Crikey!
If you read the title of this post you're are probably doing a double-take. This post is indeed about the son of the late Steve Irwin, aka the crocodile hunter. Although Robert looks like his father and shares the same love of animals and conservation as him and the rest of his family, Robert stands out from his family in the fact that he has an artistic eye for photography. He is actually quite well known for his photos and has been featured and published many times on places like ABC News, New.com, and several others just to name a few. He has also won several awards for his work, and his work has gone to great lengths to not only raise awareness for conservation but has also raised thousands of dollars for his family's nonprofit Wildlife Warriors. It is easy to say that he is following in his dad's footsteps, but by blazing his own trail.
I grew up watching Steve Irwin on TV and was always fascinated with his shows. I guess you could call me a bit of a fangirl. However, my fascination with the work that Robert produces does not steam from my childhood love of his dad's TV show. I truly love the unique qualities of his photos, the most prominent of which is how close he actually shows the animals. I personally love creating lose up photos like this in my own work, and I love that he is able to do it with animals that one would not normally be willing to get that close to, such as a crocodile. Being that close though, allows the viewer to delve deeper into the wildlife, seeing the texture of the fur, scales, or skin, seeing the animals eyes clearly, all of this is extremely powerful and provides the viewers with an unusually closer look at the photographed wildlife.https://www.robertirwinphotos.com/
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