According to Randy Robbins, camera trapping requires a lot of patience, and most of the photos you get aren’t going to be newsworthy. With time and persistence, though, you might get some brilliant shots that make all the effort worth it. Robbins recently shared his 2025 camera-trap “year in review”—16 of his favorite photos from the past 365 days.
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“Camera trapping always feels like a very slow, losing endeavor, until you go back through a year’s worth of photos and realize that it wasn’t all failure,” Robbins wrote in his Facebook post sharing the images. “16 photos worthy of sharing in 365 days . . . that’s . . . yeah, it’s a pretty slow, losing endeavor. If it were easy everyone would be doing it.”
Robbins’ round up includes bobcats, squirrels, coyotes, and even a pine marten in Lassen Volcanic National Park (the area in northern California where he’s based). My personal favorite, though, is a backlit gray fox on a log.
See this photographer’s best-of-2025 camera-trap photos here:
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