the right 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.

He wouldn't disclose any technical aspects of these shoots as he spent a lot of time and effort perfecting the setup for this particular series, but said the most interesting part of it all was realizing that nearly all people have the same eye structure. "It doesn't matter if you are young or old, white or black."

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Long-Eared Owl

Long-Eared Owl

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Marissa Wyatt 3 days ago

wow, the texture on the eyes looks strange. this is so beautiful and i appreciate the person that took these greatly.

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#6 

Nylus Crocodile

Nylus Crocodile

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Tokay Gecko

Tokay Gecko

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Marissa Wyatt 3 days ago

the eye looks like a black hole!

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#8 

Rockfish Eye

Rockfish Eye

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cassiushumanmother 3 days ago

More RockEye fish



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Blue-Yellow Macaw Parrot

Blue-Yellow Macaw Parrot

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AMANDA SERRANO-MORALES 3 days ago

i thought it was bowl or something at first

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#10 

Porcupine Fish

Porcupine Fish

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#11 

Hippo

Hippo

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Camel

Camel

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Ray

Ray

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Rissie 3 days ago

An eye with canopy! Makes sense with the shiney water above.

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#14 

Chinchilla

Chinchilla

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Chimpanze

Chimpanze

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mph seti 3 days ago

Looks just like one of ours. Shouldn't be surprising.

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#17 

Anolis Lizard

Anolis Lizard

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AMYAH MINOTT-STARLING 3 days ago

the middle looks like what happens in a solar eclipse

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#18 

Gecko Eublepharis

Gecko Eublepharis

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Shelley Brown 2 days ago

Absolutely beautiful!

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#19 

Cat

Cat

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Danieletc 3 days ago

Not the shape of any cat eye I've seen.

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#21 

Black Rabbit

Black Rabbit

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Blue Crayfish

Blue Crayfish

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Darwinist 3 days ago

It's a compound eye or many eyes put together. It allows for vision in multiple spectrums but has poor vision quality.

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#23 

Discus Fish

Discus Fish

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Armenian Muflon

Armenian Muflon

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juice 3 days ago

i didn't know what that was so i looked it up. it's a type of wild sheep50d8531e88bd0.jpg

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#25 

Coral Zebra Fish

Coral Zebra Fish

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Thomas Register 3 days ago

Looks like the dark stripe goes right through the eyeball.

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#26 

Husky Dog

Husky Dog

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Denise Mclean 1 day ago

Nice Eye, looks like a planet with some kind of burst or radiation all around it .

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#27 

Garden Boa, Python

Garden Boa, Python

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Tiger Python (Non Albino)

Tiger Python (Non Albino)

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Ninja Kitty 3 days ago

HOW DID YOU GET SO CLOSE TO THIS BEAUTIFUL TIGER PYTHON WITHOUT IT HURTING YOU -cough- but that's a really Cool looking eye

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David's Deer

David's Deer

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NWB 2 days ago

seems to be a common eye for heard animals



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