Wildlife portrait photographer from the UK.
I am active on English Wikipedia where I have 366 Featured pictures.

I have published a photographic guide to the butterflies of Ghana which is available as a free download. A print version will be published in April 2026.

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The first five editions of my free publications offer 100 wildlife photography tips and promote Wikipedia. The Read online links take you to a flipbook. You can access downloadable pdf versions by visiting the Sharp Eye on wildlife photography page.

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My web site is www.sharpphotography.co.uk which has links to animal galleries on Flickr. The latest edits and highest resolutions of my images are always here on Commons.
Many of my pictures are taken outside of the UK and the best ones will be in my galleries of
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Valued images (3,510).
Here is a link to my Featured Pictures promoted since 2022.
The quality of Valued Images may not be great, but are provided as reference images - the best Commons has at the moment.
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Featured Pictures on Commons by country
Move mouse over a red box (they can take a few seconds to load) to see each country. Click on the Featured pictures text.

Galleries of my featured pictures
mammals; birds; butterflies and moths; dragonflies; grasshoppers, other insects and spiders; reptiles, frogs and a fish

• 👁 mammals
  
  mammals
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  birds
• 👁 butterflies, moths
  
  butterflies, moths
• 👁 dragonflies, damselflies
  
  dragonflies, damselflies
• 👁 other insects, spiders and crabs
  
  other insects, spiders and crabs
• 👁 reptiles, frogs, fish
  
  reptiles, frogs, fish

Animal galleries from the world's Biogeographic realms
Western Palearcticː Europe, North Africa and the Near East (the western half of the Palearctic Realm).
Afrotropical Realmː Africa south of the Sahara and the south of the Arabian Peninsula.
Indomalayan Realmː Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia.
Oceaniaː includes the Australasian Realm and the Oceanian Realm.
Neotropical Realmː Caribbean, Central and South America.
Over 2600 animal species.

Mammal galleries

• 👁 50 mammal species from the Neotropical Realm
  
  50 mammal species
  from the Neotropical Realm
• 👁 27 mammal species from the Western Palearctic
  
  27 mammal species
  from the Western Palearctic
• 👁 119 mammal species from the Afrotropical Realm
  
  119 mammal species
  from the Afrotropical Realm
• 👁 51 mammal species from the Indomalayan Realm
  
  51 mammal species
  from the Indomalayan Realm
• 👁 20 mammal species from Oceania
  
  20 mammal species
  from Oceania

Bird galleries

• 👁 588 bird species from the Neotropical Realm
  
  588 bird species
  from the Neotropical Realm
• 👁 234 bird species from the Western Palearctic
  
  234 bird species
  from the Western Palearctic
• 👁 360 bird species from the Afrotropical Realm
  
  360 bird species
  from the Afrotropical Realm
• 👁 192 bird species from the Indomalayan Realm
  
  192 bird species
  from the Indomalayan Realm
• 👁 151 bird species from Oceania
  
  151 bird species
  from Oceania

Butterfly galleries

• 👁 268 butterfly species from the Neotropical Realm
  
  268 butterfly species
  from the Neotropical Realm
• 👁 161 butterfly species from the Western Palearctic
  
  161 butterfly species
  from the Western Palearctic
• 👁 260 butterfly species from the Afrotropical Realm
  
  260 butterfly species
  from the Afrotropical Realm
• 👁 176 butterfly species from the Indomalayan Realm
  
  176 butterfly species
  from the Indomalayan Realm
• 👁 13 butterfly species from Oceania
  
  13 butterfly species
  from Oceania

Dragonfly gallery

• 👁 52 dragonfly species from the Western Palearctic
  
  52 dragonfly species
  from the Western Palearctic

I have 366 Featured pictures on English Wikipedia.

Please feel free to use any of the wildlife photos that I have uploaded here, most of which are used in Wikipedia articles, with attribution Charles J Sharp. Please remember that images uploaded before 2020 may not have been processed with the latest software. I can quickly re-process them for you.
Males are marked and females
These animals were not photographed in zoos, safari parks, rescue centres, butterfly houses, in captivity or in a studio.
The older images are geocoded with very precise geocodes (six decimal places). Please do not take account of more than two decimal places.

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